Since I don’t watch all that cable “news” nonsense, the only “Beck” I’m familiar with is the one who sings the above song. So I include it, for what it’s worth.
I was really taken aback when I saw what this other Beck had to say:
After winning the Republican primary in his home state of Ohio Tuesday night, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich announced that he plans to stay the course. Glenn Beck had a few choice words for him.
“Kasich, I mean, excuse my language, but, you son of a bitch, the republic is at stake,” Beck said Wednesday on The Glenn Beck Radio Program. “This is not like a normal race. The republic is at stake.”
Continuing his criticism of Kasich, Beck, a top surrogate for Republican candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, argued that the Ohio governor is “delusional” if he thinks he can win….
Well, uh, yeah… the republic is at stake, which is why it’s wonderful that Kasich won decisively in Ohio (a state Republicans have to win to win the White House), so that he can continue all the way to the convention.
Even if you’re, um, delusional enough to be for Cruz, you should be able to understand that, since Kasich pulls a different sort of voter from what Cruz does, there’s a greater chance of stopping Trump from getting 1,237 delegates before the convention if both Cruz and Kasich stay in.
And that has to happen before either Cruz or Kasich has a chance to emerge triumphant from a contested convention. With the states remaining, it’s unlikely that Cruz could get to 1,237 himself, so the convention is all he has to hope for.
Otherwise, he’s a loser, baby…
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“the republic is at stake, which is why it’s wonderful that Kasich won decisively in Ohio ”
I’ll give you credit. You stay on message regardless of all the other information that weakens that message.
Decisive = less than half the voters in his home state
Wonderful = he lost by 40% in FL to Trump, 20% in Illinois, 21% in Missouri, and 27% in North Carolina.
Other than his 9 point win over Trump in his own state, he lost by double digits in all four states to Cruz.
The “republic is at stake” hyperbole is going to grow old. We’ve heard the same rhetoric about any number of politicians in the past. It’s not like Trump is stealing the election. People are voting for him. They are doing it for a reason — a reason you just can’t bring yourself to accept: that there is a significant percentage of the public that is completely fed up with politicians. Trump and Sanders didn’t create the mindset, they are just taking advantage of it. I remember the days when pundits tried to claim the Tea Party was just some fringe group… then they started winning elections. Not so fringe-y any more, eh?
We’ve likely hit a tipping point. It will be interesting to see how it plays out but there’s no sense playing Chicken Little and claiming the sky is falling. Obama wasn’t half the guy his acolytes made him out to be once he got in office. I’m guessing Trump would be the same – just pushing the pendulum back to the other side.
“The ‘republic is at stake’ hyperbole is going to grow old. We’ve heard the same rhetoric about any number of politicians in the past.”
Really, Doug? Where did you hear that in the past? Certainly not from me. Sure, there are idiots out there who make a living from ill-considered rhetoric, but you’ve never heard anything like that from me.
We are facing a crisis in this country, unlike anything I have ever seen. We are in serious, unprecedented trouble.
In my entire life, much less my career following politics, I have never, ever seen anything remotely as bad as this. Your refusal to see it is perverse. Surely you care more about your country than to take grim satisfaction as it goes down the toilet…
I’d say Trump has a Devil’s Haircut
https://youtu.be/aa3rBVb3v4g
I’ve been kinda hoping Trump would get caught on an open microphone kinda like the Andy Griffith character Lonesome Rhodes in the Kazan movie “A face in the Crowd.” The parallels kind of stand out to me, and the great manipulator probably feels the same contempt in private that Rhodes did. Unfortunately, I’ve come to suspect Trump could lie, deny, and bluster away the issues to the satisfaction of his supporters. What the rest of the world knows and thinks doesn’t matter.
Trump is the inverse of Lonesome Rhodes. Not a single person who has voted for him would doubt that Trump wouldn’t call them a slack jawed, mouth breathing loser to their face. Some point to Trump as the embodiment of Hitler or Mussolini. He is really the embodiment of our national self-loathing. We want to get played by a cheap real estate mogul. That confirms our identity.
Oh, yeah. As I said on social media recently, Lonesome Rhodes was a true charmer next to Trump.
Since Hillary pretty much has the Dem nomination sewed up perhaps it’s time for Democrats to cross party lines and vote for Trump in the remaining primaries. He would be much easier to beat than anyone else but probably not worse than any of the other Neanderthals running in the PNW (party of Nixon and W). This SCOTUS fight underscores the stakes in this election.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”–Pogo.