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.
And if McCain started to reach across the aisle, Palin says, ‘hell no’!
Tancredo was talking about McCain presidency being worse for the country on 850 tonight... they must have compared notes. But he made some very valid points.
We would have amnesty. We would have a healthcare bill that openly provided assistance to illegal immigrants. All in the name of reaching across the aisle. And because a republican would be pushing these initiatives, there would be no way to stop them.
I am not so sold on not being able to stop them; Bush was stopped on a few things.
I agree. Another crappy RINO to drag us further down the path of socialism while pretending to be a conservative would be worse for America than Obama.
God, I hope not. And Romney wouldn’t be any better.
Sarah 2012.
And of course the wires are now running wild with it...
Beck: McCain would have been worse.
Beck: America better off with Obama.
Thanks, Glenn.
Exactly correct.
Let's face it, the existing power structures, Democrat *and* RINO, need to be burned to the ground, and the ground salted so that things like that never spring up in America again. And nobody can crash this train faster than Barry Dunham Soetoro The Last, heading up his Treason Party in both houses.
No way McQueeg would have been worse because he would have had to work with an opposition congress. He would have been bad, but not as bad as Obama, certainly on security and defense matters.
Yeah, what he said.
Ronald Reagan was the LAST TRULY CONSERVATIVE POTUS, and then, it got worse for all of conservatism from there, with the exception of a very temporary boost for all of conservatism in early 1995.
I disagree very strongly with the premise. John McCain wants only the best for our country as it now exists. Obama wants the best for a very far left country which exists in his head - he hates the country as it now exists.
The US would be much better off with McCain as Prez.
I was saying this well over a year ago.
Yeah, but the opposition congress would only offer opposition on those issues that McCain wasn't completely in bed with them on. McCain would do less damage than Obama while in the White House, but he would have potentially set us up for Dem gains in 2010 and an Obama landslide in 2012. Same outcome, but with 4 years to make the groundwork even more favorable for socialism. I don't really see an outcome in the 2008 race that wouldn't leave us screwed in an alley. All we can do is try to be part of a major anti-Dem backlash in 2010 and 2012. And today, for that matter.
If the world doesn’t end as the Aztec’s, the Mayan’s, The Fatima prophecy, Nostradamus and Jesus maybe predicted (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK_zh-X21f0) at the end of Obama’s first term (Dec 20, 2012) I agree.
Obama will be as Rush said recently “The Democrats Waterloo”.
I said this in January but I don’t forget the above caveat.
There. Fixed it for ya. :)
Bush had kept us safe after 9/11 until his last day in office, while Obama is annihilating our defense system and undermining sound foreign policy. He is cutting funding for defense and the armed forces, while increasing funding everywhere else. Obama favors dictators and enemies of America, and his policies weaken our economy, safety, privacy, and social and cultural values.
McCain, with all his faults, isn't a communist. He fought communists, while Obama's friends bombed the pentagon, and his other acquaintances are racists and communists sympathizers.
No wonder you'll never be number one, Beck: you need to get your facts straight!
‘McCain would have been worse for the country than Obama’...........The only people happy to have McCain run for office in 2008 were employed by the MSM.There is no doubt in my mind that they wanted a Mondale type loss. Mc Cain prevented that with Palin as his running mate. I don’t think he ever anticipated that she would take the spot light away from him.
McCain loves to side with the democrats, and hates republican philosophy. He would have set us back and we could not blame it on the democrats....No tea parties, no march on washington, no raising up of republ. and democrat grass roots......the only thing good he could have done after getting in the office would be to die and leave Palin at the helm...
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