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:
It increases your odds...
Back to serious. Yeah, you are right. Something’s a little unbalanced about Beck.
So, you are dating Ziva from NCIS? Cool.
If I was a guy, SHE would be the woman of my dreams.
Being Forshund, I could mate with a steaming pile of fresh basil-and-tomato calamari, and have fine children.
I like PAC-MAN. I really do.
I should watch that show, point to Ziva, and command my lovely woman to become HER.
Something’s a little unbalanced about Beck.
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Seriously. His ‘only sane person in the building’ worked at CNN (where it was actually true) but it doesn’t fly at Fox News. On Fox, he radiates unbalanced.
Commandment 16: All Women Should Aspire To Be Ziva.
Smart man. Sign her up for martial arts and weapons classes as a start. I did.
now THAT is a commandment I can follow!
Beck might try to mate with my calamari.
You are making me cry over here. LOL.
No! Not the Calamari!!
Tears of laughter, no doubt.
My girl erupts into laughter whenever I get undressed.
Def tears of laughter.
Undress in the dark. That helps.
When I undress, I always have fanfare, spotlights, and the announcer who goes “Lets get ready to rrrrrrrRRRRRUUUUUMMMMMBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!”
The move is on to get a rino RAT-light useful idiot, nitwit if we can get another commie- RAT.
Great, so undressing is like a WWE wrestling match. Got it.
Replete with the cute ringside chick with colorful cards.
“I could care less if Palin is the nominee.”
Sounds like you care very much so.
“As for your “jack-in-the-box” comment, you should know better. Obama had zero funding in 2006;”
Obama certainly did have significant funding in 2006. The way how he disqualified his Republican senate candidate was headline news.
And how long was Obama a ‘senator’ before he totally abandoned it and ran for President? Not much more after a hundred days. Of course, he was running for President before he was ‘officially’ doing so. His speech at the DNC that year instantly made him a national star.
“and in previous election cycles, some of the best-funded, most organized people went nowhere (Phil Gramm, for ex.).”
But that is not a reply to my argument. I am saying you are summoning unicorns by claiming that a ‘mysterious candidate’ will magically appear when a run for the Presidency must begin two years in advance.
Now, a mysterious candidate might appear in winning Iowa. But they never go beyond that. It is one thing to win a primary. It is another to win most of them.
I think it is intellectually dishonest that you are spouting that a ‘mysterious candidate’ will arise when that isn’t possible. Everyone who has obtained the presidential nomination in modern history has been well known a couple years before they ran.
So I ask, “Why is LS not being intellectually honest?” I believe you are suffering from wishful thinking.
“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.”
Have you never heard the term of ‘Eeyore’ before? Doom and gloomers are all around us and they are certainly around on FreeRepublic.
Your posting about health care would pass was not an intellectually spirited post but yet another doom and gloom post. The problem with doom and gloom thinkers is that they never become leaders. Leaders must inspire and raise people up.
This is why you are stuck here, playing the role of cultural janitor through your books, and talking to me, while a little fishing woman from Alaska is very possibly going to be the 45th President of the United States.
“Let’s talk again after the 2012 primaries are over. (I will actually be surprised if Palin even runs, let alone wins).”
I knew she was going to run as soon as I saw her first interview (after the 2008 election) with Glenn Beck back in January (or February) of 2009.
Running for president takes a very special personality and energetic attitude. I saw it up close with Bush. I very much see it today with Palin. In order for someone like Palin to run for president, she would have to ditch Alaska, move to the mainland, constantly be on TV, constantly make the public rounds, and assert a opposing agenda to Obama. She is doing all of this.
If she wasn’t running, why would she be doing all this work? Why does President Obama treat her as a political nemesis?
Obviously, the verses in favor of monogamy were the ones that needed correction! So in need of correction, that God had to give Joseph Smith a revelation against it, even though the Book of Mormon teaches against it, too! It's amazing how those evil creed-making gentiles got into Hill Cumorah and re-wrote the golden plates...
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