Posted on 01/13/2014 10:13:45 AM PST by xzins
Glenn Beck on Thursday likened New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s bridge scandal to a long list of scandals tied to President Obama, saying both illustrate “why you don’t give so much power to the government.”
“The ends justify the means,” Beck said. “This Chris Christie story is everything we despise in Barack Obama.”
Members of Christie’s staff are accused of closing access lanes to the George Washington Bridge as a way to get back at Mayor Mark Sokolich, who did not support Christie’s re-election bid.
Beck referenced a CNN interview in which DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claimed the president’s purported ignorance of scandals is different than Christie’s. As she saw it, the president was unaware of “policy issues,” whereas Christie’s was a scandal “in which his staff and possibly him exacted political retribution…”
“How is that different than the IRS scandal?” Beck demanded. His co-host Stu Burguiere argued that if anything, it’s “not as bad.”
Glenn Beck Responds to Chris Christie Bridge Scandal: Everything We Despise in Barack Obama Glenn Beck speaks on his radio program Jan. 9, 2014. (Photo: TheBlaze TV)
“Same attitude,” Burguiere summarized. “And if Chris Christie was president, he would do something similar – maybe not to the level of payback – but he would do something similar to punish his enemies.”
And as was the case with the president, Beck said that even if Christie didn’t explicitly give the order, his ignorance is just as troubling.
“It shows he’s putting horrible people around him and creating some sort of environment where these people think it’s a good idea, it is going to please their boss, to punish … his enemies,” Burguiere noted.
Beck warned that “conservatives need to run from Chris Christie,” saying this is the “quintessential example of why I’m against him.”
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And Beck added that if he starts supporting Christie in 2016 because he is the “lesser of two evils,” his co-hosts need to “slap” him. He went so far as to compare the state of the country — and the Republican Party in particular — to his days as an alcoholic.
Every morning, Beck said he would wake up and say he wasn’t going to drink that day. But something always happened, and he always ended up doing it. The radio host said eventually he was so disgusted with himself that he couldn’t even look in the mirror.
“That’s exactly where we are,” Beck said. “Every election, (we say) we’re not going to vote for one of those guys.”
But when the time comes, conservatives always rationalize that the Republican nominee is at least better than the Democrat, and get sucked back in.
“It’s time to stand up and say what you mean, mean what you say, and accept the consequences,” Beck said, encouraging people to be honest, decent, and true to their beliefs. “Let’s be a curious people that just get down to it, do it for the right reasons, and in the end, you’ll win.”
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What I ask of the GOP candidate in 2016 are these few things:
* That he/she not be a progressive
* That he/she fight in the general election with at least TWICE the fervor as the primary fight
* That he/she truly believe in a constitutionally limited federal government
* That he/she selects a running mate that shares the same beliefs
* That he/she aggressively prosecute the crimes perpetrated by the current administration
There are plenty more wish list items but these will be sufficient to earn my vote. If we get another milquetoast pantywaist progressive moderate I’ll write in “Sarah Palin”.
The whole thing with this mess is simple economics. Subsideze something and you get more of it. I find it odd that the econo-cons that are most often behind the RINOs here and elsewhere are so utterly clueless to that simple fact. And that is exactly what a vote is. You and I subsidize pols with our votes. Because without them, they are out of power or never achieve it to begin with.
In the end, a very small number now ‘bitterly cling’ to the ideas that helped destroy the country they claim to love.
Now of course they hare hearing that. they spin out, hit the wall and scream a lot. But we are all human and make mistakes. It’s just that most of us have realized it.
I voted for McCain to get Palin. I made a mistake. People got scared and voted for Romney. They made a mistake. These mistakes helped greenlight the GOP rush to the left since they rightly figured the cries of “The Dem is worse!” would win the day.
It did. And here we are. Now, after seeing Ryan screw vets, Bhoner screw everyone and McCain/Ghramm/McColnel and the lesser cast of disasters SPRINT leftward, with their pro gay, anti christian/pro illegal immigration bullshit...there is no excuse. NONE.
Anyone now voting for a Republican lesser than a Ted Cruiz type is as guilty as an Obama liberal of ruining this country.
Let the sycophants scream and call us bad names. Screw them.
I agree Ryan is dead to me. I too voted against O and that ballot had Romney on it.
There were people during the primary season who wouldn’t vote for )fill in the blank) because either they were divorced or they weren’t pure enough or all sorts of reasons. WE have to come together to get conservatives elected that means primaries too. romney won it because people refused to hang together.
I still think that Romney would have been a better choice than O… and I don’t care if I get flamed. Romney would not have done to the US what O already has. Would he have been great and like Reagan. Of course not but it would have been a start.
Perhaps this time around we will find a way to back a conservative
Romney was lying about at least half of his “core beliefs”
please never ask me to vote for someone we all know is lying to our faces
I won’t
I can live with that list. How does Ted Cruz sound too you? I have already read here lots of belly aching because he ‘can’t’ run because he is not natural born
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Well his record shows he would have. Because we KNOW anything he says changes by the hour. That fact aside, Yes. We have to come together.
And we cannot do that until a portion of the Right decides what they really believe in and what side they are on. I know of no actual ‘purist’ here. Perhaps there are. But the vast majority of us will bend. But there is a huge difference between bending and breaking.
That said....Romney was/is a loser...just like McCain was/is a loser, Just like Dole was/is a loser!!!
Just like the GOPe is a LOSER....
Which takes me to this....The DIM's and the GOOBER's are in this together....( there's no other way to conclude, really...) and nothing short of rebellion by American citizens will stop this.
I predict we all will be fighting amongst ourselves next POTUS election...once again. Because we will have a undesirable candidate tied around our necks again...
I hope I'm wrong.
President Cruz has a nice ring to it.
Well how about this…if Romney had been elected the IRS wouldn’t be run by Lois Lerner and her cohorts, the DOJ wouldn’t have Eric Holder at the head of it, Harry Reid would not have exercised the nuclear option, and all those executive orders during the last two years wouldn’t exist.
How’s that for a difference
Well how about this…if Romney had been elected the IRS wouldn’t be run by Lois Lerner and her cohorts, the DOJ wouldn’t have Eric Holder at the head of it, Harry Reid would not have exercised the nuclear option, and all those executive orders during the last two years wouldn’t exist.
How’s that for a difference?
I am not a fan of Romney or the elites. I wanted anyone other than Romney but as I was faced with O or romney I would have done ANYTHING to keep O out of the WH.
If O has a Chavez streak in him we won’t get another chance.
For me I like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Rand Paul
But he would have instilled the same type of people that ran his campaign and screwed Mass. And considering his record of “Better than Ted Kennedy for the gays’ his military aversion and his willingness to destroy people through lies and the other tactics displayed in the primaries...and his own illegal immigrant problem, and a whole bunch of other 100% contrary to what conservatives claim to believe...
I don’t see them as any better than the human garbage there now. Plus, I agree with Alexander Hamilton. Better the enemy in his own camp than yours.
And, because we're all to be loyal, good and faithful followers of all things R and against all things D, we'll then be expected to trot out and defend each and every one of those insults to our very core beliefs...for the team.
Each definition by which we define ourselves and our nation will be diluted and moderated, as our resolve and our faith and trust in our once great experiment in self governance is progressively pissed away.
Same ol' same old. We've been telling and retelling ourselves this tale since Reagan left the arena and the ending never gets any better no matter how many times we retell it.
None for me thanks...trying to quit.
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