Republican Trial Balloons For 2012
Nov 24th, 2009 | 23 responses
After scanning the news wires this morning, I was forced to take a second look at the calendar. Yep. Two days before Thanksgiving 2009. Then why are there stories floating around suggesting Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs run for president in 2012? President of what? POTUS? Yep.
Oh. My. God. Seriously, folks, Mrs. Palin is a contender despite her political warts.
Beck has shown no interest despite a website petition asking for signatures.
Dobbs says he’s exploring the possibility which immediately conveys images of Rush Limbaugh as meek and timid.
Of the three, Beck scares me the most. Not that he would be drafted to run for president by the Republicans or a third-party conservative group. But his announced plans to hold conventions to educate people about self-reliance, the economy and community organizing as a step toward building an effective electoral force.
That’s right. Glenn Beck, the community organizer.
“America, we cannot wait for a leader anymore,” Beck told his radio and TV audiences Monday. “The people must lead, and the leader will follow.” Professor Beck at the lectern poses a frightening scenario of spewing hate, fear, untruths and bigotry with an uncanny knack of adding two and two equaling five.
Even those who disagree with his causes, to not take this demagogue seriously backed by the Fox News Corp. and top ratings on the cable news channels is a dangerous path. Think of those 9/12 crowds he attracted to Washington whether they numbered 4,000, 40,000 or 400,000. Or the tea baggers? Doesn’t matter. The guy’s a real life pied piper.
Reports The Los Angeles Times:
Beck’s announcement is the latest in a series of attempts by well-known, right-leaning figures to fill a leadership void in the Republican Party — which has no clear standard-bearer and has seen a schism open between its moderates and conservatives. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is drawing large crowds on a national book tour. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham is asking GOP candidates to sign a 10-point pledge on her website.
Should Beck make progress in his efforts, it could widen the split within the party. He has cast himself as an outsider, an enemy of the “bipartisan corruption” in Washington. Many of his viewers and listeners favor the tea-party movement that has developed in reaction to fears that Obama is enlarging government’s reach into the economy. Many also view the GOP establishment with suspicion.
Here’s the Beck For President petition:
To: Glenn Beck
As a concerned American citizen, I am in search of an American presidential candidate for 2012 that will represent truth, our founding fathers’ principles, and a strong sense of ethical and moral standards.
If you do not know Glenn Beck, I encourage you to get to know him. Please watch his show on Fox News. I encourage you to research his background and listen to his concern for our country and its citizens. Above all, please recognize that he is a man with a high regard for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in all American citizens.
He is truly an American patriot and a caring, compassionate individual. The amount of honesty and empathy he has shown would make him an excellent presidential candidate for 2012. Right now, honesty and empathy are virtues completely lacking in Washington D.C. It is time to make a change!
If you are in support of the nomination of Glenn Beck for president in 2012, please sign below and this petition will be sent directly to him.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Former CNN anchor Dobbs is not at all shy about his presidential ambitions. Asked by former Sen. Fred Thompson on his radio show whether he was considering the presidency, Dobbs was quick to respond “Yes, is the answer.”
Was it crazy talk, Dobbs was asked on another radio show. “What’s so crazy about that?” Dobbs fired back.
Unlike Beck, Dobbs can be introspective. “I don’t think I’ve got the nature for it…But we’ve got to do something in this country. And I think that being in the public arena means you’ve got to be part of the solution.”
In recent years, Dobbs has been an outspoken critic of undocumented workers burdening our labor force, health, welfare and justice systems. During those years Dobbs insisted he was a registered independent. An independent hasn’t been elected POTUS since the early 1800s, my friend John Adams once told me.
Palin, meanwhile, got encouragement for president today by Matthew Dowd, President Bush’s 2004 campaign strategist. On condition she follow five suggestions to refine her image, Dowd said the political climate leading into 2012 are in her favor.
Like it or not, if Sarah Palin decides to seek our nation’s highest office, she has a shot. The probability of her success depends on her ability, and that of President Obama, to admit and learn from their mistakes.
I reject Beck and Dobbs on grounds of lack of temperament and totally clueless on how to govern. President Beck? President Dobbs? It even sounds grotesque.
President Palin? If you thought Barack Obama was glitter over substance, you are surely being hoodwinked by this lady. Her few policy statements are broad bromides of conservative talking points for less spending, lower taxes and a robust national defense. That sounds nice on the campaign trail, but the devil is in the details of governing, a lesson Barack Obama is still trying to grasp.
It would come as no surprise at this writing if Palin won the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Can you imagine the options Democratic strategists would have. First question out of the shute:
“Mrs. Palin. If you are elected, do you plan to serve an entire term?”
