He has snazzy undergarments.
Posted on 04/08/2010 2:32:54 PM PDT by iowamark
Glenn Beck and radio pals Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere rattled down the list of potential Republican nominees for President in 2012 this morning, and they had some bad news for the Tea Party movement: Sarah Palin probably won’t run, Ron Paul is still and long shot, and Mitt Romney, as of now, is the GOP’s best bet.
While Gray and Burguiere are harsh to most of the candidates, Beck spreads the love around. He tells his co-hosts that he likes Palin but doesn’t think she will run, Bobby Jindal but doesn’t think he has the charisma, and Congressman Paul but doesn’t think America is ready for him. Then, at the bottom of the pile, he finds Mitt Romney:
"I have to tell you that Mitt Romney could be the only guy that could win, and I don’t know if he could because I think that Americans are going to be I mean, this country is going to be in deep trouble by 2012, and the next term, if it’s not decided this term, the next term will decide our fate. Then I hope that Americans are ready for an adult and are ready for hard news."
It’s a strange, possibly sad conclusion from someone who had called Romney out for “flirting with socialism,” but ultimately Beck was trying to determine who could win, not who he thought should. If Beck was playing process of elimination, which he clearly was, it’s hard to refute his conclusion that Romney is the least likely candidate to crash and burn in a general election, if only for being a conservative from the most liberal state of America and having moderate successes like universal health care under his belt. Or– and this one is for you conspiracy theorists out there– maybe Beck is intentionally downplaying the Republican candidates’ ability to success so as to clear the brush and become the reluctant right-wing candidate by default. After all, he is the second-most popular human being in America. (Link to a Harris poll: Glenn Beck is the second most popular television personality in America… second only to Oprah Winfrey.)
Listen to the segment below:
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If Romney was given the nod last time, Obama would have never set foot in the White House and you would all get to see how wrong you are about him.
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You are kidding, right?
NO WAY would Romney (with the 1978 priesthood revelation hanging over him) been able to compete with a black man running for president who was already playing the ‘race card’.
Media would have a field day.
He has snazzy undergarments.
so, in other words.....If Romney is nominated, hypothetically, Y’all would allow Obama another term?
Mormons always stick together.
But that's kind of irrelevant. If you think Romney will be the nominee, go for it.
You can mark down my prediction now: we haven't yet seen the 2012 GOP nominee really on the scene. I don't think it will be either Palin or Romney, and probably not Pawlenty or Thune. It could be someone as unlikely as Scott Brown, but more likely someone really not in the public eye yet.
Doing as fine as one can... in the obamadepression. I’ll bet it is weird to go back to a country that was enslaved and is now is fighting to be free while dims in this country fight to enslave us. Be safe my friend and stay in touch! GOD bless.
LLS
Gosh, I've never heard that before. You've almost convinced me to vote for the leftist, global warmist, baby killing, moonbat, gun grabbing, cap and tax voting moron Kirk.
By commenting that Romney could win he gives the idea credibility.
Not in my eyes. I don’t want to live under socialized medicine. Actually at 73 I would actually die under socialized medicine.
Are you EVER going to admit that Joseph Smith LIED when he said that he 'learned' that PRESBYTERIANism was UNTRUE?
Too bad that the Founder and early leaders of MORMONism did NOT do these things!!
On February 16, 1849, Brigham Young stated to the Twelve, “As God was, so are we now; as he is now, so shall we be.” (Manuscript History.)
One of the greatest blessings of the restored gospel is the knowledge that we can become perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect.
We know that through living certain principles we can approach perfection.
In fact we are told that by taking the gospel to others and bringing them to repentance, by doing genealogy and temple work, and by living Christ-like lives, we can come to stand as saviors on Mount Zion.
By freely giving his life, Christ, and Christ alone, atoned for all mankind.
We have the opportunity of aiding others to accept his love and his sacrifice—the gift of the atonement—and thereby aid in the work of exalting the human family, becoming saviors on Mount Zion.
Becoming a savior for others is not an easy task...
You mean that MORMONs won't VOTE?
His speech was less than poor. He is like Howdy Doody. He has no chance.
Personally, I would vote in every other ballot line and skip the Presidential line unless there were a good third-party candidate. It is a fairly meaningless gesture on my part since if Romney really needed my vote in Kansas, he would be in the process of being creamed in huge landslide.
