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Bob Beckel Warns of ‘October Surprise’ from Dems
National Review ^ | 09/18/2014 | Andrew Johnson

Posted on 09/19/2014 9:30:46 AM PDT by 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.


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To: Responsibility2nd

October surprise in a non-presidential election?

I thought Bob was off the cocaine and booze?

5.56mm


61 posted on 09/19/2014 10:59:02 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Leaning Right

Don’t forget Dick Morris.


62 posted on 09/19/2014 11:00:40 AM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: All

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.


63 posted on 09/19/2014 11:00:55 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


64 posted on 09/19/2014 11:08:07 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

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.


65 posted on 09/19/2014 11:12:13 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Rockpile

Whatever it is I hope it tracks to Boehner.


66 posted on 09/19/2014 11:28:30 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The burning of the Reichstag?


67 posted on 09/19/2014 11:46:19 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


68 posted on 09/19/2014 11:58:59 AM PDT by BeauBo
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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.")

69 posted on 09/19/2014 12:15:43 PM PDT by LucyT (If youÂ’re not paranoid, you donÂ’t know whatÂ’s going on.)
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To: Graewoulf

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.


What accusations?

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


70 posted on 09/19/2014 1:20:05 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Graewoulf

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.


What accusations?


71 posted on 09/19/2014 4:00:09 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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


72 posted on 09/19/2014 4:04:49 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Louis Foxwell

“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?


73 posted on 09/19/2014 7:47:17 PM PDT by IWONDR
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican; Responsibility2nd
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.

74 posted on 09/20/2014 6:04:00 AM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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