Sean, Sean, Sean (Hannity Supports Arnold Snubs McClintock)

Hannity2004.com ^ | 9/29/03 | Matthew Reid

[Nephi]

Since Sean is such a pathetic debater and clearly, no longer a conservative, he needs to give up his position on Hannity & Colmes and allow a real conservative to pick up where he has failed.

[L.N. Smithee]

Thanks for posting this, from a fan of Hannity even.

As I said before, I knew that Hannity was star-struck something awful on the first full day of the Schwarzenegger candidacy. He would say over and over and over that he loved the way Arnold says "Collyforneeyah."

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

we in California 'deserved it' and would happily toast Bustamante disassembling the state

Excuse me.......I was born in California and have lived here all of my life. I and my family DO NOT deserve it and I think that theory has proven itself to be flawed.

If it were true, Clinton would have never been elected to a second term.

Has it ever occurred to any of you purists that the very people you consider your adversaries are rubbing their hands together in glee when you huff and puff with your "vote of conscience"?

[workerbee]

However pretending he's impartial when he has obviosly leaned toward Arnold from day one is pretty lame

I seem to recall that, early on, Sean was actually questioning Arnold's less-than-conservative views. Didn't he and Bill Bennett talk about it one night on H&C?

[ProfoundMan]

Glad to hear it's not just me that thinks this. "III, me me me, my my my" - jeez, it's worse than O'Rielly. I tolerated this egocentrism more often than not in the hope of a good caller or an interesting thought now and again, but once Sean latched his umbilical to Arnold, there was no more reason to listen.

[azcap]

What do you mean by the phrase "running toward the center"?
Do you mean espouse views that appear more centrist?

George W. is a good example. He is pro-life. He supports parental notification, the PBA ban, and supports judges who would vote to overturn Roe Vs. Wade. In the primaries he touted his pro-life stance but in the general election he did not beat that drum. He did not abandon his principles, and whenever asked he clearly answered questions about and made no apologies for his pro-life views. What he didn't do was march in to every campaign town behind a Right to Life Brass Band. The result is that he squeaked out a victory with a lot of votes from people who are not pro-life. By the end of the year he will sign into law the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. He is nominating pro-life federal judges and will eventually add more pro-life Supreme Court Justices. If he would have ran as an ideologue Gore would have beaten him and instead of incremental pro-life victories we would have utter defeat. Conservatives are not a majority. Until we change the way millions of people think and we become a majority, we need to spend a little more time thinking about how to get elected and little less time drafting essays for the National Review.

 

 

[truthkeeper]

Talk about barf alert. I thought Sean was going kiss the guy. It was embarrassing.

It was worse listening to Arnold's town hall on the radio last week. I kept hearing Sean giggling and sighing in absolute rapture, under his breath, with Arnold's every word. I almost tossed my cookies.

I actually don't mind Sean vocally supporting Arnold - it is a free country, after all - but his lack of effort in hiding his schoolboy crush on him is childish and unprofessional. He should at least try to maintain a facade of objectivity. After all, isn't that his job?

[SunStar]

Say hello to Dr. Laura.

Nah... Glenn Beck.

[CARepubGal]

Precisely. And Ahnuld SwarzKennedy is going to be another Pete Wilson. A disaster that will be worse than an 8.0 Earthquake for California.

[CARepubGal]

Maybe Sean's CINO status would be better served on E! or the G factor. Alan Keyes or Pat would be a much more interesting foil to Colmes. :-)

[Concerned]

FORD FAIRLANE WROTE: "I was pretty disgusted by his show this afternoon. On any other issue Sean preaches that we should stick to our principles, but not this time."

Sean actually IS advocating sticking to your principles. Check out my DETAILED comment about the recall at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/990452/posts?page=546#546

THREE MAIN POINTS of my comment are that by electing Arnold, a fiscal conservative, we have:

(1) A PLACE AT THE TABLE and a VOICE. If we do NOT even have a PLACE AT THE TABLE, we have ZERO VOICE AT ALL!"

(2) Rome was NOT built in a day!!! It took OVER 100 YEARS to have a Republican Governor in Texas. Now, Texas is a REPUBLICAN STATE! EVERY STATEWIDE OFFICE IS REPUBLICAN!!! It did NOT happen in ONE election cycle! And electing the candidate who is MOST CLOSELY ALIGNED with my views instead of one who is the MOST DISTANT from my views is FAR MORE IMPORTANT to adhering to my principles and reaching my goals.

(3) The POINT is that if we are only going to be satisfied if we get EVERYTHING we want, we will have NOTHING! ZERO! ZIPPO! NADA!

[B Knotts]

I can't stand to listen to him anymore. I can't take him seriously. Same goes for Ann Coulter.

[B Knotts]

When a classic nerd loses to a classic alpha male and you are shocked and saddened, it reveals how little you follow human nature.

Are we no better than animals?

[At _War_With_Liberals]

THE MAN in NY is Bob Grant, 5PM, 710 AM.

[halfdome]

I know lots of people who are voting for Arnold, but the only reason is they think McClintock can't win, even though they agree with McClintock's stand on the issues. Perhaps if all the McClintock supporters really did vote for him, maybe he could win. I haven't heard anyone say they're voting for Arnold because they think he can improve things in California, they're voting for him because they think he can win.

[TomasUSMC]

Hennity is wrong about Arnolds over McClintock though. Hennity has tried to sabotage the race against the Republican party. Hennity says he's "passionately pro life". Ha, if this is what he calls passionate, his wife must be very home alone.

Hennity will start to stretch and stretch trying to please the RINOS and the Real Patriotic Republicans - and he will rip apart. To bad he was entertaining.

[claudiustg]

Let's see. Arnold does not have a conservative stance on abortion, gun control, gay marriage, or the place of Christian religious principles in public life. We assume he adheres to conservative economic policies, but he has not taken the pledge to not raise taxes. It's quite possible he'll look at the books and say that he's going to raise taxes and terminate the deficit.
Then what? Are we going to pray to Maria to interceed for us?
But he can win...

[mark the shark]

I agree with you Gringo1,
Arnold has face recognition and he also has command presence. Tom is an awesome political technician and the obvious winner in the factual debates on issues, but he could not get elected controller of the state 2 cycles back, and he couldn't win the primary for govenor in the last cycle. He has hacked-off too many within the leadership to carry this election.
William Buckley said it best,'The most right leaning viable candidate.' Arnold is that man, like it or not. This is not the hill I want to leave my body on. McClintock won't be able to get elected Dog Catcher if he does the O.K. Corral in this election. He will become another footnote in the annuls of american politics, an extra credit question in high school civics. If they even have such a class in Peoples Republic of California.

[A CA Guy]

McClintock is the preverbial horse with no legs or personality.

He has only some conservative vote and that is all.

You get a fiscal conservative who is a Republican in Arnold.

Also Tom has shown some pretty stupid political moves that has him nearly retired after this race.

[socal_parrot]

where can we contact Sean?

Try going to Hannity.com. You can e-mail him from there.