Quotes of the day
posted at 10:35 pm on October 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Beck appears to be building something. His television show audience is growing, despite a well-publicized boycott, and his radio show calls itself the third highest in the country. (Radio audience measurements can be fickle.) His newsletter has more than 750,000 subscribers. He’s authored three best-selling books. As the attention to Beck has increased — as Beck has become persona non grata among elites — who, let’s face it, also love to cover him as a phenomenon they can’t quite understand — Beck seems to enhanced his standing with his target audience.
Given that 2010 is an election year, it would be logical to assume that Beck is putting together a mass voter registration and mobilization project. It’s a tricky proposition…
Still, if Beck becomes part of the apparatus that fuses into one movement irritated Republicans and angry conservatives and fickle Ron Paul libertarians — he’s going to become a major electoral player in 2010.”
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Via Greg Hengler.
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He sounds like Hillary when she claims to be multi-lingual in the South.
He’s talking down to them. If they fall for it they deserve him. Let’s hope there are enough who don’t.
He is the most arrogant person to ever breathe.
Schadenfreude on October 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM
You forgot Michele Bachmann.
BTW. Pelosi is after her seat with everything she’s got. Donate to Michele
katy on October 15, 2009 at 11:05 PM
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I hear Barney Frank’s after lots of seats in Congress…
Dopenstrange on October 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM
What’s with the logout?
Schadenfreude on October 16, 2009 at 12:02 AM
How is that Boycott working.
BigMike252 on October 16, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Just want to say, man, you have the coolest user name around. Thankya. Thankyavermuch.
And I agree with your point.
OneVision on October 16, 2009 at 12:05 AM
What’s with the logout?
Schadenfreude on October 16, 2009 at 12:02 AM
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Was that question for me, Schad?
Dopenstrange on October 16, 2009 at 12:05 AM
This is why I think palin is the smartest pol out there. Out of all the national leader she is the first to “get it” She has set herself up to co-op the ron paul movement witha strong military and forgeign policy platform. She is angleing in on fiscal conservatives and she has the social con vote there in a general election. Beck gets it, Palin gets it. mitt and huck not so much they are playing last election. Palin is looking forward to 2010. I think rush and Levin are starting to get it and are trying to steer the movement back into the GOP fold. they are afraid of a third party. Yet it is the elected leaders of the GOp that have no clue and continue to push the base away into third party hands. If Palin doesn’t get the nomination I see the death of the GOP has the party will once and for all fracture. either the GOP elites give up power and come to the big tent of liberty and freedom or they will go the way of the whigs.
unseen on October 16, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Obama has his own Mini Me, in the blue shirt to the right of him in the crowd. And the woman in front of that guy looks like she’s sitting on six Fenatyl patches.
Sharke on October 16, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Awwe, heck. He probably gave each attendee a $10.00 WalMart or 7-11 Gift card to show.
Re-watch the video. Watch the unease of the attendees.. Pause every few seconds. Then, parse his words.
This man is a puppet. A message maker. Not a leader. We know this is true just by watching his leadership style. What? No leadership style, you ask?
Please, take the time to parse, pause and reflect. Do this in 5 second intervals and pause the video. Play the video again and again and again and use the pause feature. Slice by slice. Look at the audience. Look at their eyes. What are they looking at? What and who is Obama looking at?
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 12:10 AM
I would love to see Glenn Beck in elected office!
Move over, Mr. Smith!
Khun Joe on October 16, 2009 at 12:11 AM
OMG – that is absoultely hilarious!
OneVision on October 16, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Ok, just checking…your original comment had me wondering.
AUINSC on October 16, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Seriously… Take your eyes off of OBAMA.
LOOK AT THE AUDIENCE. Look at their eyes. The eyes are the gateway to the soul. These people are uneasy. In the Big Easy. Use the pause feature.
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Correction: “absolutely”.
Spell-check, where art thou?
OneVision on October 16, 2009 at 12:13 AM
test
Spathi on October 16, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Donated yesterday. Michele is doing her own work on ACORN and turning up some good stuff. Glenn had her on the show today. We need more people with spine like Michele in the Republican party or they will lose all of us to a third party.
