Bob Beckel Warns of ‘October Surprise’ from Dems

National Review ^ | 09/18/2014 | Andrew Johnson

[Responsibility2nd]

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.

[M Kehoe]

October surprise in a non-presidential election?

I thought Bob was off the cocaine and booze?

5.56mm

[billhilly]

Don’t forget Dick Morris.

[Rockpile]

Beckel is a News Cartel insider. If a Surprise is being staged then it is being planned and organized within a conjunction of our slavemasters in the billionaire club, the DNC and the Big News propagandist leadership.

If something is really being concocted Beckel may have heard of it through his rumor web or may have been intentionally tipped to put a scare in the Gutless Old Party brass.

Guess we will see in a few weeks.

[Little Ray]

Yes, but the ‘Pubbies are doing their very best to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
Stifling the Tea Party, GOP-E candidates, etc.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yeah, I guess I was posing more of a rhetorical question. I understand that this stuff works. It would be nice, though, if people on the national level would get up and address the Surprise one it happens: that our “leaders” are breaking scandals on their opponents or causing genuine crises purely in the interest of their own job/power security. And it’s even really worse than that: it shows contempt for the people. As you point out, a lot of the people are deserving of that contempt, and the manipulators have judged them correctly. It’s just that the rest of us have to pay the price for it too.

[txhurl]

Whatever it is I hope it tracks to Boehner.

[AmusedBystander]

The burning of the Reichstag?

[BeauBo]

1. Use the military to wag the dog - conduct some big operation or tack a high profile scalp on the wall

2. Reveal accusations blaming Republicans for ISIS. Pictures of John McCain plotting with Abu Bakr al Baghdadi perhaps.

[LucyT]

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Bob Beckel Warns of ‘October Surprise’ from Dems

Thanks, Vel.

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("The Cloward–Piven strategy involves draining and overloading the system in order to get the political change they want.")

[laplata]

Possible October Surprises to harm Republicans will come from grandstanding accusations by Harry Reid, and followup “Investigations” by AG Holder’s DOJ, IMHO of course.

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What accusations?

It would not work and probably backfire. People would see through it. IMO

[laplata]

Possible October Surprises to harm Republicans will come from grandstanding accusations by Harry Reid, and followup “Investigations” by AG Holder’s DOJ, IMHO of course.

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What accusations?

[clearcarbon]

In October he’ll announce his “final solution.” Executions to begin on Halloween.

[IWONDR]

“There is no such possible event.”

is it possible it has something to do with our AG declaring police culpability in the death in Ferguson?

[Old Sarge]

Knowing that, wouldn’t thinking people just observe that event and say, “Oh, that was the October Surprise,” and then just go ahead and vote the way the had planned to before the Surprise?

The operative word is, THINKING.

Leftists don't think, they feel. And they know that 47% of the public will never vote anything but Leftist, because of the way the Left makes them feel. The balance of the votes needed to win any election are manufactured via vote fraud.

Yes, there will be an October Surprise, quite likely in the form of another government shutdown starting 01 OCT - followed by the EBT cards being turned off (damn those evil white Rethuglicans, the cry will ring out) and a few burning cities will swing the vote.