Posted on 09/26/2009 3:11:14 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
By saying that Republican John McCain would have been a worse president than Barack Obama............
(I have no use for the rest of this website's drivel. I just want the substance of what Beck said)
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
You smelling troll too? Checking his posting history he also stroked the feud between Reagan and Bush, attacks Palin but then tried to sound like a supporter, attacks the candidates in Texas...because he is a “conservative”, and so on.
manufactures - manufactured
I look at Beck as doing the job that a honest press would be actually doing but for political reasons won't.
Levin should just say he doesn't agree and why he does not and MAYBE he could convince some people to agree with him....so what?????? Let's attack the corruption and tyranny in this country and put most efforts there. To argue over "what ifs" are a waste of energy for the most part and by judging MOST of McCain's policies and thinking, we would have been spiraling down to total tyranny regardless.
I know the point Beck says he is trying to make that at least partly covers up his own self interest. [As an aside, I like some of what Beck does on the air as with Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin etc.]
As for the Reagan arguement, the American public liked Reagan. He had residual good will with the public from his acting days. He seemed like a good guy. [The public knows that it does not know what issues will arise in the next four years and thus generally goes with the candidate that seems like a good guy with common sense.] Reagan likely would have won in 1980 whether it was against Carter or it was open with Ford retiring. After running a centerist in 1976, the Dims likely would have run a hard lefty in 1980. Reagan would have mopped the floor with whomever it was.
And as a bonus, had the Dims not won with Carter in 1980, they might have been willing to go with another unknown Dim govenor in 1992 and we might have been spared turning the White House being taken over by trailer trash.
Geez...if that's your assessment of Levin fine...but try reading his book then try Becks. You might change your opinion. The main difference between the two is one is a Libertarian, and the other is conservative. Both guys help the cause.
I like them both, dislike both their voices (i.e., Levin’s and the Mel Blanc impressions).
But for the time I put in, I’d like to get something elevating or entertaining out of it. Levin’s book was junior high school level, it would have been elevating when I was 13; now it’s just tedious.
Beck, on the other hand, is mildly entertaining, and he asks questions that need to be asked.
One good question is worth many lectures.
Pains me to say it but I suspect Levin is either envious or snobbish, with regard to Beck.
In any case they are both serving a good cause and Levin should respect that.
As for McCain, opinions about him are all over the place, and there’s a grain of validity in all of them. He’s iron and clay, gold and dross. Nobody should blame anyone for any opinion about McCain.
No, the main difference is that Beck is having an effect as is evidenced by the unrelenting attacks on him from the left. Levin? The left could care less about him.
agreed.....
“Nobody should blame anyone for any opinion about McCain.”
I’m with ya on that.
Mark Levin is president of Landmark Legal Foundation. Previously he served as Landmark’s director of legal policy for more than three years.
Levin served as chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General, Edwin Meese; in the Reagan Administration.
Deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education; .
and deputy solicitor of the U.S. Department of Interior In the Reagan Administration.
He holds a B.A. from Temple University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.
Mark is a frequent contributor to, The Corner on National Review Online.
Mark Levin is also the author of the best selling books, Men in Black, Rescuing Sprite and Liberty and Tyranny.
Thank you for that!
Levin’s credentials speak louder than he does.
The fact that someone with his voice is able to maintain a RADIO audience says people really want to hear what he has to say.
1,000,000 copies of Liberty and Tyranny sold has an effect.
I enjoy both, but my post was in response to the idea that Levin is not a deep thinker?
“Levin? The left could care less about him.”
Not really true, but they do try like hell to ignore him. No liberal, and I mean none of them, want to debate him.
Im not attacking Levin or attempting to diminish anything he has done. Beck has the lib’s snapping at their own asses and Levin has the balls to attack him.....its a stupid ploy on his part to garner more of an audience for himself, nothing more or less. That pisses me off.
But it does mean that you knew that McCain was not nearly as bad as Obamba.
He may like the Cap and Trade but he would not be pushing it in a time of recession.
He would not have been pushing this health care crap at all.
Obama is much worse than any RINO any day of the week.
Nothing so sweet as the smell of burning troll in the morning.
It is my contention that the left is trying to baptize Beck our leader FOR us, so that they can then later tear him down.
Rush has been through it and so has Levin and remained standing, Beck is a much easier target, and he is setting himself up for a fall with the help of the left.
I like both of them but I never liked McCain. I held my nose to vote for McCain. I believe McCain wanted BHO to win.
IMO, this is ego driven.
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