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.”
“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.
can’t argue with true words…. it is time for all good men to come to the aid of their (party) COUNTRY
Learned your lesson on associating with 0bummer yet?
The only way to win, is not to play that game
I did learn a lesson about wasting a vote for Romney
well let’s see I believe that O won the last election and there were lots of conservatives who sat out the presidential portion of the election. They said no way will I vote for the lesser of two evils. It is good to have O for another four years because THEN we will realize what needs to happen.
We are reaping the results of that thinking… we have O for another four (who knows maybe for ever). The reason the lefties win is because they take a hal a loaf or a quarter of a loaf and keep pressing.
I am all for a conservative nominee for the GOP to be president but please let us not engage in trying to find ‘the perfect’ candidate when we can in fact have a ‘good enough’ candidate. We watched Romney and fellow conservatives chew up and spit out any one who wasn’t perfect. We got Romney and folks stayed home.
Hey Glen, welcome to the party. Better late than never.
Now about the gay thing...
The Tea Party/Conservative vote got split between too many candidates, allowing the GOPe candidate to be the last man standing. How do we stop that from happening again?
I think the last election proves that conservatives, at least, are waking up. If the GOP runs the same type of establishment figure they did in '08 and '12 then we'd better get used to seeing Her Royal Thighness and The Great Stainmaker back in the WH.
Only caveat is that Christie fired the people responsible and apologized. Not making excuses, but no one is ever held responsible in Obama administration and it is always someone else’s fault. One may not support Christie because of the abuse and I have no problem with that, but as of yet, no one has shown Christie is on par with Obama.
Beck is right. Christie sets the tone.
agreed….
Romney wasnt ‘good enough’. He was a political twin of the lib he ran against and all his voters empowered the GOP leftward.
That’s the result of lesser evil voting. See the past 30 years for one example after another. Hopefully enough people learned the stupidity of lesser evil voting.
No, not all of us rationalize things and get sucked back in. Many of us do reach a breaking point, where we refuse to sell our souls. It happened to me in 2012.
Move all primaries to a 45-60 day window and rotate which ones go first.
It is impossible to deny that Romney turned to the left and intentionally rejected social conservatives. At various times he supported gay unions, gay adoption, gay scout leaders, gun control, big government health care, and crony capitalism. It is simply undeniable.
Do you honestly think he and his team did that accidentally? It was a STRATEGY. The Romney team strategy was to peel off liberals/moderates from Obama who might have had other issues with Obama.
This was no accidental slip of the tongue on his part. It was throughout his campaign. The strategic thinkers told him that he'd peel off enough liberals to balance the social conservative that he offended.
And the results of this intentional strategy was:
1. The liberals voted for Obama anyway.
2. He succeeded in offending millions of social conservatives who TOOK HIM AT HIS OWN WORD.
So, it is only shallow analysis that lays this at the feet of social conservatives when it was Romney's strategic team who came up with this idea in the first place.
It didn't work. It's his fault. In the same way as Custer was responsible for bad strategy at the Little Big Horn, Romney was responsible for bad strategy in the 2012 election. We can blame others for Custer's epic fail, but he was the leader who engaged at the wrong time, the wrong place, and in the wrong way.
Agree , but with a few minor differences. First off the father of Romneycare was no conservative. Second, progressives don't settle for half a loaf in their candidates at least. Their candidates may mouth a few "moderate" positions (i.e. 0bama's original "rejection" of homosexual marriage and single payer). In the end though he's always believed in those things, he's just saying what he needs to peel away a few Democrats who still have a conscience. He was and always will be a Marxist radical.
Policywise, yes they will settle for half a loaf (the 0bamacare trainwreck in order to get to single payer) , but they never lose sight of the main objective and above all they NEVER let their scandals bog them down. The point is our side needs to reject the McCain's and the Karl Rove candidates who are only in it for their own power.
I agree and a solution to this would be great.
Looking at the US Senate, the exception might be Jeff Sessions. He seems pretty solid in understanding and supporting constitutioanl conservative values.
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