Anyways, In the *FULL* commentary, Beck has said that if McCain were president, the tea party movement wouldn't have happened or wouldn't have been as large.
McCain still would've delivered us to all these international treaties.
We'd have had cap and trade by now.
We'd have had amnesty by now.
There wouldn't be congressional republicans standing up to a president mccain like there is now with them standing up to president obama.
I have a feeling(again, defending levin) that Levin would agree with all of these sentiments.
A pregressive president like McCain would have destroyed the conservative movement for decades. Something that Obama simply cannot do.
And if you don't think McCain is a progressive? Just ask him who his hero is and he'll tell you that it's Teddy Roosevelt. A progressive. Know the heroes, know the individual.
This may contain some of what I just talked about. The context of the mccain comment.
The more I listen to Levin, the less I like him. His realm of the conservative movement is becoming irrelevant while Beck is literally knocking on Rush’s door in terms of importance. Let Levin and his boytoy Vannity repeat the same cliched phrases all day long, the rest of us have principals to uphold.
Levin is just jealous that Beck rises in popularity while he toils away on his lame radio show parroting safe GOP talking points in that obnoxious voice of his.
Mark Levin's problem with Glenn BeckBeck's increasing popularity and effectiveness?
I myself toned town my criticism of McQueeg once he won the nomination. That doesn’t make him any less of an ACORN/SEIU supporting Soros puppet.
Katie Couric must be very happy that she has been able to expose a small rift in the conservative movement. As for whether McCain would be a worse president than Obama, I would respectfully disagree with Beck. I cannot think of anyone more destructive to core, founding American principles(except possibly FDR), However, this is a moot point so it serves no purpose to debate this if we want to advance the cause of conservatism. Likewise with the discussion of whether the conservative cause would be better or worse without a less striking counterpoint to conservatism such as Obama is also moot.
What we need to do is take over the Republican party. Our movement must act as the king makers for Republican candidates. Third parties have always fared poorly in American politics. We all know the story of the Bull Moose party which gave us one of Beck’s favorite progressives: Woodrow Wilson. We all remember Ross Perot’s gift of 8 years of Clinton.
You can’t build a winning major league team without a viable farm system. An independent or third party President would not be be supported by any party. Let’s learn from the Democrats. After all the uber leftists took over the Democrat party, right?
Come to think of it, perhaps, George Soros will covertly fund a right of center third party to ensure the one party totalitarian Democrat state.
Not to worry dear hearts, Mitt Romney will ride to the rescue!
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Just joking kids.
Beck is a grandstander who has successfully reported some revealing things.
He is still wrong.
While I don’t care much for McCain and only supported him because of Sarah Palin and the real fear of Obama, if he had won the presidency our Troops would not be sitting in Afghanistan wondering whether or not the CIC gives a damn about them!
In fact as predicted, Obama has done nothing but strengthen the conservative movement! Although, believing this does not change the reality McCain would have made a better POTUS.
Your point however, is a valid beyond all doubt. Please I'm begging you, my fellow conservatives, no more rino's!!!!
Sorry, but Beck is making the common mistake of confusing his own self interest with the county’s interest.
Had McCain won:
1. There would have been less of a stimulus budget buster.
2. There would be no attempt at government takeover of health insurance nor health care.
3. There would have been truther czar for Beck to go after.
4. There would be no doubt that the US would stay the course in Afghanistan.
5. There would have been no attempt at a cap and trade tax increase during a recession.
6. The public would not have been as concerned with the ACORN tapes as ACORN would have been further from influence. Still I think this one because of the child sex slavery would have caught the eye of the American public.
7. Though he voted against them, McCain would be arguing not to raise taxes during a recession by letting the Bush tax rate cuts expire.
8. The latest Supreme Court Justice would not be Sotomayor though I admit McCain might have disappointed us still.
9. The NEA would not be pressuring artist to do project supportive of the administration.
10. Eastern Europe would still be getting its missle defense.
11. Our foreign policywould be more than an apology.
BTW, the tea party protester etc would all still exist. The potential of the American public has always been there. The American public arises when needed. Had McCain been elected, the potential would have still been there. Beck might not have been as famous. You might not have met your latest boy/girl friend at a tea party protest, but that is individual interest not interst of the US.
I like Levin. Don’t dislike Beck, but don’t prefer his “schtick”. Regardless, they have more in common than they disagree on.
I think this is just a matter of The Week following thay age old strategy of setting conservatives against conservatives.
I voted for Palin ~ have no love for McCain ~ the Ancient One would have been a much better president than Obama.
We just had another had another “familycide” in my county; husband kills wife, 2 kids, dog and self. I’ll give the Dems another stripe for that.
When will the media start the count on Obamacides?
I listen to Mark and I have only heard him opine about Hannity. So, it doesn’t surprise me that he finds fault with another conservative commentator. Sometimes it seems it just may be their ego that if suffering. I heard the the Glenn Beck response and I totally agree with it. Take a backseat Mark, Glenn is driving this bus.
The left are going after Beck, not Levin. That speaks volumes about who they view as a threat.
They attack Rush too. And Palin. They could care less about McCain.
Levin should focus on the real problems-not Glenn Beck. Conservatives/libertarians should stop analyzing other conservatives/libertarians.
Mark has been picking a lot of fights lately, frankly I don’t really understand it, unless it’s to try and get some attention??? Beck is just the latest and it disappoints me in Mark greatly... he is doing the same thing Savage did and caused me to stop listening to his program, I don’t like personal attacks on other commentators — I don’t like it when MSNBC allows their people to do it nightly against Fox and I don’t like it when commentators like Savage or Levin do it against other radio/TV commentators... it’s petty and small.
The Week should be renamed The Weak. I read their article and learned absolutely nothing. It was poorly written and showed a picture of Beck next to a picture of a guy that’s certainly not Mark Levin. It’s not even Carl Levin or Harvey Levin.
Besides, no one’s mind is going to be changed as a result of a weak-sauce article like that.