Posted on 04/08/2010 2:32:54 PM PDT by iowamark
Glenn Beck and radio pals Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere rattled down the list of potential Republican nominees for President in 2012 this morning, and they had some bad news for the Tea Party movement: Sarah Palin probably won’t run, Ron Paul is still and long shot, and Mitt Romney, as of now, is the GOP’s best bet.
While Gray and Burguiere are harsh to most of the candidates, Beck spreads the love around. He tells his co-hosts that he likes Palin but doesn’t think she will run, Bobby Jindal but doesn’t think he has the charisma, and Congressman Paul but doesn’t think America is ready for him. Then, at the bottom of the pile, he finds Mitt Romney:
"I have to tell you that Mitt Romney could be the only guy that could win, and I don’t know if he could because I think that Americans are going to be I mean, this country is going to be in deep trouble by 2012, and the next term, if it’s not decided this term, the next term will decide our fate. Then I hope that Americans are ready for an adult and are ready for hard news."
It’s a strange, possibly sad conclusion from someone who had called Romney out for “flirting with socialism,” but ultimately Beck was trying to determine who could win, not who he thought should. If Beck was playing process of elimination, which he clearly was, it’s hard to refute his conclusion that Romney is the least likely candidate to crash and burn in a general election, if only for being a conservative from the most liberal state of America and having moderate successes like universal health care under his belt. Or– and this one is for you conspiracy theorists out there– maybe Beck is intentionally downplaying the Republican candidates’ ability to success so as to clear the brush and become the reluctant right-wing candidate by default. After all, he is the second-most popular human being in America. (Link to a Harris poll: Glenn Beck is the second most popular television personality in America… second only to Oprah Winfrey.)
Listen to the segment below:
People, stick with what’s actually said and actually written, not what the author is trying to imply with it. Don’t be led like sheep, K?
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Oh that is rich coming from someone who belongs to a church that reads into a passing comment by Paul and turns it into an entire doctrine of baptism for the dead and whose Church leaders once stated “When the prophet speaks, the thinking has been done”!
Sheeple much?!
It seems like it would be awfully hard to run for less government and against ObamaCare given what Romney signed into law in Massachusetts when he was governor. We need bold contrasts, not pastels.
ANSWER: Hiding, sending out his manipulators,
selling his ghostwritten book,
helping Gore push the fraud of climate change,
and actually (true to form) attacking the "tea party".
He was a disaster in a government, executive position.
Madonna has built a 700 million dollar empire in the private sector.
Why would it be difficult? If states want to get involved in healthcare, it’s well within their range. The Federal Government, however, has NO business in it...magritte
>> I’m not sure how you could forget it
Easy: I don’t watch Glenn Beck unless someone has him on somewhere and I’m a captive audience. And that’s a rare occurrence.
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‘Mitt Romney Could Be The Only Guy That Could Win’ In 2012 Sorry, Glenn ... I respectfully disagree. Yes, Mitt is Mormon like Glenn ... not that there's anything wrong with that. BUT, does Chuck Norris like Romney, or the Huckster?! As shown in this 2007 side-by-side Comparison, the Huckster has a higher overall score (although I think Sarah would score even higher):
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Book mark.
Do you not recognize that someone with some media power like Glenn Beck can slip remarks such as the ones he has made here to influence his listeners?
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Which is exactly why I don’t trust him. What is to stop him from slipping in some LDS political theology (and yes they have a lot of it)?
There is also his contribution to the “Mormons are just another Christian denomination” mantra.
Yep, a ‘Christian denomination’ that believes Christ is only one of 3 Gods, a created being, spirit brother of Satan (just like all of us), physical, literal (as in a human way) offspring of Mary and ‘Elohim’, and had to ‘earn His Godhood’. (BTW, I can source all of this if someone would like).
The also believe that all other Christians are ‘apostates’ and of the devil. Just another Christian church, yeah right.
Maybe. Even though I consider myself an evangelical, I have been somewhat suspicious/unenthusiastic about Huckabee.
They think a vote for the huckster is a vote for Jesus and a vote for Romney is a vote for the Devil.
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Well, you are HALF right, Romney is a vote for Satan, but Huck is too - don’t like either one.
I don’t play the “Jesus Card” in my voting and I don’t vote for people who do. Christ is too holy and sacred to be used in politics.
Who?
Beck is right. Jindal has no charisma. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Jindal—who isn’t natural born, BTW?
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Ummm...yeah he is. His parents were immigrants (legal, btw).
Let’s all throw Glenn Beck under the bus! Yeah, that’s a good idea!
After all, it’s not like he’s helping the conservative movement or anything.
Some conservatives seriously need to get it straight in their heads who their friends are and quit attacking them.
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Exactly! So why are so many bashing Palin?
His parents were here legally, but not as immigrants, the wife was pregnant with Bobby when they arrived, the father was very reluctant to accept the (wife’s) scholarship in the first place.
Bobby’s Mother;
“Raj was the daughter of a bank manager. She first came to America on a scholarship to study for her doctorate in nuclear physics at Louisiana State University.”
Bobby’s father;
Though the university health plan denied coverage for the birth (it was ruled a “preexisting condition”), the one-month paid maternity leave was awarded as promised — that was the perk that had tipped the scales for Amar, who’d been hesitant to leave home, having worked his way up through the ranks to the respected position of assistant professor of engineering at Punjab University in Chandigarh, the newly dedicated capital city of their home state.
Don’t be intellectually dishonest, LS. You cannot say, “Since I was right about healthcare...” since you made a thread titled “The Wheels Are Falling Off”. You thought it wouldn’t pass at the most recent time.
So spare us from this ‘great prophet’ garbage. You’re not half as smart as you think.
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