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:
Ouch! Well done. Everyone who doesn’t support Mitt (to some people) are ‘anti-Mormon bigots’ or want Zero for a second term. You will get used to the name-calling.
And if you are vocal about Romney then the attacks get worse, even if it is PURELY for his politics (which is almost always the case). It is similar to the LDS claim that anyone who leaves the Mormon church MUST be at fault themselves rather than having valid reasons. Anyone who doesn’t support Romney MUST be an anti-mormon bigot rather than having valid reasons.
I will admit to being an apostate of the LDS church and anti-mormonISM. I am even a proud member of the Flying Inmans here on FR. But the reasons I don’t like Romney have nothing to do with his Mormonism.
Resty sent you a ‘nastygram’? The one she sent me wasn’t that bad.
It was a guess, not an accusation. And if you hadn’t sent such a nasty FReepmail, I might have said something nicer.
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Ya the spirit of pride has suckered me too!
... and it was not nasty to imply online “it starts with an r and ends in a u” which means you were implying your contempt
I have friends and I don’t always agree with what they say therefore I don’t blindly go along as you seem to do!
There are principles beyond personal emotion attachments and doing the right thing is one of them.
reaganaut and I pushes each other buttons because that is the nature of the topic but she also has principles when sometime is not correct.
*Waving hand in front of face, swatting away the annoyance*
It’s not coherent. Just rambling, IMHO.
Yes, and followed it up with more slams on my character. It's not worth it to me to counter any of those slams as I can see where the true bigotry lies and the effort would be futile.
I will admit to being an apostate of the LDS church and anti-mormonISM. I am even a proud member of the Flying Inmans here on FR.
After the experiences I've had with a couple of these Romneybots here the last couple of days, I just may have to join the Flying Inmans.
As a Christian, I definitely don't believe LDS teachings, but that was never the reason I was opposed to Romney. I'm equally opposed to Ron Paul and some other RINOs.
I am disgusted that these people try to tar us with the "bigot" brush simply because we don't support Romney's leftist ideology.
Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When discussing those born in the U.S. to foreign parents, the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), applies. In it, the Supreme Court ruled that a person becomes a citizen of the United States at the time of birth, by virtue of the first clause of the 14th amendment of the Constitution if that person is born in the United States, even if he or she has parents that are subjects of a foreign power (as long as they are not in any diplomatic or official capacity of that foreign power), if the parents have permanent domicile and residence in the United States. Therefore, since Jindal was born here to non-diplomat parents who lived here, he is a natural-born citizen.
If we go to whether somebody born outside the U.S. is a citizen (Obama), then citizenship is a matter of the law in effect when the birth occurred. For Obama, that law is the one in effect between 1952 and 1986. Since one of his parents was a U.S. citizen when the person in question was born, the citizen parent lived at least ten years in the United States before the child's birth, and a minimum of 5 of these 10 years in the United States were after the citizen parent's 14th birthday, Obama really is a natural-born citizen, too.
Sorry, birthers. I wanted to believe, but I did the research. Yes, the traditional law of nations used the father's citizenship, but that assumed legitimate birth - a question in Obama's parentage, to some. However, the Constitution gives Congress power to "establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" as it did in 1790. Since most of the Framers were still in Congress then, it's absurd to claim that the Naturalization Act of 1790 (or the subsequent 1952 act) might be unconstitutional. Both Obama and Jindal are natural-born citizens, eligible to be President of the United States.
No I am pushing keeping Obama away from a second term.
OR? Wow what an admission. I am for the Word of God AND freedom.
You are pushing a scum bag when you push Mitt Romney.
Romney would assure Republican losses all the way down the ticket.
I agree that Beck can be pretty good sometimes but then there are other times. When Beck begins his "amorphous philosophizing" I switch stations. I work in academe and lameness like this would be correctly labeled as psuedo-intellectual nonsense. Actually, there's a cruder term that would be used but I'll spare you all.
Actually, I see Glenn Beck as the current interation in a long line of the "Next Rush" who have their moment in the sun and then fade away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_England_Primer
use in America untill 1906 look at the school book pass it out to the American
Susan's sister sent someone to call a local minister experienced in such matters. Some desperate part of my brain wondered if we should also call the campus priest. I wanted the full authority of the Church to confront this demon, or whatever was causing this horrible scene. I wanted the priest to bring the Eucharist and watch the spirits fall before the power of Christ's Real Presence. But I was scared. I wondered what would happen if the Eucharist did nothing and the priest was helpless. What if the consecrated Bread was just bread? What if the Church had no power over the cause of Susan's bizarre behavior? I was unable to pray and too frightened to test my Church's spiritual strength.Link
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Strangely, I found myself repeating the Hail Mary until it became a chant. Being a recent convert to Catholicism, I had yet to accept the Catholic doctrines concerning Mary and considered any form of Marian devotion to be idolatry. Though I had never before prayed a Hail Mary in my life, I suddenly found myself incapable of any other form of prayer. Somehow, Mary's intercessions allowed me to find peace during that long night; I knew that I had survived the worst and that I would exit with my faith intact. It terrified me to recall how close I came to turning away from Christ out of fear.
Kinda like the Borg...
“Bigot” to Mormons - anyone who doesn’t fully agree with them.
Sad but true.
The one David Barton talked about came from congress!
We have been condition to react to those who choose to frame things in such a way as to poison the water instead of being our own person and put our own pieces of the puzzle in the proper fit.
The oppostition gets a way with a lot because the masses in general who do no homework but buy what ever is being sold.
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I agree Resty, but I also know A LOT of LDS who fall into that category as well.
but this nation is under threat from Mitt Romney and we need to save our nation from his evil.
Glenn Beck was promoting that evil on his show, and he dismissed Romney’s nightmare, (Palin) in a single sentence.
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AMEN!!
What is it with Romneybots and the screeching?
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Can’t support him on his merits (he doesn’t have any).
More like epic fail.
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