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Bob Beckel Warns of ‘October Surprise’ from Dems
National Review Online ^ | 9/18/2014 | Andrew Johnson

Posted on 09/18/2014 2:52:36 PM PDT by Gorilla44

The polls may suggest Republicans will see gains in this November’s elections, but former Democratic strategist Bob Beckel thinks they shouldn’t get too comfortable. The Five co-host mysteriously signaled Democrats have something up their sleeve.

“I’ll tell you: I would expect an October surprise,” Beckel said on Thursday. “I think I know what is — I’m not going to say it, but I think I know what it is — and it is going to shake things up, and it has to do with national security.”

Beckel’s secrecy comes as President Obama faces perhaps the most significant foreign-policy challenge of his presidency, the growing threat of the Islamic State.


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KEYWORDS: bobbeckel; dirty; dirtytricks; octobersurprise
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To: Gorilla44

Seal raid on al-bagdhadi and dump him in the ocean right next to bin laden. Big applause. National nightmare over. Give obama another nobel peace prize. Democrat landslide. Immediate executive action on immigration now that the borders are safe from terrorists. Republicans look silly oh how could you ever doubt obama he keeps us safe from the boogeymen. When? October 12-20 is the window


81 posted on 09/18/2014 4:20:02 PM PDT by ibewhatibe
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To: Jim from C-Town

Here, have another jumbo shrimp, Bob.


82 posted on 09/18/2014 4:21:38 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is he going to “kill Osama” again?

Maybe he will close Gitmo, turn over all the terrorists to ISIS, so they can be "watched" to make sure they don't continue their terrorist activities.

83 posted on 09/18/2014 4:24:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (If I have a son, I am going to name him Bill, George, Sue, anything but Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: clintonh8r
I watch that show is so I won’t miss it when Fatso finally strokes out.

Will you shed a tear when he does?

84 posted on 09/18/2014 4:32:18 PM PDT by Mark17 (If I have a son, I am going to name him Bill, George, Sue, anything but Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Gorilla44; Jim from C-Town
I wouldn't believe anything that Bob 'I paid a hooker with a check and she blackmailed me' Beckel says.

He's a complete moron in addition to everything else Jim from C-Town mentioned.

Beckel Gets Extorted By Hooker

85 posted on 09/18/2014 4:38:23 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: Gorilla44

I know what it is. Ruth Bader Meinhof will resign and Holder will be nominated to SCOTUS. Automatic RAT turnout stimulator.


86 posted on 09/18/2014 4:47:08 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
the “October Surprise” meme. Happened once so it must be it going to happen every time.

Happened many times.

See this Wikipedia entry for a chronology of October surprises.

-PJ

87 posted on 09/18/2014 4:49:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Gorilla44
Pics of Bob, drunk, wearing one of these?

88 posted on 09/18/2014 4:57:46 PM PDT by W. (All leaders are sensitive to the working class--that's how they avoid belonging to it.)
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To: Perdogg

Your post brought back some mostly great memories. I don’t care much for very many Blacks anymore, but I loved much of Edwin Starr’s music. I hope he’s resting in peace.


89 posted on 09/18/2014 5:03:02 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just hope that the terrorists have checked with Obama’s secretary to ensure that there is some open time on his schedule to handle whatever conflict that the terrorists decide to unfurl on America...if’n he has a golf date or has to go to a fund raiser, Obama will not even know about the event until he reads about in the newspaper, which will be about six months later...whatever video that they push as the cause of the attack, I just hope that it has better production value than the last one...


90 posted on 09/18/2014 5:03:52 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Political Junkie Too; mad_as_he$$
I could add:

-PJ

91 posted on 09/18/2014 5:05:31 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Gorilla44

Now even Jimmah Carter says we have to kill ISIS. Kerry was layin’t it on thick to the code pinkos about how mean thses bad guys are to women.

They are going to show those pics all over the media of McCain schmoozin’ it up with Bagdadhi and the boyz.

The lo infos and those who watch MSM haven’t seen those photos with those terrorists identified in them yet.


92 posted on 09/18/2014 5:14:17 PM PDT by dforest
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To: InterceptPoint

Graphic looks much too masculine to be Obama.


93 posted on 09/18/2014 5:29:31 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Mark17

No.


94 posted on 09/18/2014 5:31:16 PM PDT by sport
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To: Gorilla44

We don’t own the press like they do - but we’ve got Drudge and FreeRepublic. It might be time for Republicans to think in terms of an “October Surprise”...


95 posted on 09/18/2014 5:50:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (Great causes begin as movements, becomes a business, then degenerates into a racket.Eric Hoffer)
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To: Bigg Red
Graphic looks much too masculine to be Obama.

No doubt. But we are talking about an October Surprise here. That means the MSM gets to tell us what is going on. Any surprise will have to be some great accomplishment by O and it will have to be played up big time.

Yes, way to masculine. But wait for the MSM version. It will be even better.

96 posted on 09/18/2014 6:49:56 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: Gorilla44

What are our national security issues?

The FBI put out their top security issue report last month. Read an article about the report here...

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fbi-national-domestic-threat-assessment-omits-islamist-terrorism/

or read the threads on Free Republic

or search for more articles with clips and maybe piece it together.

Anyway, the FBI report leaves out Muslim extremists but most of those groups have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has members in the administration and probably in the FBI so those reports were wiped clean.

Anyone care to elaborate on what Jarrett has planned?


97 posted on 09/18/2014 8:03:24 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Political Junkie Too

How many of those were actually effective? Difference is regular hardball politics and game changing stuff. A surprise in an off election year will be spread over many candidates - not just one.


98 posted on 09/19/2014 4:39:18 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Gorilla44
Bob Beckel grasping for relevancy?
99 posted on 09/19/2014 4:47:53 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

You left out sweat hog, blowhard, and bully. He is also very inarticulate. He has great difficulty getting words past his flapping jowls and, as a result, is very hard to understand.


100 posted on 09/19/2014 4:52:06 AM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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