Beck will be shilling for Romney full time in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... commence shilling.
I don’t listen to Beck much. He seems to be solely for himself and his ratings. His positions on issues and other personalities seem totally designed to benefit himself. Does he have any core principle? He’s very much like an Alinsky organizer in that lack of any goal or principle beyond power to himself.
I for one am sick and tired of hearing about how Sarah Palin’s book are so dumb. They are not meant to be policy books, I took them as a biographical account of her life thrown in with a few ancetodtes about policy. I remember my Liberaltarian brother sitting on the couch skimming through her book and laughing. Then running upsatairs to tell my other brother how stupid she was based on a few excerpts. Sarah Palin is not dumb, and she has accomplished more than the liberals that criticize her ever will. I am getting so tired of the Palin is stupid playcard because what they are really saying is that all of us who support her are dumb. I am so sick and tired of it, and it’s really disapointing to see Beck take on some O’Reillyesque tendecies on the issues.
Politico can single handedly get conservatives snarling at one another. No one presently really seems to think Palin is running. There is just no sign of interest, other than throwing bones to her base, she is utterly disengaged.
I think any advantage Sarah might have gained by being a policy wonk over the past couple of years has always been greatly overrated. Maybe those who say that forget how long presidential primaries and campaigns now are.
She, or any other candidate, will have more than adequate time to prove or disprove their knowledge of the issues during the primary campaigns and debates which will run for about nine months, from this summer until next March or so. Then we'll have almost as many more months for the primary winners to further dazzle us with their knowledge.
Not sure what Sarah will do, but all this nonsense about her great need to show her stuff on policy the past two years is mostly something for those commentators who never stop thinking about politics to navel gaze about. All the eventual candidates have more than enough time and opportunities remaining to show us what they know, or don't know.
At the time Sarah wrote her book, she'd been through a national campaign, had seen herself and her family attacked for things that were simply NOT true, so she was looking to set the record straight. I certainly don't fault her for that.
Beck is no conservative. Don’t be fooled.
Sarah Palin's first book was her way of introducing herself to the American public. It was clearly not intended to be a boring policy-wonk treatise. Her second book was a broad outlook on where she wants to see our country go, written in a very personalized fashion. Again, not a policy-wonk's dream but readable and interesting. Apparently, Glenn Beck has other ideas about how Sarah Palin should present herself. That's his prerogative, of course and I'm sure the left is loving this but I simply disagree with Mr. Beck and will continue to support Sarah Palin unless or until she chooses not to run. However, I probably won't be all that interested in what Glenn Beck has to say about electoral politics from this point on because he has shown me that he is a bit lacking in political sophistication. However, I refuse to take the left's bait and demonize Glenn Beck because we part company on the validity of Sarah Palin as a presidential candidate. We simply disagree (not that Beck knows I'm alive).
I also think that those who seem to believe that Obama will be a formidable candidate for re-election are mistaken. I believe he is weak and can be beaten. His record is horrendous. People are deeply concerned about their future. His racial minority status won't pull him over the finish line, this time. Obama's 'historic' moment has passed and voters are getting serious. Sarah Palin, with her authenticity, common sense ideas and charisma can beat Obama. Whether she'll run or not remains to be seen but she'll have to decide, soon. Meanwhile, the trolls will prowl around FR looking for opportunities to criticize Palin and the folks who never seem to find anyone 'conservative' enough will do the same with the usual complaints about her leaving the Alaska governorship prematurely or whatever else bothers them, today. So be it. I believe Sarah Palin will endure and ultimately triumph.
He doesn't seem to want to elaborate on what exactly caused the abrupt end to his FOX Cable TV show.
He also seems very insistent that the only real candidate is Christie, the Governor of NJ.
Maybe he'll next go on tour with Charlie Sheen.
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.
At the time Sarah wrote her book, she'd been through a national campaign, had seen herself and her family attacked for things that were simply NOT true, so she was looking to set the record straight. I certainly don't fault her for that.
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Except that she has no "deep" policies. She has tweets and FB essays and talking head critiques and "Gee Ain't America Great" speeches but no genuine policies, deep or otherwise.
The real reason for all this is still the nagging gut-feel (yes, down in their very bones) that she could/would actually be elected! And, their very lives, their incomes, their prestige, their import, would all be lessened immensely.
God put the instinct for self-preservation in all his children. Free choice, succumbing to vanity and evil are sometimes unintended consequences of that instinct.
I’d say Beck raises some very good points, were it not for the fact that Obama was elected by mass proclamation, despite the fact that WE DIDN’T KNOW MUCH IF ANYTHING ABOUT WHERE HE STOOD ON ANYTHING!
Given that fact, it’s a little hard to rough-up Sarah for being thin on policy statements in her book.
So says the bozo who makes a living off ads for bomb shelters and food insurance.
Usually, when a "journalist" spits out something like this, there is very little truth and a boatload of skewed context.