Christian Conservative on October 16, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Look at their eyes.. The unease. Amazing, that pause feature.
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Now, look at these eyes. White House Communications Director. Niiiiiiiiice.
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 12:17 AM
What we should have is no government. The economy would skyrocket with 0 taxes and the free market would take care of crime better than any monopolistic, inifficient state can
Libertarian Joseph on October 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM
How about a video parody of Barack Obama as Joe Isuzu?
There seems to be a very pronounced disconnect between ObamaCare, and other things, as the Salesman in Chief pitches it and it’s reality. He just says it’s whatever he thinks will sell the best while seemingly not even bothering to look at the product.
Barack Obama is to Health Care, and a number of other things, what Joe Isuzu was to cars.
Joe Isuzu
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joe Isuzu was a fictional spokesman used in a series of television advertisements for Isuzu. Created by the Madison Avenue ad agency Della Femina, Travisano, and Partners, the segments aired on American television in 1986-90, reaching their zenith in 1987 after the character was featured during Super Bowl XXI. Played by actor David Leisure, Joe Isuzu was a pathological liar who made outrageous and overinflated claims about Isuzu’s cars. (One commercial even cast him as the Boy who Cried Wolf.) The campaign was resurrected briefly in 1999 and continued until 2001 to promote several cars such as the Isuzu Axiom. Famous quotes:
* “You have my word on it.”
* “If I’m lying, may lightning hit my mother.” (“Good luck, Mom!” appears on screen.)
* “It has more seats than the Astrodome!”
* “Hi, I’m Joe Isuzu and I used my new Isuzu pickup truck to carry a 2,000 pound cheeseburger.”
* “The Isuzu Impulse: faster than a speeding—[catches a bullet in his teeth]—well, you know.”
The character became a fixture in American popular culture.
Barack Obama is the Joe Isuzu of American politics.”
MB4 on October 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM
That guy has had more balls bounced off his chin than the clown face at putt-putt.
Aviator on October 16, 2009 at 12:19 AM
“as Beck has become persona non grata among elites … Beck seems to enhanced his standing with his target audience.”
No shit, Sherlock? Think the two might be connected??
chris999 on October 16, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Gee, everyone certainly was all wee-wee’d up in that crowd, huh?
Dopenstrange on October 16, 2009 at 12:20 AM
He’ll help republicans in 2010, but he may end up as another anti-neoconservative force in 2012.
We can only hope, but I think there is some tension in the barnyard still brewing up right now as a continuation of the Paul campaign.
Spathi on October 16, 2009 at 12:20 AM
That guy has had more balls bounced off his chin than the clown face at putt-putt.
Aviator on October 16, 2009 at 12:19 AM
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Ha ha ha ha ha ….Superb.
Dopenstrange on October 16, 2009 at 12:21 AM
“I Don’t Feel Noways Tired”
Speakup on October 16, 2009 at 12:22 AM
So what’s Hillary doing for fun these days?
chris999 on October 16, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Don’t. Even. Want. To. Go. There.
:-)
coldwarrior on October 16, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Seriously… Take your eyes off of OBAMA.
LOOK AT THE AUDIENCE. Look at their eyes. The eyes are the gateway to the soul. These people are uneasy. In the Big Easy. Use the pause feature.
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 12:13 AM
They probably noticed the courtesy security provided by the local New Black Panthers,Seiu and remnants of Acorn.
heshtesh on October 16, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Almost like looking through a scope at a bunch of hostages.
coldwarrior on October 16, 2009 at 12:30 AM
No, sorry, not at all. Just can’t get logged out of HA, at least not in the usual way.
Schadenfreude on October 16, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Keeps popping up.
Schadenfreude on October 16, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Welcome to the Hotel California…
[Had a similar problem earlier today. Opened a new window. Was sent to the bio page. Logged on again, then logged out. Took a few tries.]
coldwarrior on October 16, 2009 at 12:39 AM
It’s hotel california.
lorien1973 on October 16, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Not much since Buddy was hit by that car.
