Beck: Conservatives voted for McCain hoping he’d die in office so Palin could take over.
Beck: Conservatives voted for McCain hoping he’d die in office so Palin could take over.
Today, radical right-wing blog Red State launched “Project Leper,” an attempt to professionally punish McCain staffers whom Red State’s Erick Erickson perceives to have wronged Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). Erikson told Glenn Beck today, “Palin was the best thing that happened to” the McCain campaign. To which, Beck agreed, saying many conservatives told him they supported McCain in hopes he would die in office:
BECK: I mean, I have to tell you if I heard once, I heard 1,000 times from people, and I never said this, never said this on the air because you just don’t say these things, but I heard a million times from people, “I’m going to vote for John McCain and, you know, I mean, he’s old. Maybe we get Sarah Palin in the first term.” You know what I mean?
ERICKSON: Exactly.
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Keep it up at your peril, morons. She’s the reason he lost. Your idiocy is our salvation.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:28 pmSheer lunacy. Beck and the rest of the serpents have begun to devour their own tails.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:33 pmMillions and millions more voted for Obama for the same reason.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:33 pmthere, see how easy it is!
the truth is so liberating!
we all knew that was the reason… for most, anyway…
November 6th, 2008 at 7:33 pmYes, please Repignicans. Lay Caribou Barbie on the platter in 2012. If it takes the humiliation that will come from the Obama v Caribou Barbie race for the White House to finally make the right wing nutcases fade completely away into obscurity, then so be it. As your “leader” the chimp would say, “bring em on.”
November 6th, 2008 at 7:34 pmAll these people said that to Beck? He clearly needs to quit hanging out in seedy neighborhood bars.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pmThese people will eat their own kind. Isn’t that cannibalism? Certainly it isn’t compassionate conservatism. Makes you wonder why Tom Delay would think having a permanent majority would be a good thing. It sounds more like a plot of a George Romero movie. Hmmmm…I’ve just given myself an idea.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pmVery nice thought there ,Glen , that the republican candidate should win and die so that a woman who has never left the country and is unaware that Africa is a continent ( according to FOX )should be in control of American foreign policy .
November 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pmKeep saying that ,it will go along way toward waking up the Republican party to who they have been in bed with for the last 8 years .
Beck is a tasteless clown.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pmShe thinks Africa is a country? Beck is an idiot. Let’s get that out there right up front.
Palin wasn’t ready to step in as president should something have made McCain unable to serve. Congress would have had to impeach her for incompetence (Yes, I know… High crimes etc)and move Speaker Pelosi to President rather than enduring Palin.
Can anyone out there please fill us in on just who in the Repubs thought Palin was the right choice and brought her to McCain as “The” running mate. What jerk made that decision?
November 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pmbtw – just found at a C&L comment:
http://change.gov/
Office of the
President-Elect
November 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pmIf this is true, Beck has shown how truly stupid, ignorant, & partisan Repubs are. Palin is a bigoted, racist, vengeful, stupid, dumb, out-of-touch, vicious, unhinged, incompetent, illiterate, buffoon. But definitely a Repub icon, given all that. When will Repubs realize this sort of smearing liar is of no interest to us??
November 6th, 2008 at 7:39 pmCan sick people like this actually hold sway in a viable national party ? To wish death on their own candidates ? Scary stuff and all now in the public record !
November 6th, 2008 at 7:39 pmalso – from rachel maddow show:
A to-do list for the new Obama administration
Rachel Maddow collaborates with viewers on presidential priorities
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27562795
listening to her now, reminded about this…
November 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pmshe wants your ideas.
COProgressive Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pmCan anyone out there please fill us in on just who in the Repubs thought Palin was the right choice and brought her to McCain as “The” running mate. What jerk made that decision?
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She was vetted and recommended by Billy Kristol .
Isn’t this the same group of conservative “values” folks that are always complaining about a crass Jerry Springer culture? His whole schtick revolves around crassness.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pmMight as well admit it and get it out of the way.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:43 pmAny liberal or even moderate on the air saying something similar though…suspended or fired.
I’m looking forward to that pure clean diamond those folks dream their movement should be. Mainly because it will be so small the republicans can wrestle with who they are and what they want for years to come.
I do think we need two strong parties with ideas. I just haven’t seen ideas from the republicans for years beyond how they can hold or demonstrate power.
Gee Glenn, why do you save the good stuff until after the election? Is that because you didn’t want John to know until after the election that you were praying for his death? Let me guess, Glenn is a compassionate conservative.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:45 pmYes, that is exactly what the ReichWing braindead bigot hateful brownshirting lockstep jackboot knuckle-dragging neanderturds were hoping for.
Thankfully a majority of Voters saw what a corrupt inept skank she was.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pmfreeman Says:
“She was vetted and recommended by Billy Kristol.”
Well, she does “Look MARRRRVELOUS”
Oh, the other Billy Kristol…
You’re joking, of cause, right?
But really, What’s the inside scoop on how Palin got picked?
November 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pmMen in white coats really need to pay Beck a visit. Sick man.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pmSo conservatives wanted the elected president to die quickly in office either way? You know they’;ll try to knock off Obama ASAP. Probably do it, too.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
November 6th, 2008 at 7:53 pmIn all fairness, Beck does this on every broadcast.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:53 pmWhy do you think they forced him to pick caribou barbie as a running mate. They were doubling down, secretly hoping he would die in office or barring that, retire for healh reasons and then she could run as an incumbent in 2012. I said the same thing right after they forced him to pick her.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:54 pmWow, just a cavalcade of stupidity. As the evangelicals like to say – awesome!
