Posted on 10/08/2008 6:39:00 AM PDT by Scythian
Glenn is beside himself today. He made a great observation "Imagine how different the debate would have been had Romney or Giuliani been our candidate".
Of course Nationalizing mortgages among other things has him going, but he also said as if coming from McCain "Screw you conservatives, I gave you Palin". Well Beck says it's time to find out now who we are ..."
kinda like masturbation.
His point about working now to simply try and avoid filibuster proof majorities is spot on.
We are in deep doo-doo, folks. Deep.
Shouldn’t have been townhall format, IMO. It doesn’t feel as comfortable taking off the gloves and assuming attack mode in that kind of environment. It’s too bad the first debate wasn’t the townhall and the one last night the more formal one.
The GOP serioulsy needs to reform the nomination process. The reason we have McCain is thanks to the losse, early nomination process that allows liberal states to essentialy weed out nominees that might do better in other states where the GOP base is stronger. If we don’t do anything about this by 2012, we’re screwed again.
Took words right out of my mouth!!
Very true South Texan, McCain was nominated before real conservatives ever got a chance (by design no doubt), it seems we’re just useful idiots to have around ...
Vote against Obama then find out who we are later.
Of course we had to get rid of Giuliani because he dressed in drag one time, and Romney because he wears magic underwear.
Oh yeah, like this forum would support Giuliani. The man was trashed as much as McCain was for not being conservative enough.
It wasn't. The setting was townhall-like, but the moderating and questions were almost identical to the last two (VP included) podium debates. Browkaw even broke down and started asking his own questions about half way through.
Giuliani’s son wouldn’t even endorse him for President. Rudy’s family life was what did him in, though I do like him a lot.
Romney morphed himself into a right-wing Republican when the people are looking for a more moderate persona. Watching Romney campaign with the Hispanics in Florida was a painful thing to watch.
People are angry at the Wall Street melt-down, and want to see higher taxes on multi-millionaires and lower taxes on small companies.
Well, in either case, Romney and Giuliani could have removed themselves from the bailout disaster, standing with the citizens who were clearly against it. McCain could have chosen to go down that path, especially with the earmarks added to the Senate bill, but he chose not to.
Actually, we needed to get rid of both of them as they were as or more Liberal than McCain.
Yes, but the two candidates were so close to people. McCain is less likely to attack when in that close physical proximity to people who he’s trying to win over. It’s just not a comfortable venue or setting to bring up Ayers and so on. And I think he sensed that and that’s why he never took off the gloves.
That was my exact thought when I read the headline.
A large contingent of FReepers consistently attacked the other candidates all through the process. It happened to Rudy, Romney, Huckabee and some of the lesser lights. All in favor of supporting Hunter (who never really had a chance) or Fred (who never really wanted a chance).
So our choice in the next three weeks is to 1) concede to Obama because we don't like McCain, or 2) continue to fight for McCain because he's still the better (if not best) choice.
We're facing liberal control of the executive and legislative branch (and very possibly the judicial branch). Reality is we're screwed either way, but a Sarah Palin Vice Presidency at least provides some hope.
The campaign for 2010 control of the Congress begins on November 5. And that just sux.
Speaking of Brokaw, I saw him on MSNBC this morning and he looked pretty happy with himself. He said something about the economy being pretty good for ten years or so, now it’s not good and people are ready for a change. I wanted to reach through the screen and slap him. I don’t know why the McCain campaign would agree to have people with an agenda running the debates.
We were talking about this last night. I do think Romney would have given more of a fight but they would have made him out to be a rich dude and we know how the dims feel about rich dudes, unless you are a dim and are rich.
Or far better, Duncan Hunter - he knows his stuff, is sincere & able to connect with people in getting it across, and still would’ve been able to hand Obama his a** with a smile on his face. Case study in missed opportunities, folks.
The candidates that we have ended up with are a very good expression of our much declined culture. Could not have been any other way. The only way out/up is to reverse our cultural spiritual decline. It is so bad that most of the people here(FR) don’t even realize it.