Aviator on October 16, 2009 at 12:42 AM
As for the video…folks this was New Orleans. The ones that could leave have gone. And if this speech was made in the 9th ward like I think it was… nothing is going to change. I don’t care how many whiz bang speechs you give.
Dire Straits on October 16, 2009 at 12:42 AM
+ 100 Amen! Excellent Post.
Dire Straits on October 16, 2009 at 12:46 AM
OK, I brought myself to watch it.
That isn’t a President. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not a President.
It’s like a cult meeting. Full of insane cultists chanting about nothing.
I’ve seen nothing like it in my life.
Alana on October 16, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Obama is like the orchestra leader on the Titanic:
“Strike up another rousing melody! We’re just getting started!”
And the pacified suckers applaud as their ankles feel their first swirl of icy saltwater rising.
“No more lifeboats?! No problem! Can we swim in 33 degree water! Yes We Can!”
The disconnect is demented, and less amusing by the minute.
profitsbeard on October 16, 2009 at 12:48 AM
“I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m… “
Shy Guy on October 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM
It is almost morbidly comical…waiting for the guys in the purple t-shirts to roll out vats of kool-aid while their “leader” tells them that “they” are coming for them and everyone has to line up in a final act of resistance against “them” and drink the kool-aid, children first, then the wowmen and then the men, because the “leader” has ordained it.
Cult like following? Yep. Indeed. The “leader” thrives on it. The people willingly go along. Pathetic.
coldwarrior on October 16, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Zero is just getting started, almost just in time to finish as a lame ass duck, which he will be in about 1 month.
Yes Beck is starting something alright. Beck is desperately trying to head off a violent confrontation he sees coming.
His efforts aren’t any indication that it’ll work, but at least he’s trying. Meanwhile that racist P.O.S. in the white house is doing the exact opposite. Beck was right about that bit too, zero IS a racist. If Glenn Beck was black obambo never would have even acknowledged what Beck says in any way shape or form, but since he’s white, it’s war on FOX.
Screw you Obama. /spit.
Spiritk9 on October 16, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Beck has yet to refute allegations of misconduct that happened in 1990. His silence is deafening.
Decider on October 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM
And your obtuseness is breathtaking.
Aviator on October 16, 2009 at 12:57 AM
So AP do you really think that Glenn Beck is the GOP’s best hope? I can not think you actually believe that. If so, it will be as successful as Hannity’s “Stop Obama Express”. That worked out really well.
Decider on October 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Dire Straits on October 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Beck could stop the controversy by just addressing it head on. He has not and it grows with each passing day. What does he have to hide?
Decider on October 16, 2009 at 1:00 AM
What do you mean by “mentally underdeveloped”? You mean like, uneducated or ignorant? Just curious.
chris999 on October 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM
Most likely before your life, but….
Germany, 1933
China, 1949
Russia, 1928
Just a few arbitrary places and times….not important really, just dates zero the anti-hero would like people to ignore.
Spiritk9 on October 16, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Beck and Rush and Palin and Fox must be doing something right, considering all the effort the White House and the Dems are putting in to trying to shut them down.
The Obama Administration and the Dems on the Hill sure as hell aren’t involved in this huge effort in order to actually “help” Conservatives.
coldwarrior on October 16, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Are they yelling in Atlanta?
The Ugly American on October 16, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Nice misdirection. Typical leftist BS. Where are you from? You are either not from the US or you are are a 20 y/o indoctrinated moron who has no clue about history. Dick Cheney had a great suggestion for Leahy, it would work well for you too.
Aviator on October 16, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Decider, the device that you and the liberals are trying to apply to Rush and Beck is,if you’ll excuse the expression, idiotic. You just make up something out of thin air, and say “well prove that such and such isn’t true! Prove a negative! Do you see how dumb that is?
chris999 on October 16, 2009 at 1:07 AM
I have, in Deutschland.
Johan Klaus on October 16, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Just spent an hour and a half recording (digitally) many of Obama’s speeches, promises, rhetoric and audience reactions; video and audio. I figured I had better save it while it’s still available.
