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:
The left sees the exorcism event as a path for attacking Jindal, just as they see this African blessing Palin for political success and protection from witchcraft as something that can be turned into an effective attack if needed someday. I see both things as showing that these two politicians are truly, internally connected to the bible.
Here is the so called nasty freepmail
e: Glenn Beck: ‘Mitt Romney Could Be The Only Guy That Could Win’ In 2012
To Allegra | 04/09/2010 12:56:00 AM PDT sent
I never saw that nasty comment about Thompson’s wife, but that’s disgusting.
Does this preson’s name start with an ‘r’? End with a ‘u’?
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This is vicious I have never ever said anything disparingly about Fred Thomson wife and you better retract that for it is a lie!
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The vicious is the calling Thomson wife a whore which I fine ulgy and would never say such a thing!
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Re: Re: Re: Glenn Beck: ‘Mitt Romney Could Be The Only Guy That Could Win’ In 2012
To Allegra | 04/09/2010 9:01:12 AM PDT sent
Honesty is the best policy no matter how you cut it was to imply!
You don’t sound like a nice person nor a friend.
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don’t want any mystery of what I really said!
I was trying to show courtesy instead of posting on the thread, in my generation it best to tell another what is frusting you first instead of in public
but yours generation never can understand protocol
I really don’t understand the reasoning imply in public what was a courtesy to you unless it was to taint the water and leaving it up to the imagination of the reader.
So you don’t care for those who talk to you in private to air out the difference fine.
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
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Resty, I believe it really was an honest question rather than a slanderous statement.
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.
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Awww...you consider me a friend? That is sweet. I consider you a friend as well even if we drive each other crazy. :D
And I think that comment was supposed to be a compliment, so I will take it as such.
I can say the same for the anti also!
I wouldn’t know really, I avoid Beck at all costs. I have ever since I first saw him on CNN.
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.
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You wouldn’t be the first. LOL. Romney’s campaign and his supporters attitudes have done a lot for our cause.
Thank you, counselor. ;)
A) Its a leftist site that has some former msnbcer on it who also runs tvnewser and he spends time on tvnewser going after Beck.
B) I’ll have to hear the show myself either throught the web or when my station re-runs it at night
C) I can’t comment till I hear all the facts. Frankly, Beck hates everyone because they all backstab us. So who knows what he was trying to say.
Maybe but I have had encounters with Allegra in the past she never discuss she launches!
She could have freepmail that question that way it would not look like a double entendre.
to have ones cake and eat it too!
I never understood that stupid pharse what the sense of having cake if you can’t eat it!:)
Fine. I avoid Mark Levin because he went after Beck. Its not so much that I dislike Levin, but he was misplaced in last years attack on Beck. And I don’t need that. I can’t all I need from Limbaugh or even Laura Ingraham.
LOL. I think it is more along the lines of ‘keeping a cake’ (intact like a display) and eating it (which also destroys it). A person can not do both. Just guessing.
And resty, we have ALL posting things in open forum that probably should have been freepmailed, either intentionally or unintentionally. Even you.
The situation has been cleared up, I even came to your defense, and no permanent damage was done, babe.
Time to fight bigger battles, wouldn’t you agree?
Daniel Hannan’s Message to America (Where is our Daniel Hannan?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2489929/posts
Daily Kos begs to differ with mediate:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/7/854777/-Beck:-Romney-is-a-socialist-too!
The situation has been cleared up, I even came to your defense, and no permanent damage was done, babe.
Time to fight bigger battles, wouldn’t you agree?
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I agree and ask Allegra to join that is where the focus should be!
I want to be a fly on the wall for THAT occasion!
I want to be a fly on the wall for THAT occasion!
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We could probably sell tickets to it!
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.
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BINGO!
Awesome! Thanks since there are links at the bottom to them.
MrR and I have almost 100 pre 1910 schoolbooks and have wanted to devise a curriculum based upon them and their methodology.
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