Posted on 09/21/2014 4:37:51 PM PDT by Kaslin
Via NRO, nothing says “slow news Friday” like a lazy post devoted to half-assed speculation.
On the one hand, he’s an old Democrat with friends in the Democratic establishment. He might conceivably have heard something from a friend who’s heard something from someone who’s in a position to know. On the other hand, I haven’t seen a single other liberal in media anywhere say anything about an October surprise. What’s most likely? That Bob Beckel, Fox News liberal, is somehow more tapped in to the White House than MSNBC? That lots of other lefties in media know what he’s talking about here but have held their tongues, with not even so much as an anonymous quote leaking into the NYT or WaPo? Or that he’s talking out of his ass?
Listen closely through the crosstalk and you’ll hear him say he thinks it has to do with national security. The only potential “October surprise” material I’m aware of lately is the rumor that Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Waziristan. A defense official already denied that, though. Maybe BB’s heard that we’ve picked up his scent and are trying to zap him before November, so that Obama can reverse some of the gruesome numbers he’s been putting up lately on foreign policy. I wonder, though, how long that bounce would last: Getting Zawahiri wouldn’t pack the same punch that getting the more iconic Bin Laden did, although of course it would pack some. If you want to get Americans high-fiving, take out the new “caliph,” al-Baghdadi, instead. Or better yet, take out both.
I mean, folks, this isn't an election year. Obama isn't really on the ballot. The winning margin is (it really is) totally in two camps. Black Democrats and Constitutional Republicans. What is Bobby expecting that would alter the behavior of either of these two camps? Something that would favor the Old New Left, obviously, and not the Democrat-Farmer-Labor fantasy that is Bobby's religion.
Can anyone think of anything that would affect the voting behavior of either of these important voting blocks (in a way that favors Pelosi Democrats) that hasn't already happened?
Any surprise that occurs will be viewed with jaundiced eyes and have the opposite of the intended effect.
Bob says it’s natsec. And Oct Surprises are launched to turn the public away from voting in a wave. So it must be RINOs riding’ dirty on security issues... like Benghazi.
I thought the Senate was in recess until November - after the election.
Nah.
The grand jury will 'no bill' the cop in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Holder will call for protests nation wide.
American cities will start burning.
The October surprise; pics with correspondence of Republicans shaking hands with terrorists who beheaded Americans?
Don’t tell me. Osama is going to repeal OsamaCare.
Oh, I was wondering. Also, my guess doesn’t really apply because spending has to start in the house.
Beckel seems Okay. I don’t watch the show all that much but from what I’ve seen I like Andrea. Kimberly seems arrogant, Greg is annoying, what’s the other guys name? At first I liked him but he’s said a few things that rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t believe he’s a conservative.
So you’ll stick with the abuser, the RINOs, who actively assist the dems in working against you.
Tell me, exactly in what way have they done anything to stop the dems?
They have done nothing.
Instead, they help the dems and vow to destroy you.
And yet you vote for them.
” However, they are much preferred to the theft, confiscation of wealth, rape and pillaging done by the Democrats.”
As opposed to the apparently “good” theft, confiscation of wealth, rape and pillaging done by the RINOs.
I’m tracking.
Less than 60 days to throw off the shackles of ‘rats, socialists, RINOS.
C’mon November
Yo, Macho Toad Beckel, we always expect lies and trickenology from the Demmunists, it’s no longer a “surprise”, halfwit.
That was President Obama's stated reason in not "disrespecting" the corpse of Osama Bin Laden, instead giving him a muslim funeral ritual (on taxpayer dollars) and refusing to release the photos of his bloody corpse. "That would be spiking the football" #VOTEOBAMAIN2012OBAMAGOTOSAMA the corpse of Osama Bin Laden, instead giving him a muslim funeral ritual (on taxpayer dollars) and refusing to release the photos of his bloody corpse.
Darkshere, you have been around here for a long time and I agree with most of your posts and stated beliefs. I have to believe you are not a Democrat and certainly not a troll.
However, I am just tired of Democrat Party trolls trying to suppress Republicans from voting as they did in 2012. If Republicans are stupid enough to fall for the tricks then they deserve what they get from the Democrats. Yes, they are worst than the lousy establishment Republicans.
I’m tired of the RNC/GOP telling conservatives that we are extremists, that they will destroy us, and the posters who enable same by continuing to zombie style support any pos they run no matter what.
We could only be shocked off our butts by the Republicans showing up with a set.
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