Amazing. Looking back, all that hype? It was staged. Look at attendees eyes. They look toward left or right, and then clap hands. Some even ask for cues.
Your heart will sink… Ever remember how you felt the first time you were ever decieved?
/gulp.
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Beck is a private citizen, as is Rush, and Palin…
And Obama is the President.
The idea that is it permissible, even proper, that it is now official United States policy to go after private citizens for voicing political views should strike terror into the hearts of all Americans.
But, that does not seem to be the case. Too many Americans try to equate Beck, or Rush, and now Palin, as some sort of official evil force, thus worthy of the efforts of the United States government to shut them up.
After Obama has left the White House, in about 1192 days, that precedent set by those who think going after US citizens at the direction of the White House may be in for a true epiphany….and the new ruling Party and new President “may” just do what was done in the previous four Obama years, all with the approval of Congress and a large segment of the American people.
Then, they will cry and complain about how “unfair” it all is.
I hope it doesn’t come to this, but in every other dictatorial regime in our history, what was allowed to pass before becomes commonplace after.
Once we stray from the Constitution in such a large degree as this Administration seems bent on doing, what is left to be called right from a Constitutional perspective?
Free and protected speech? Once we cross that Rubicon, as it appears we are doing, with the Obama War on FoxNews, there is no going back. Precedence becomes accepted law.
But that seems to be beyond the ken of most of those on the Left. Unless, of course, they plan on a one-party-ruling state in store for America.
coldwarrior on October 16, 2009 at 1:18 AM
Since you returned from Germany, are you still a neo-NAZI?
Johan Klaus on October 16, 2009 at 1:18 AM
FLD-B:
2/7/08 Tulane: Snippets:
This will be a “bottom up” sacrifice to the people. Imagine the impossible. Imagine the unseen, determination to work for it. We are in a City where Slaves met originally in the Congo. They met to raise their voices in improbable joy. A young man named Louis, from the back of town played the first tunes. In the cityy where Jackson turned back the British and a great port came to be.
Races, religions and languages got all mixed up. Now there is something different, special and new. An imperfect place has been made more perfect through its promise of forgiveness. In the wake of this “quintecentially” (is that a word? it’s spoken by Obama) American cities greatests tests is a test that President Corn (?) and president Frances (?) and so many political leaders and community leaders and ordinary people were able to work throught. We see the stirrings of a new day. this great university is well into another academic year…..
“This is not right for America.” “Trust is Broken” We cannot deal in half measures. There are silent storms of poverty, inequality and injustice before Katrina.
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All recorded, digitally.
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 1:23 AM
You are wasting time my friend… BO has already given the Queen of England an iPod full of HIS speeches. Why do you want to duplicate.
Dire Straits on October 16, 2009 at 1:23 AM
The perpetual campaign.
csdeven on October 16, 2009 at 1:27 AM
FLD-B ds00167:
Entire speech recorded from 2006: Snippets:
“I’ll take care of you” Let’s talk about Jesus and his SErmon on the Mount *date 5/5/07.
8/26/07: Americans must have Federal help and an absolute commitment to a symbol. I am your rock.
DS 00167:
I am the foundation of the rock. I am my brother’s keeper. This is where the renewal began and the deep darkness is left. We are taking back America in 2006. We are at a crossroads in American history.
Things have got to change. I have big dreams. We must work toward a common good agenda. I am a wise man.
Obama invokes Alan Keyes and a woman named Margarite Lewis? 105 years old… someone for the “Common Good America”
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Yes we can
I’m just gittin startay
Fi-ed up
Raday togo
So what was special about this campaign stop ?
macncheez on October 16, 2009 at 1:31 AM
LMAO! Well, what I posted were snippets. All of the speechifyin has been burned onto CD and DVD for safekeeping. After all, he’s famous and well… ya can’t record famous peeples now kenya?
Key West Reader on October 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM
There is a Republican challenger for House Blue Dog Dem Gene Taylor in MS; his name is Joe Tegerdine. Before I committed to him I sent Becks 5 principles to him via email with the ? In or Out?
