Posted on 08/22/2015 8:28:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative American talk show host Glenn Beck has slammed frontrunner Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying he is a false conservative.
Beck, a former member of the Republican Party, said in an interview on Saturday, “I haven’t heard him talk about the Constitution or small government.”
“It’s hard to say you espouse conservative principles and small-government principles when you are saying that you think [the] Canadian health care system works and is wonderful,” he added.
“I look for a man of integrity, humility, who is rooted in the Constitution,” Beck stated, “because if you root yourself in the Constitution, we can’t go too far left or too far right.”
Trump has maintained a lead among GOP presidential contenders in national polling since he announced his candidacy in mid-July.
A Rasmussen poll released Friday found that a majority of Republican voters (57 percent) believe Trump will be their party’s nominee for president in 2016. Among all likely voters, 49 percent believe Trump is likely to win the GOP nomination, up from 23 percent two months ago.
“He is not a politician,” Beck declared. “He is saying the populist things right now.”
“I think what’s happening with Bernie Sanders with the left is the same thing that’s happening with Donald Trump,” he opined, referring to the independent presidential candidate seeking Democratic nomination.
“They want somebody to say it the way they think it – especially if they say it in a non-politically correct way,” the former Fox News pundit asserted.
Earlier this year, Beck announced to quit the Republican Party, saying he has become disillusioned with the Republicans in recent years over their failure to stand up to the Obama administration over a number of issues.
“All this stuff that they said and they ran and they said they were doing all of these great things and they were going to stand against ObamaCare and illegal immigration — they set us up,” Beck stated.
He accused the Republicans of “torpedoing the Constitution” and said that “they’re doing it knowingly.”
The founder of the Blaze said that he decided to leave the Republican Party because of its resistance to change.
As many as 17 Republicans are seeking their party’s nomination for president but only Trump, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker are considered serious contenders.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is competing against only three Democrats and Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party's nomination. Only Sanders is considered at all competitive in the early primaries.
Who says he did? PFC Bradley “Chelsea” Manning gives interviews and pens columns from Leavenworth.
Yeah....Iran will already have $150 Billion gift with the Iran deal by the time Trump gets in the white house. AT that point only thing Trump can do is police the pact.
Press TV is an Iranian, English language news channel, sort of like Al Jazeera. Google it, you can watch it online.
“I heard the back and forth with Hannity on Hannity’s show on the radio on Friday.”
I did too. I’d rather be waterboarded than endure another one of their conversations.
How did conservatism go from William F Buckley and Firing Line to the Hannity and Beck three ring circus? The only thing missing was peanuts and elephants.
Who can trust ANYBODY? The only reasons I had left for voting GOP were to stop amnesty, stop fag-marriage, and stop Obamacare. And they failed on all three. Not only failed, but in most cases didn’t even try, or even worse, collaborated with the enemy.
Why shouldn’t I throw in with Trump? There’s no longer an America left that I even care to preserve, much less a Republican Party. It might seem a gamble. But what kind of gamble is it when there is no longer anything to lose?
Glenn, it is you who are the fake.
What strange disorder is it you have this week? Oh, I’m sorry I made you cry...
I want a Magic 8 Ball loaded with nick’s favorite posts about Trump.
Glenn Beck has gone Looney Tunes in 2015. He doesn’t know minute-to-minute if he is a preacher or a pimp. Cancelled TheBlaze subscription when I realized that it was just throwing good money after bad. Can’t even listen to his schizoid radio show with his drooling sidekicks anymore.
Sad...this could have been his time to capitalize and consolidate his media empire with Trump breaking all the china. But no, he is now a traveling preacher. Go figure.
What! I thought Beck didn’t want to talk about Trump! Ha! Guess he thought he better say something instead of being the only one not saying anything about the
Donald Dominance!
Ah yes, Glenn Beck, the man who went to the border to give Teddy Bears to the illegals.
“But no, he is now a traveling preacher.”
Glenn Beck is what happens when you toss the Book of Mormon and Elmer Gantry into a blender and hit the juice button.
Was he crying when he said this?
“Beck is wrong. Trump isn’t even a false conservative. He’s a liberal socislist.”
FAIL
I get a kick out of many who proclaim Trump is not a conservative, or is a false conservative. So why are they powerless to elect a “true conservative” as president?
Don’t we have lot of conservatives in congress now? What exactly have these “true conservatives” accomplished?
Abortion outlawed?
National debt reduced?
Obamacare scrapped?
Illegals deported?
Wall built?
I have not seen any conservative agenda transformed into laws. If Trump can deliver 3 or more of above, he is more than enough conservative for me and most rational people.
Well said.
Beck is demonstrably correct about Trump’s positions. He is the most liberal candidate in the GOP race. With a history of shifting opinions like he has, anything he saying right now wouldn’t carry with him into office. He’ll flip flop bigger than anybody you’ve ever seen.
Yeah, that was heinous. He can always rely on his astroturf though. :’)
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