23 Responses to “Republican Trial Balloons For 2012”
*shrug*
Bob Hope used to run for President every year too.
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The republicans offer nothing but a bunch of whacked-out fruitcakes.
Obama is doing just fine. If it weren't for the constant hate-talk of the right-wing media, his approval rating would be 90%. He had one heck of a mess to clean up, despite the lies the republicans fabricate to try & cover up the disastorous Bush Jr. presidency…….
Everyone continuing to exhibit diseased behavior toward Palin (and make her wealthier and more famous) makes themselves look worse than ever.
As for the GOP, it's far too soon to jockey for 2012, even though they're doing it. Who's doing it, specifically? Last year's candidates — there's nothing new yet from the party desperately in need of newness. (As I've said before, Jeb Bush is poised to be a 2000-revisited brand-name family-dynasty default desperation candidate in 2012. He's viable for 2016, too, but I'm assuming the GOP will, before then, have finally reinvented or at least revised itself.)
“If it weren't for the constant hate-talk of the right-wing media, his approval rating would be 90%.”
Where are those media censors when you need them?
Hatred (thinly packaged as revulsion) for typical conservative or GOP straw voodoo dolls goes nowhere.
And you poor, demented souls have forgotten someone you hated viciously, as recently as earlier this month: Carrie Prejean (a fabulous choice you deserve to see as your next Vice President under Palin, or next Secretary of State — or new Secretary of Culture [chuckle]).
Where is my “Cable a la carte” so I don't have to subsidize Fox News or CNN for that matter?
Try the classic big satellite dish and a good antenna. Cheaper programming, more choices, better service (no rain outages). You'll need to find out if it's compatible with your current reality filter, however.
Better yet, how about we pass a law that requires Cable companies to sell “a la carte”, that way we'll then be able to see the “Free Market” at work in all it's glory…
A simple access fee, the ability to buy and drop channels as people see fit, we'll see how long it takes for Fox, CNN and MSNBC to lose their audiences…
Or better yet, Drop Cable and use Netflix and Pirate bay to get all the programming you could ever want, without the commercials…
Which is the way I would go if I didn't have young kids.
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As usual you're wanting a government fix to the symptom of a government created problem (albeit, local government — they can be just as bad, sometimes). You don't have choices because the cities created protected monopolies. Fix that problem, and you'll have more choices.
Or even better – stop watching TV altogether. Save some money and brain cells…
DQ and PE – Just don't watch those channels you don't like, it's called choice. Some entrepreneur should just make a cable box that allows to lock or block channels…
Most digital cable ready TV's can deselect any channel…
Cable, like Electricity, Telephone (Land Line), Water is a natural monopoly, and like all natural monopolies it should be regulated…
When the Cable company sticks FOX on the basic tier, they are forcing me to subsidize FOX, I would rather get a 50 cents rebate than get FOX.
I would like to see a presidential debate between Romney, Guiliani, Huckabe, and Palin.
Ask a question, any question and R, G and H will have at least semi-coherent answers. Palin will complain that the “gotcha liberal media” are being unfair to her.
“Cable, like Electricity, Telephone (Land Line), Water is a natural monopoly…”
Except that it isn't. Cable and fiber lines are a lot cheaper to run and maintain than water lines and electric lines. Another major factor that people have noted since the cable monopolies started: it's not a vital service. If there's a delay getting your lines because the territory isn't a protected monopoly, you have other options, such as digital dishes, available, and your health isn't threatened by a lack of Ophra. Competition would be very possible with no real downside, except for politicians, of course.
Really? And whose land are these cable going to run on? and where are they going to get the right of way?
I have competition where I live, Optimum, Fios, Dish And DirectTV, None of them offer “Cable a la Carte”. Don't you think that there are sports junkie out there who want ESPN, YES and the NFL network and nothing else, why should they pay for CNN, FOX, SYFY, etc?
The right-wing media is responsible for President Obama's decline? No….the presidential ship is sinking all by itself; not only did it never have a rudder, it has no hull.
Hmmm…now who supported that and introduced a bill for it?….John McCain.
Yeah, I understand that. I have to subsidize the MSM myself. The only medium that let me do that was my old big satellite dish – I miss that thing.
I didn't reply to this earlier:
Obviously, dedicated pipes and lines are much cheaper delivery. There are other competing systems to all of these: water wells, septic tanks, satellite TV, and solar energy. Cities get people on city water and sewage not by offering a better deal, but by charging people that don't use their systems.
Many ISPs and large companies ran their own fiber for their networks. City sewers, railroad, roads, and electric companies will rent space to get these lines through, just like the monopolized cable companies do. There would be some redundancy, but it wouldn't be unique. Plus, redundancy is good, and redundancy is even better!