Posted on 09/21/2009 7:57:27 PM PDT by arkadyka
Here is a short clip of Glenn Beck in his usual quirky and odd fashion telling Katie Couric that McCain would have been worse for the country than Obama. I have actually said this and maybe even written it as soon as Obama got elected. On it's face, a progressive hardcore leftist like Obama is dangerous especially in conjunction with the likes of Pelosi and Reid. However, McCain would have been very dangerous for the same reason Bush was dangerous to the right. To truly appreciate what I think Beck is trying to say hinges on the understanding of America's propensity to label incorrectly and make brash conclusions. Americans do not seem to understand that 'Republican' is just a political label and the ideology differs dramatically within the party. Some Republicans are actually more liberal than Democrats on issues that truly matter.
Bush expanded government faster than Clinton ever did, spent like a drunken sailor and brushed aside conservative/libertarian ideals as if they no longer mattered. He felt his compassionate conservatism was the movement that people wanted, but the people rejected this movement meanwhile not understanding that the very thing they were rejecting -- was liberalism. McCain would have further exacerbated this tragic misunderstanding and would have driven the GOP so far into the ground that come 2012 we would have candidates making Obama look like a moderate. That aside, what we are experiencing now is extremely scary - a liberal tsunami is washing over our country. Between the Stimulus, Cap and Trade, Health Reform, racial overtones, ACORN/NEA scandals, GM takeover, foreign debacles and defense cuts there is a constant sense of pressure, something we would not experience with McCain. Yet it's this very same complacency that allowed Bush to sneak his liberalism under the guise of conservatism which ultimately resulted in Obama.
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good form, well done!
*Ping!*
And now watch us nominate Huckabee in 2012. Mr compassionate conservative the 2nd.
Any pro-life conservative who would consider voting for Obama-Biden over McCain-Palin, is cracked.
Oh, I totally agree with Beck - McCain would have been worse than Obama. No doubt about it. It would have taken longer - a long drawn out affair - for McCain to destroy the country. It would have been more painful. Obama is destroying us real fast.
Had he won, WE would have been blamed for all this stuff the Dems are trying to shove down everyone's throat.
McCain would have made conservatives seem even worse (by claiming that he is one).
But he is for the flat tax! He has got to be conservative! /s
No effing way. Totally inept analysis. There is no way he would have signed that Porkulus bill and he would not be weakening our national security. We would not be in such dire economic straights. Now mind you, we would have to fight him constantly as he reached across the aisle and screwed us and such.
“Glenn Beck is right, McCain would have been worse than Obama...in theory.”
Hard to imagine, in theory....
Is it by accident that the American people are given no realistic choice at all, in theory.
Rab
Don’t be so brash my man, read carefully - I specifically said we would not have those things with McCain. But we would have all sorts of other issues.
Pro-life Clinton.
McCain would have totally destroyed any possibility of a conservative comeback for decades! Republicans would have been tarred with the devastation we see happening in DC!
“Would have” takes us into the realm of speculation. I kind of doubt it, actually, but that’s speculation too.
Leaving U.S. borders wide open for "God's children" to come and go as they please isn't "weakening our national security"?
Beck was off on this one.
It’s a paradox. McCain would have been a better president, but worse for the country, long term, as he drove the Republican Party to the left, leading to a schism with conservatives, and perhaps a replica of the Bull Moose Party, which would have led to Democratic majorities for decades.
This is Beck’s clumsy way of saying that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
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