He responded ‘In’ so I am supporting him financially and with my time. Each HA reader must find a candidate that represents real change in 2010 and get behind them. The incumbents have money and a voting base and an organization. We must have more Passion if changes are to occur. Up off your butts and get to work.
His website is http://www.Joetegerdine.com
GnuBreed on October 16, 2009 at 1:39 AM
He doesn’t care what happens — to himself, to the people he cares about, to the citizens of the country he was elected to lead — as long as he can still find people who will scream for him.
Jim Treacher on October 16, 2009 at 1:43 AM
We will support but hasn’t Taylor been in office for 20 or so years???
Dire Straits on October 16, 2009 at 1:44 AM
Treacher.. You are the MAN!!!
Dire Straits on October 16, 2009 at 1:45 AM
See Decider, who’s a perfect specimen.
Plus, internalize what Treacher and profitsbeard said.
Schadenfreude on October 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM
I agree. If we don’t get a libertarian or conservative GOP candidate to run against Obama, it could be over. The new party would probably give Obama a second term, but the GOP would eventually fade and go the way of the Whigs which would be better for the country in the medium to long-term.
Right now, Sarah is the one now that would be big-tent plus come from the outside to clean up DC.
Sapwolf on October 16, 2009 at 2:16 AM
I think it has been 16 years. Doesn’t matter. His district went for McCain in 2008 so there are plenty of ‘potential votes’ against him. He has been against health care reform but for the stimulus. Hell I’ve voted for him 6 times! But NOW is the time for change, throughout Congress. If lots of faces do not change, we will keep getting the same results.
GnuBreed on October 16, 2009 at 2:16 AM
Will Obama bring out his clipped snooty fake Britishy accent to sing ” I’m just getting started / firedup, ready to go” during his Nobel acceptance speech ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L489QHEQa_4
macncheez on October 16, 2009 at 2:27 AM
Even the faithful are starting to lose it.
They’re either going to turn into full on flat out zombies… or reality’s going to kick in… really hard for these folks… so much so that they go full on batsh*t crazy.
Chaz706 on October 16, 2009 at 3:08 AM
I worry about the zombieism the poor kids that sing his praises are having thrust upon themselves. Moronic parents and evil, vile Communist teachers standing there watching these kids sing the praises of our demonic leader.
Jeff from WI on October 16, 2009 at 5:22 AM
It depends, if those people become part of a third party movement, it will be a gift to Democrats. Plain and simple. But then again, Democrats have been a sort of gift to Beck and his career, so maybe he does not mind.
Terrye on October 16, 2009 at 5:47 AM
Well President Traitor, we’re not tired either! FUBO!
Viper1 on October 16, 2009 at 6:21 AM
No third party movements, please!!! If he goes that route the Dems might as well finance whatever campaign he is cooking up.
He repeats the idiotic mantra day after day that Republicans are “just as bad as Democrats”, yet oddly enough this b.s. statement is usually made after he has demonstrated (correctly) how many Marxists who think Mao is the greatest philosopher evah are in the Obama White House.
Glenn, we get that there are too many RINOS in the GOP, but, please provide evidence that the Bush W.H. was teeming with people who adored Che’ and Hugo before you continue on with the meme that “they’re the same”.
Buy Danish on October 16, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Beck has yet to refute allegations of misconduct that happened in 1990. His silence is deafening.
Decider on October 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM
I consider a defamation lawsuit adressing what didn’t happen in 1990. Typical lib BS
kathleen on October 16, 2009 at 7:10 AM
Hmmm How about those two sitting behind the O, they weren’t clapping, chanting, or standing at the appropriate time?
I’d suspect they are MIA today for no properly offering homage.
What is the penalty for that theses days, anyone know?
right wing chicky on October 16, 2009 at 7:15 AM
Agree with Danish; no third party movement please. Clean house within the Republican Party! Remove John McCain and Lindsey Loser for starters. Conservative leaders is what this country needs to get back on track.
Keemo on October 16, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Terrye on October 16, 2009 at 5:47 AM
The gift Glenn received that revitalized his career is called sobriety and faith.