People want “compassionate” candidates/officials who will pander to and accommodate their covetousness, envy, jealousy, bitterness. People want someone(government) to pick up after their irresponsible and profligate living. They want someone to make sure that there are abortions available. Etc. Until this crap change we continue the slide. There is no other way.
The campaign for 2010 control of the Congress begins on November 5. And that just sux.”
Yes, but that is all we have now that the Rebublicans
have lost the election and the White House.
Thanks for posting today’s Glenn Beck thread. My wife is an avid listener on satellite radio. BUMP for Glenn!
Romney/Palin would have been a pair
I am one of the more pessimistic members of this forum, but come on, the election hasn't been held yet. And a lot could still happen in the next 27 days. I think the speeches by Palin on Obama and his background may actually be getting traction with the voters.
Well, sadly for Virginians, we have a Governor’s race next year.
I’m already tired.
Rass has McCain picking up two points on O while O holds at 51.
Zogby has the O up by only TWO points. This is far from a landslide.
Of course with idiots mouthing the democrat talking points that the election is over in hopes of getting republicans to stay home and make it so, is sad.
Gulliani may not be “conservative enough”, but at least he will fight for the job. John McCain says over and over that he would rather “lose and election than lose a war”. The “war” is now defined as the direction this country will be taken in the next 8 years and John McCain is not interested in fighting. He is saying “Screw America!, I have my reputation to think about.”. We bought a ticket on the Straight Talk Express, but now it looks like the trip has been cancelled.
I was happy to hear that McCain would not pick Brokaw for Secretary of Treasury! What a stupid question that was...
I think we need to hitch our wagon the Jindal, I think he’s our best hope for 2012. For me, the jury is still out on Palin. But for now, I would prefer Jindal over Palin.
I honestly think that Giuliani was the GOP's best bet against Obama. Rudy would not have put up with all of the crap that has come out of the Obama/DEM campaign.
Increasingly hard for me to buy that as McCain becomes more bipartisan by the minute.
No Glenn, IMAGINE NEWT.
The undecideds would have thought he was a "mean racist".
A much as I love Palin, I tend to agree with you. Jindal seems to be a better articulator of conservative principles, at least from what I’ve heard so far.
But to be fair, she’s been forced to parrot McCain’s position on this campaign.
It is interesting to look at the population breakdown in this nation and to see just how much control over the nation conservatives could have if we were smart enough to band together. The current presidential electoral college favors the democrats. The democrat nominee needs only to carry what 17 or 18 states to win? If conservatives controled the remaining 33 states, the senate is the place where all left wing crap can be killed off. So we’ve got options if the left decides to go Karl Marx on us in the event the messiah wins. Hopefully, McCain pulls this out. Or should I say Palin. she seems to be the one fighting the good fight these days.
Palin vs. Jindal? Let’s not give up on 2008 quite yet.
The polls are tightening: Obama up 2 in Zogby, 6 in Rass.
I find Glenn in total hysteria mode these days. He needs a swig or two to calm him back down.
One thing Republicans like McCain and Palin need to do is declare all out war against the Liberal media. Don’t just suck it up . . go into attack mode.
the nomination process was controlled by the press. We need to change that.
Senators are talkers, not leaders. There is a reason America doesn't pick Presidents from the Senate and these two proved it last night.
Glenn just said if you do nothing else, listen to him when he comes back from this current break, tune in folks, something huge is going down.
If all we get is Palin in attack mode, it might be enough.
National primary day from now on so the idiots in a couple states don’t get to choose another McCain before I get to vote.
Sounds like a typical ploy to keep one tuned into his show. If something "hugh" was really going down, he wouldn't have waited until after the break. My guess is we'll be disappointed in what he says after the break.
Please keep us posted. Thanks.
i agree about the nomination process. Even though he might not really had the fire in the belly I would have liked to vote for Fred. Even Mitt would have been ok. I don’t see how our party could have ever united behind Guiliani because of his abortion policy and he has wife problems.
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