Unfortunately, for Romney, I know dozens of conservatives in Kansas who held their nose and voted for McCain and who supported Bob Dole only because he was a native son but who have drawn the line on Romney. Whether this is due to Romney's Mormonism or liberalism or both, I'm not sure but I have found few conservatives who will vote for Romney even as a last resort.
“HUH? I wrote on my blog in AUGUST that it would pass. Perhaps I got overly enthusiastic, but I warned here repeatedly that the Dems would suffer a serious defeat if it meant getting non-health-care passed. It appears I was entirely right.”
Yes, LS. No one ever predicted Health Care would pass by Democrat majorities in both houses back in August. At Free Republic, there was not one single post who ever thought Health Care would pass. There were no drama queens on Free Republic. Oh no. But one lone figure in the wilderness, the brilliant and amazing LS, alone, “predicted” it.
Sarcasm aside, every other drama queen on Free Republic “predicted” it as well. My problem with you is that you made a thread titled “The Wheels are Coming Off” and you declared that health care wouldn’t pass. And you are so vain to hoist yourself up as some sort of prophet that you think you said something in your blog no one else did (but everyone was saying at the time) and then you pretend you didn’t predict the opposite just months ago.
You are not being intellectually honest. I expected more from you.
“But that’s kind of irrelevant. If you think Romney will be the nominee, go for it.”
I think Palin will be the nominee.
“You can mark down my prediction now: we haven’t yet seen the 2012 GOP nominee really on the scene. I don’t think it will be either Palin or Romney, and probably not Pawlenty or Thune. It could be someone as unlikely as Scott Brown, but more likely someone really not in the public eye yet.”
You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Running for President is extremely expensive and you must start years ahead. I was near the last Republican to be president, George W. Bush.
When he ran for re-election for governor of Texas in 1998, the Lamestream Media pounced on him and tried to make it an issue that he would run for president so Texans should not vote for him. Presidential candidates are definitely recognized a couple years from when they run. They have to be. It takes years to get a campaign going. Karl Rove even on TV told Palin that if she wants to be President she needs to start getting the campaign together now.
Obama was a nationally known figure in 2006.
McCain was a nationally known figure in 2006, of course. For the 2000 election, Al Gore was, of course, already known. W. Bush was very visibly making plans to run for President as soon as he got re-elected for Governor (which the media kept going bananas over him about). In 1996, Dole was pretty much an old guy and known (at least in the RINO circles).
A presidential run is nothing like a senate run. It is not a jack-in-the-box where a candidate pops up from nowhere. It only seems like that to people do not pay attention.
What governor out there is going to make a run for the president? We know a senator isn’t going to make it and the GOP doesn’t have many senators anyway. Romney will likely try to run but his health care has pretty much imploded his chances. It certainly isn’t going to be someone on the outside like Petraus.
From being close to a presidential campaign, I can say that what matters is the energy being done at the stump speeches on the trail. Bush was a pretty good campaigner and was definitely treated like a ‘rock star’ prior to his running.
Palin is the only one I can see who has the identical charisma that I saw Bush initially campaign with. However, Palin has it in far greater droves. She is also making all the moves that I recall Bush making prior to his eventual run. Bush, as governor, kept making himself be the ‘Anti-Clinton’. You’d have thought Bush was some extreme conservative back then.
The point is that anyone who wants to become president must be putting together an organization two years, at least, prior to the election. I see Palin doing this. I see Romney doing this. I don’t see anyone else visibly doing this.
You keep saying that a mystery presidential candidate is going to magically appear when you know this does not occur in modern American politics. Obama was very famous in 2006. McCain was always famous even back in 2000. W Bush was famous enough to have the media attack him for presidential ambitions back in 1998. Hillary Clinton was always known for her presidential ambitions even when she was a First Lady.
All your talk of ‘jack-in-box presidential candidate’ is just wishful thinking because you are scared of Palin.
And, no, not a lot of "drama queens" on FR predicted health care would pass: every day I saw a different thread that said that this or that obstacle would prevent it---that the House would never go along with the Senate bill, that the "conservative" blue-dogs would never pass it in the Senate, blah, blah. But I'm flattered you managed to remember one of my columns.
Let's talk again after the 2012 primaries are over. (I will actually be surprised if Palin even runs, let alone wins).
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