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Bob Beckel: Get ready for an October surprise, Republicans
Hot Air.com ^ | posted at 11:21 am on September 19, 2014 by Allahpundit

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.


TOPICS: Editorial; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
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To: Kaslin
Unrepentant Bobby is playing games, laughing it up like the Good Cappo he fantasizes himself to be.

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?

41 posted on 09/21/2014 6:58:53 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Kaslin
The American people have October surprise fatigue.

Any surprise that occurs will be viewed with jaundiced eyes and have the opposite of the intended effect.

42 posted on 09/21/2014 7:17:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Kaslin
Obama will travel to Mecca in October to reveal himself as the twelfth imam.


43 posted on 09/21/2014 7:40:05 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Prospero

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.


44 posted on 09/21/2014 7:49:00 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Yogafist

I thought the Senate was in recess until November - after the election.


45 posted on 09/21/2014 8:06:03 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Another Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown?"

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.

46 posted on 09/21/2014 8:09:17 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

47 posted on 09/21/2014 8:11:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Cicero

The October surprise; pics with correspondence of Republicans shaking hands with terrorists who beheaded Americans?


48 posted on 09/21/2014 8:36:39 PM PDT by kaintucky
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To: Kaslin

Don’t tell me. Osama is going to repeal OsamaCare.


49 posted on 09/21/2014 8:59:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Oh, I was wondering. Also, my guess doesn’t really apply because spending has to start in the house.


50 posted on 09/21/2014 9:05:19 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: berdie

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.


51 posted on 09/21/2014 10:31:01 PM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: Darksheare
No, I do not like to be abused by the party establishment and sometimes treated as second class citizens. However, they are much preferred to the theft, confiscation of wealth, rape and pillaging done by the Democrats.
52 posted on 09/21/2014 11:01:58 PM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!!)
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To: georgiarat

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.


53 posted on 09/21/2014 11:07:46 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: georgiarat

” 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.


54 posted on 09/21/2014 11:11:05 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Kaslin

Less than 60 days to throw off the shackles of ‘rats, socialists, RINOS.

C’mon November


55 posted on 09/22/2014 12:00:40 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

Yo, Macho Toad Beckel, we always expect lies and trickenology from the Demmunists, it’s no longer a “surprise”, halfwit.


56 posted on 09/22/2014 3:23:13 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: JudyinCanada
Libs say the killing of muslims is what brings about more hatred of America and more people joining the jihad. If we go by this logic, then wasn’t the killing of Bin Laden a bad thing? Wouldn’t that have been what has given rise to ISIS?

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.

57 posted on 09/22/2014 6:52:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Darksheare

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.


58 posted on 09/22/2014 2:12:44 PM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!!)
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To: georgiarat

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.


59 posted on 09/22/2014 2:19:30 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Kaslin

We could only be shocked off our butts by the Republicans showing up with a set.


60 posted on 09/22/2014 3:40:59 PM PDT by Yaelle
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