Palin-Beck 2012?
Sarah Palin has suggested Fox News firebrand Glenn Beck could be someone she'd consider as a running mate if she makes a bid for the White House in two years.
"I can envision a couple of different combinations, if ever I were to be in a position to really even seriously consider running for anything in the future, and I'm not there yet," Palin told the conservative news agency Newsmax as she promoted her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life."
"But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He's a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way. And he's so bold - I have to respect that. He calls it like he sees it, and he's very, very, very effective."
Palin and Beck have long been admirers of one another, with the former Alaska governor often praising the Fox News host on her Facebook page. A Palin-Beck ticket would be a dream come true for the legion of so-called tea party protesters vehemently opposed to Barack Obama's presidency.
The pair shares a tendency to strike fear into the hearts of their supporters. Palin, for her part, has alleged Obama is aiming to do away with the elderly and infirm with the so-called death panels in his health-care reform overhaul, while Beck has accused the president of being a racist, a socialist and has also drawn parallels between his policies and those of Adolf Hitler.
The Anti-Defamation League has cited Beck, who also has a syndicated radio show, as the "most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke the fires of anti-government anger."
Needless to say, it's a potential ticket that has some moderate Republicans squeamish.
"It's not going to happen; it's not anybody's dream," Republican strategist Charles Black, who worked on John McCain's presidential campaign last year, said Wednesday when reached at his D.C. office.
"It's way too early to be focused on it. We don't even know who's going to run."
Palin has been playing coy about her presidential aspirations as she promotes "Going Rogue" this week, saying that running for president in 2012 is not on her "radar screen right now" while suggesting at the same time it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
But with the media blitz has come fresh criticism from those who helped run McCain's campaign. This time, however, they aren't hiding beyond the cloak of anonymity - they're openly accusing Palin of lying both in her memoir and in her high-profile interviews this week.
Steve Schmidt, McCain's campaign manager, has already dismissed Palin's portrayal of him in "Going Rogue" as "fanciful and total fiction."
And now Nicolle Wallace, another McCain strategist, is bitterly disputing Palin's assertion that she pressured the self-styled hockey mom into her infamous interview with CBS's Katie Couric last fall by telling her the news anchor had low self-esteem.
"The whole notion there was a conversation where I tried to cajole her into a conversation with Katie is fiction," Wallace told MSNBC. "I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description."
She also disputed Palin's insistence that Wallace assured her the interview would be a lightweight one that would simply amount to a conversation between two working mothers and the challenges they faced. Palin's failure to answer Couric's question on what she read every day to her meandering answers on foreign policy caused irreparable damage to the McCain campaign.
In fact, Wallace said, the Couric interview was set up on the day of the United Nations General Assembly in an effort to show Palin had foreign policy savvy.
"It was never made as two working gals," Wallace said. "It's either rationalization or justification or fiction."
McCain himself has denied Palin's allegation in "Going Rogue" that his campaign stuck her with a $50,000 legal bill to pay for the cost of vetting her as a potential vice-presidential candidate.
In fact, the Arizona senator said, the bill was for legal costs pertaining to allegations that Palin made improper use of her influence as Alaska's governor to press for the dismissal of a state trooper named Mike Wooten. Wooten was embroiled in a custody dispute with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann.
"That was over Troopergate," McCain said earlier this week.
The senator is apparently being hotly pursued by various publishing houses to write a tell-all on Palin, with one publisher reportedly offering him an $8 million advance to dish the dirt.
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AP "I can envision a couple of different combinations, if ever I were to be in a position to really even seriously consider running for anything in the future, and I'm not there yet," Palin told the conservative news agency Newsmax as she promoted her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life."
"But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He's a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way. And he's so bold - I have to respect that. He calls it like he sees it, and he's very, very, very effective."
Palin and Beck have long been admirers of one another, with the former Alaska governor often praising the Fox News host on her Facebook page. A Palin-Beck ticket would be a dream come true for the legion of so-called tea party protesters vehemently opposed to Barack Obama's presidency.
The pair shares a tendency to strike fear into the hearts of their supporters. Palin, for her part, has alleged Obama is aiming to do away with the elderly and infirm with the so-called death panels in his health-care reform overhaul, while Beck has accused the president of being a racist, a socialist and has also drawn parallels between his policies and those of Adolf Hitler.
The Anti-Defamation League has cited Beck, who also has a syndicated radio show, as the "most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke the fires of anti-government anger."
Needless to say, it's a potential ticket that has some moderate Republicans squeamish.
"It's not going to happen; it's not anybody's dream," Republican strategist Charles Black, who worked on John McCain's presidential campaign last year, said Wednesday when reached at his D.C. office.
"It's way too early to be focused on it. We don't even know who's going to run."
