Posted on 02/22/2010 2:53:38 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Juan Williams has absolutely no faith in the 2012 Republican presidential field. He brought a healthy dose of “fair and balanced” to the FOX News Sunday Panel Plus online-exclusive segment yesterday, where he predicted to his bemused colleagues that, despite their high hopes, if they didn’t find a respectable candidate soon, Barack Obama would win reelection in a landslide.
While the rest of the panel – Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, NPR’s Mara Liasson, and host Chris Wallace – shrugged it off with laughter, it was a pretty fearless point to make riding on the heels of one of the most successful CPACs in recent memory and in a year where dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party has fed a massive Tea Party resistance movement and launched Republican Scott Brown from Massachusetts into the Senate.
Williams seemed to have been pushed into making this argument not by the successes of Sarah Palin or propositions that Mitt Romney still has a viable shot at the presidency, but at Kristol’s suggestion that Texas governor Rick Perry, who has advocated for Texas secession in the not-so-distant past, could make a splash in the presidential pool. While Romney and Mike Huckabee have the traditional advantage of being runners-up from 2008, Kristol argued, Perry’s decade in the governor’s seat would put him in a “pretty strong position to run for President.”
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I saw Juan Williams become completely unhinged election night last November when he began to see Barry’s presidency start to evaporate and he’s been getting worse ever since. Obviously, he has a huge personal emotional investment in The Messiah.
Why? Juan is not worth it.
Juan is why I don’t watch FOX as much as in days past.
Take the margin of Clinton beating Dole and add 10%, if the economy improves at all between now and Nov 2012.
“I think Obama will win in a landslide.”
A landslide seems a stretch, but I do worry that Obama will benefit from factors way beyond his control, e.g.,
1) the ailing Kim Jong-Il dies and the new leadership opts to pull a China by allowing capitalism and reuniting with S. Korea;
and/or
2) Israelis take out Iran’s nuclear capability, leading to an overthrow of I’mANutJob and the sudden transformation of Middle East as Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan all slowly but surely emerge as democratic regimes and the Palestinians elect to pull an Egypt and settle their differences with Israel etc.
With health reform and cap n trade sidelined, my guess is that the economy might turn around much more rapidly in the face of a far less contentious foreign policy landscape. Obama wouldn’t deserve the credit, but voters by 2012 might feel far less angry with unemployment finally trending downward and their 401(k)’s replenished.
And Sheppie.
“Juan wishes there was a GOP candidate to blow Obama out of the White House.”
There is...Charlie Crist! lol
Sometimes he says some semi-reasonable stuff, at least you can tell he gave it some thought. Then all of a sudden Williams goes flat-out brain dead.
Someone must have read that bozo the riot act about towing the line.
I agree, he’s got to go. He is really hurting Fox.
Juan is so far off base it’s not funny.
No big deal. He’s a Dem, but he WILL admit later that he was WRONG.
Juan is predicting that we will inherit the same election model as in Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.
He predicts we will become a tyranny by the 2012 election cycle not only that he hopes for that day.
The guy is a leftist radical that plays games on FOX.
He throws our side a bone once in a while then when it counts he spews his radical views as the good leftist he is.
Juan used to show some flashes of objectivity in the past, but more and more seems to have become an Obama cheerleader, about as objective as Colin Powell in recent months.
Fortunately, Juan’s never been right about anything.
He’s right about one thing; conservative candidates are a vast wasteland
Nah keep him around. Bill Kristol needs a punchimg bag to work out on. Sometimes I feel sorry for Juan. He looks like he needs a keeper.
Agree. I will not waist that hr listening to the crap on Sunday's show.
Hey, that's a pretty good line. Guilty, btw.
Now if he would only punch him.
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