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Glenn Beck is right, McCain would have been worse than Obama...in theory.
Right Condition ^ | 9/21/2009 | arkady

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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1 posted on 09/21/2009 7:57:28 PM PDT by arkadyka
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2 posted on 09/21/2009 7:58:33 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (So many Communists, so little time.)
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To: rabscuttle385

good form, well done!


3 posted on 09/21/2009 8:00:23 PM PDT by arkadyka
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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...Yet it's this very same complacency that allowed Bush to sneak his liberalism under the guise of conservatism which ultimately resulted in Obama.

*Ping!*

4 posted on 09/21/2009 8:00:29 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (So many Communists, so little time.)
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To: arkadyka

And now watch us nominate Huckabee in 2012. Mr compassionate conservative the 2nd.


5 posted on 09/21/2009 8:00:51 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: arkadyka

Any pro-life conservative who would consider voting for Obama-Biden over McCain-Palin, is cracked.


6 posted on 09/21/2009 8:02:14 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: arkadyka

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.


7 posted on 09/21/2009 8:03:00 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: arkadyka
I agree.

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).

8 posted on 09/21/2009 8:03:13 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Brett66

But he is for the flat tax! He has got to be conservative! /s


9 posted on 09/21/2009 8:04:08 PM PDT by Dan Nunn (Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise. -The Great One)
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To: rabscuttle385

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.


10 posted on 09/21/2009 8:04:59 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: arkadyka

“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


11 posted on 09/21/2009 8:06:21 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: KC_Conspirator

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.


12 posted on 09/21/2009 8:08:26 PM PDT by arkadyka
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To: Brett66

Pro-life Clinton.


13 posted on 09/21/2009 8:08:49 PM PDT by Rodebrecht (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: Saundra Duffy
Agreed!

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!

14 posted on 09/21/2009 8:08:54 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: arkadyka

“Would have” takes us into the realm of speculation. I kind of doubt it, actually, but that’s speculation too.


15 posted on 09/21/2009 8:09:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: KC_Conspirator; arkadyka
and he would not be weakening our national security.

Leaving U.S. borders wide open for "God's children" to come and go as they please isn't "weakening our national security"?

16 posted on 09/21/2009 8:10:14 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (So many Communists, so little time.)
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To: capt. norm
WE would have been blamed for all this stuff the Dems are trying to shove

HOW could that be? There wouldn't be 'all this stuff' by the rats.

by claiming that he is one

Since when? McCain hasn't claimed himself a conservative. He chose one *Palin* to balance the ticket.
17 posted on 09/21/2009 8:11:20 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: rabscuttle385
McCain would have disappointed in several ways, however he would not be taking us full speed toward socialism and he would definitely support the troops and prosecute the WOT.

Beck was off on this one.

18 posted on 09/21/2009 8:13:01 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: arkadyka

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.


19 posted on 09/21/2009 8:13:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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To: arkadyka

This is Beck’s clumsy way of saying that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.


20 posted on 09/21/2009 8:14:12 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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