Palin has been playing coy about her presidential aspirations as she promotes "Going Rogue" this week, saying that running for president in 2012 is not on her "radar screen right now" while suggesting at the same time it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
But with the media blitz has come fresh criticism from those who helped run McCain's campaign. This time, however, they aren't hiding beyond the cloak of anonymity - they're openly accusing Palin of lying both in her memoir and in her high-profile interviews this week.
Steve Schmidt, McCain's campaign manager, has already dismissed Palin's portrayal of him in "Going Rogue" as "fanciful and total fiction."
And now Nicolle Wallace, another McCain strategist, is bitterly disputing Palin's assertion that she pressured the self-styled hockey mom into her infamous interview with CBS's Katie Couric last fall by telling her the news anchor had low self-esteem.
"The whole notion there was a conversation where I tried to cajole her into a conversation with Katie is fiction," Wallace told MSNBC. "I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description."
She also disputed Palin's insistence that Wallace assured her the interview would be a lightweight one that would simply amount to a conversation between two working mothers and the challenges they faced. Palin's failure to answer Couric's question on what she read every day to her meandering answers on foreign policy caused irreparable damage to the McCain campaign.
In fact, Wallace said, the Couric interview was set up on the day of the United Nations General Assembly in an effort to show Palin had foreign policy savvy.
"It was never made as two working gals," Wallace said. "It's either rationalization or justification or fiction."
McCain himself has denied Palin's allegation in "Going Rogue" that his campaign stuck her with a $50,000 legal bill to pay for the cost of vetting her as a potential vice-presidential candidate.
In fact, the Arizona senator said, the bill was for legal costs pertaining to allegations that Palin made improper use of her influence as Alaska's governor to press for the dismissal of a state trooper named Mike Wooten. Wooten was embroiled in a custody dispute with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann.
"That was over Troopergate," McCain said earlier this week.
The senator is apparently being hotly pursued by various publishing houses to write a tell-all on Palin, with one publisher reportedly offering him an $8 million advance to dish the dirt.
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The AIA (American Idiot Alliance) aka the GOP has just
officially endorsed this dream ticket.
Palin - Queen
Beck - King
Rush Limpballs - Court Jester
I would love to see that ticket and watch the Democratic Vote Landslide WIN, It would be the Biggest Win in HISTORY for Either Party.
Here is an IDEA How about:
Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck > Republican Ticket.
&
Kathy Griffin and Keith Olbermann > Democrat Ticket.
Kathy Griffin and Keith Olbermann would win by a Landslide.
Kathy Griffin is so much smarter then Caribou Barbie & Keith Olbermann wins every time compaired to Glenn Beck.
Take out the Kitchen and Put in a Full Service Bar > Glenn Beck might be moving in.
Must see TV!
Empire, I have no confidence in the GOP. None. It is populated mostly by the likes of Snowe, Collins, McCain, etc. They ar no different than Dems!
No, the last defense at the gate will be the States. In my state (Virginia), we are beginning the process of that defense. Twenty Eight other states have already begun that process also. We are beginning to push back agains the illegal and unConstitutional actions of our Federal government.
Please remember, the Federal government was created by and works for the states. The powers given to the Federal government BELONG to the States. They gave those powers, listed (enumerated) in the Constitution to do on their behalf. And they certainly can take those back!"
Based upon this comment then you would agree that the state of California has the right to make marijuana legal in their state?
Any state would have the right to legalize gay mariage?
Palin and Beck would be awesome although not realistic.
B. "Karl Marx" Obama has already lost the 2012 Election. Can you say a Jimmy Carter like beatdown in 2012. 49-1 state shalacking! It's 1977 all over again. In fact, B. Hussein is further left and far worse that Jimbo Carter!
Only one problem. Who is the GOP candidate that can accomplish this?
A bullmoose Assemblies of God Pentacostal that doesn't know the difference between the bailout and the stimulus that wants to allow states to seceed from the Union...
An alcoholic Mormon convert that wants to return to the Gold Standard...
Those would be great debates I tell you...
From Politics Daily:
"Glenn Beck says would have much preferred Hillary Clinton to be president instead of Barack Obama, and might have even voted for her against John McCain."
Beck called McCain is "a weird progressive, like Theodore Roosevelt" and said definitively, "I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama."
My my- and this is the guy that Sarah Palin says "Glenn Beck I have great respect for."
You have to wonder why Sarah put John McCain on her ticket anyways- you betcha wink wink-
And isn't it very disrepectful the way she displays the American flag in that Runner's World soft-core porno shot? All crumpled up- that's what she'd really like to do to America- go back to the civil war and fight for the confederacy.
B. "Karl Marx" Obama has already lost the 2012 Election. Can you say a Jimmy Carter like beatdown in 2012. 49-1 state shalacking! It's 1977 all over again. In fact, B. Hussein is further left and far worse that Jimbo Carter!
so you say he's lost the election ... without a candidate on the republican side defined yet?
how long have you been exposed to politics ... or have you hit your head on something recently?