Keemo on October 16, 2009 at 7:19 AM
“Let me tell you. Those folks who are trying to stand in the way of progress. I don’t quit.”
Once again, the President attacks huge chunks of the American people and threatens them.
pearson on October 16, 2009 at 7:22 AM
my husband went to Roanoke VA yesterday (never the bastion of liberalism) to a CLE conference (continuing legal ed). he said the trial lawyers were snickering at Fox News. because my husband is a judge & barred by Virginia Judicial Ethics from discussing politics, he could say nothing.
yet, don’t these trial lawyers get it? they have something–a few dollars & probably some investments. the healthcare bill is going to TAKE IT all.
kelley in virginia on October 16, 2009 at 7:31 AM
Part of the problem with HOTAIR and Beck is the unconscious, or conscious, bias you have towards him. For you to suddenly realize he’s building toward something means you are watching, or worse, listening to him.
He is. I hope he doesn’t try a third party but instead identifies people in office who are willing to do it right and create a core for the next conservative movement.
It is one thing to talk about it, and another to act. He’s managed to do both. Odd and quirky as he is, that is an accomplishment that should be noted by everyone, including you guys here.
The best thing he has done was identify and expose the “progressive” movement inside the last several administrations. Codeville from Am. Spect has a killer article about that. Spooky stuff about big tables and “stakeholders”, government running the country with the big boys (unions and major corporations) assisting. Leaving the rest of us out in the cold. (Think Italy and Mussolini, Argentina and Peron) Here is my article and the link to Am Spec. It goes a long way to explaining why “water is running up hill.”
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/10/15/i-hate-being-right-especially-on-this-american-spectator-outlines-our-future-not-good/
archer52 on October 16, 2009 at 7:35 AM
If so, Beck would only be the conduit where all us conservatives irritated the GOP has betrayed its values and become the property of rat bastard political traitors like John McCain and Olympia Snowe.
highhopes on October 16, 2009 at 7:36 AM
I don’t think a third party is the answer, but I am certainly not sure what is. As much as I like Sarah, I don’t see her as a candidate. The LameStreamMedia has been too efficient in destroying her credibility, and she didn’t help by leaving the Governor’s office before her term was up. I have some hope for a ressurgence of true Constitutional Conservatism and maybe Beck and the 912 movement can make that happen. But Odamna has already done so much lasting damage to our nation that I fear we may never recover. Our dollar is decreasing in value with every passing day. We have debt that cannot ever be paid. We are losing our rights at an alarming rate. And our cities are approaching the boiling point. I fear it may end in violence even as I pray for a true conservative leader to emerge.
Crusader Rabbit on October 16, 2009 at 7:40 AM
crusader rabbit: do you live in a city? i live in the country. my brain tells me we will have some violence in cities once the money dries up or massive inflation hits, but i don’t see the tension every day as a city dweller might.
meanwhile, out here in the country, our land values are so low that a pizza delivery boy can own his own 40 acres & a mule. c’mon out here. learn to hunt/fish/raise a garden.
kelley in virginia on October 16, 2009 at 7:44 AM
Every now and then, America needs a revolution.I figure it’s time for another very soon. It’ll be the right versus the left. It’ll be bloody.
Jeff from WI on October 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM
Agreed but the first step has to be getting rid of Michael Steele and putting in a real hard-charging conservative Republican. I personally like Steele but he’s not the right guy for the job. We need a reincarnation of Lee Atwater not a Casper Milquetoast.
highhopes on October 16, 2009 at 7:56 AM
oh yeah, Lee Atwater. i’m with ya on that.
kelley in virginia on October 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Kelley in Virginia, I live in the Tampa Saint Petersburg metro and would love to get back to my own country roots. I’d be there today if I could get enough cash out of my home (down nearly 50%) to make a move.
I see the violence emerging to a greater degree when the KoolAide drinkers realize they will not get their “Odamna Money.” There is already great anger in cities like Chicago and Detroit. Los Angeles is plagued by daily gang violence and the poor folk there are curtailed in their right to armed self-defense. As the value of our currency falls to new lows, the anger can only build.
