Posted on 04/12/2011 10:19:48 AM PDT by FreeManDC
Glenn Beck doesn’t see Sarah Palin running for president and said she has done some damage to her political brand.
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Beck, a constant Palin cheerleader, said flatly on his radio show Monday, “Sarah Palin, I don’t think, wants to run for president.”
The outgoing Fox News personality has hosted Palin on his show several times – once for a full hour – and she has frequently lavished praise on him.
Still, even with all that good will, Beck was frank in assessing what Palin has done to hurt her own political stock – even though he credited her with surviving tough media coverage.
“There are some things about Sarah Palin,” he said, going on to suggest Palin made a mistake by selling her personal story in her first book after leaving the governor’s office, rather than demonstrating some policy credentials.
“She should have come out with that first book, and it should have been deep policy,” he said. “It should have shown that, yes, she knows where Russia is.”
“She didn’t help herself by doing some things to shore herself up,” Beck added.
Still, Beck predicted that Palin “wants to shape the debate,” though he sees her role as outside elective politics.
“I personally think she is on a smart path for the future to be able to hold people together,” Beck said. “It’s ideals that I think she is going for.”
Yes, Beck’s constant cheerleading for Harry Reid has been quite disturbing.
"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."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2489285/posts
I've read that Beck has said some not-so flattering things about Romney and I guess we could debate whether Beck thinks that Romney is the objective favorite to win or whether he supports Romney for personal reasons.
Bottom line, though, I believe that when push comes to shove, we're going to see Beck supporting Romney. Time will tell.
Not much has changed in the dynamics over the past couple of months in early 2012 election polling. No matter which of 10 Republicans is matched against President Obama, the president earns between 42% and 49% of the vote. That same dynamic was found earlier this year and suggests the election is still shaping up as a referendum on the president. That’s typical when an incumbent runs for reelection.
The numbers show that Mike Huckabee runs even with Obama at this point. Mitt Romney, who just formally entered the race, trails the president by five, 45% to 40%. Others who trail by single digits include Ron Paul and Haley Barbour.
I was wrong about chicken little I did not hear all he said. Chicken is either a backstabber or a nutcase. Now I know why I never liked him.
Yea this is twisted.
He didn’t just throw Sarah Palin under the bus. He threw Michele Bachmann under too and Donald Trump.
Maybe he’s going for Romney.
But you wont see Rush doing that.
Sad to see that some weak minded here use polls to tell them who to support for president. You have a brain and a heart. Use it.
His ego’s gotten too big. I hope if Sarah Palin wins she ignores Beck during both her terms.
You know, it looks like Mark Levin was right about Beck after all. He’s a real weasel.
LOL - BTDT
10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I continue to believe and hope that Palin is going to run, but she best get noisy about it real soon.
politico’s words, not Beck’s.
politico: “and said she has done some damage to her political brand”
politico: “Still, even with all that good will, Beck was frank in assessing what Palin has done to hurt her own political stock”
politico: “going on to suggest Palin made a mistake by selling her personal story in her first book”
Beck didn’t say anything about Sarah’s political “brand.” politico did,
Beck did not ay she “damaged” herself. politico did.
Beck offered an OPINION that Sarah should have made the first book about policy. It was politico that said he called it a “mistake.”
Geez, people.
And as for the thing about her not wanting to run, really. I have been sort of wondering if that is why Michelle Bachmann IS. Those two put their heads together awhile ago, Sarah is my candidate if she runs, but she Always said that if there was someone willing to run that had her ideals and core values, the game changed.
So. It just might be that Sarah will go whole hog for Michelle Bachmann and shock everyone down to their bones.
Lol, and I don’t think Ike spend years putting out policy statements before he ran for president and beat policy wonk Stevenson twice.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html
The averages confirm what you are saying. Obama is like Clinton and made of teflon at this point.
It is good to remind folks that Politico is nothing but a bunch of POS libs and flaming homo’s that feed on the drool dripping from Obama’s mouth.
This is coming from a man who lost his flagship station, lost his NYC radio station, and he knows who will win an election?
Do you recall the venue, or the context of his comments?
We got a taste of that here in Cincinnati when FOX cancelled a Hannity Appearance at a Tea Party event.
What explanation was given for the cancellation?
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