As Beck frequently says, we need to return to our faith and regular prayer. I know I am back in church after a 25 year absence and I have managed to regain a modicum of hope. These are perilous times, Kelley.
By the way, I do hunt and fish–got a pig with my 30-30 about a month ago.
Crusader Rabbit on October 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Revolution may be too loaded a word. Especially with a corrupt thugocracy in place in DC. What is needed, without doubt, is a change in the predictable balance of power where the political class protects one another’s status while they screw ordinary Americans. If Beck shakes things up and annoys rat bastard political traitors like McCain, all the better.
highhopes on October 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Something everyone needs to try to get their minds around is that the President is not the most important element in the mix. The way to stop the flow of blood currently being suffered by Lady Liberty, the place to do battle for 2010 is the Senate. Conservitives would only have to pick up a couple of seats there to take it back, and that would stop a lot of the left’s agenda dead in it’s tracks. Think SCOTUS appointment confirmations and you’ll see that the Senate is the key. And right now the Senate is ripe to se a shift to the right.
MikeA on October 16, 2009 at 8:03 AM
As much as I love Hot Air, not being able to log out is taking it a bit far….:)
beachgirlusa on October 16, 2009 at 8:04 AM
“fickle Ron Paul libertarians”
Fickle? Isn’t this phrase an oxymoron? Or do you mean fickle because libertarians aren’t going to be on the nuts of somebody who claims to be for freedom and smaller government but explodes it, usually by pointing at the other side and saying “look over there”. The limited government ideology is rather easy to understand, it is politicians and their blind supporters who are “fickle”. Frankly people who sat on their hands and complained mainly about Democrats when they weren’t in power, while Republicans spent us into oblivion, and then all of the sudden realize this only in 2009, are “fickle”.
LevStrauss on October 16, 2009 at 8:06 AM
highhopes on October 16, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Amen on that highhopes.
Example: Here in my adopted state of Montana, the GOP leadership is some 50K in dept and literally has been closed for business for all practical purposes. We currently have a pure grassroots effort taking place, and are rebuilding from scratch. We have asked Mr. Steele for help on many fronts, and have been ignored.
Keemo on October 16, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Nothing inaccurate in what you posted but I would suggest you are thinking too small. The US is a two party system and designed to stay that way so let’s leave the idea of third party candidates aside. To take back the Senate and the House and ultimately the Presidency, the GOP needs to rally the base around a clear set of ideas and values. What is killing the party right now are the country clubbers like McCain who despise social and Christian conservatives. Those of McCain’s ilk go out of their way to alienate the driving force behind the party in an attempt to attract the “independent moderate” voter who is more likely to support positions that are 180 degrees out from the GOP base.
Until the GOP rids itself of political traitors like McCain and Snowe, there is no way that you are going to energize the base in sufficient numbers to win big. Like in 2008, the base may reluctantly vote for the lesser of two evils but that doesn’t mean they liked doing so. As a result they didn’t do the grassroots effort necessary for victory. In short, McCain got the votes of the GOP base but he never really had their support with more people voting for Palin than the cranky liberal hater at the top of the ticket.
highhopes on October 16, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Jeff from WI on October 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM
We must be careful of our chosen words here for obvious reasons. Anything and everything “Conservative” is under assault. We need hotair and every other line of communication more now than ever.
People don’t want to talk about it, but violence is coming. Tea Party efforts are going to continue, if fact they are going to grow. Democrats and their unions are going to become very aggressive as they see their agenda slowed down by these peaceful protests. The time clock is ticking, and the Democrats-Media-Unions-sports writers know very well, that they must achieve their goals before the mid terms. We will not bring the violence forward, it will be them. Never the less, the violence is coming.
Keemo on October 16, 2009 at 8:14 AM
You know what else is “fickle”? Denying Clinton’s DOJ far reaching powers in spying on American citizens because we knew government would misuse them and when they did, any misuse would be covered up and not prosecuted…only to enthusiastically give government this power later.
Not to mention decrying abuse by Federal “Law” Enforcement at poorly written warrants…only to enthusiastically support discarding them all together later.
LevStrauss on October 16, 2009 at 8:14 AM
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