November 6th, 2008 at 7:57 pmFor years, the right has cultivated and promoted more and more idiotic, anti-reality radio screamers and columnists – Beck, Coulter, Ingrahm, Mark Levin, Savage, Goldberg and on and on and on. Getting the conservative message out took precedence over building party infrastructure, to the point where orthodoxy is valued over all else. The problem now being that the party is organized around patently ridiculous ideas. Tax cuts for the rich raises revenues! Our healthcare system is the best in the world! Global warming is a massive conspiracy! And the craziest of all: The U.S. is a majority conservative nation!
The result is you now have persuadable, not very bright people like Joe the Plumber being held up by the party as emblematic of all that is right and good about conservatism. Look! Joe gets it! Taxes are socialism! Evil! Even though the man was national punchline for the rank hypocrisy of being a tax cheat and growing up on welfare. And they think this is good! You actually need to be incoherent to be a conservative now. Listen to what Erickson says at the very end of the clip: “the McCain campaign seemed to think their strategy was to win with moderates and independents – the mushy middle. You don’t win elections…” I assume he finishes by making the point that McCain wasn’t stridently rightwingish enough. Evidently McCarthyite screams of TERRORIST! just don’t qualify among the he men. As long as the GOP is lead by the likes of Beck and Erickson, they’re destined for minority status. Sucks for them.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:57 pm“To which, Beck agreed, saying many conservatives told him they supported McCain in hopes he would die in office:”
And that my friends is treason you can count on.
Just saying . . .
November 6th, 2008 at 7:57 pmCould these people get any more creepy?
November 6th, 2008 at 7:58 pm“You know what I mean?“
Yeah, we know what you mean. You’re nothing but vile scum, but you already knew that.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pmThis would be oh so much more interesting if one of our freakish righty friends would come to Beck’s defense… Is Jonathan111 available? What about you Bam Bam? Come on guys, I was sent home ill from work and need some entertainment…
November 6th, 2008 at 8:03 pmto #13 – DASM …” Palin is a bigoted, racist, vengeful, stupid, dumb, out-of-touch, vicious, unhinged, incompetent, illiterate, buffoon…”
Those were her good qualities, right?
November 6th, 2008 at 8:06 pmThere is a future for Political Reality TV, a cross between The West Wing and COPS.
Palin would be a star!
“The Palin’s: America’s Firts DisFunctional Family” (sp!)
Starring Sarah Palin as “Ma Palin”
…her husband Todd as “The Dude”
…everybody’s favorite baby factory “Bristol”
…her boyfriend and alleged father, “LevI(’ll Kick U’r Ass!)”
…and the rest of the chirren.
This week on “The Palin’s”, Levi ponders getting a GED while in custody of The Alaskan State Troopers!
Levi: Wus-a-matter-darlin?
Bristol: Levi, I’m pregnant!
Levi: Again? Biscuit, I wanna do right by you.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:06 pmIt might be a little harder to run on ‘more experience than Obama’ in 2012. Obviously, Alaska cannot be used to judge the moral character of the people they elect, so whatever approval she generates there will not translate nationally.
So long, the joke’s over. Turns out the country leans sane.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pmdbadass, I think we’ve been too mean to our trolls lately. They don’t seem to have the same joie de vivre these last few weeks.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:08 pmCOProgressive Says:
But really, What’s the inside scoop on how Palin got picked?
I suspect McCain said:”Einie Minnie Minie Moe” while looking at the list.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:08 pmHeh
This is fun. Mann Coulter said this:
“I am now liberated to announce that all I care about is hunting down and punishing every Republican who voted for McCain in the primaries.”
http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Too funny.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:08 pmBECK: I mean, I have to tell you if I heard once, I heard 1,000 times from people, and I never said this, never said this on the air because you just don’t say these things, but I heard a million times from people
Wow, those Magic Undies sure do lead one to exaggerate! That’s just quite a leap in numbers in the same sentence.
Nice to see the Christians hoping a man dies in the next four years, and admitting their agenda on the public airwaves.
PEACE
November 6th, 2008 at 8:14 pmralph,
November 6th, 2008 at 8:16 pmIt is sort of sad. Sort of a bygone era when one could enjoy a nice global climate disruption thread complete with a manical denier chasing it’s own tail…
Beck is the true Repub idiot. Does he really think most Americans wanted bigoted, stupid, uninformed, liar Palin? If they really did, Lord help this country. She is, without doubt, the most useless, ignorant, stupid person to ever try for office. She showed her stupidity over & over & over. Get rid of this dolt & look for someone with intelligence, if you ever want to revive the Repubs.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pmAnd Beck, remember, invert the pistol, put the small end with the tiny hole in your mouth, thumb on the trigger…
November 6th, 2008 at 8:30 pmDidn’t he just say it?
November 6th, 2008 at 8:30 pmBeck – a very sick, sick man.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:31 pmAnd to think, I was going to change my screenname to “DNFP” in honor of the new improved regime.
I still might.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:31 pmhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127130/posts
Freepers want to/are boycotting FOX for Palin betrayal
November 6th, 2008 at 8:34 pmThat’s some harsh shit right there.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:35 pmhow sad Headline News must be that they won’t have Glen Beck around classing the place up!
November 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pmThe problem with a radical ideology is that they never realize that it’s possible to be too radical. And that’s why they eventually self destruct.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:38 pmSo, according to Beck, there are at least a million people (he wouldn’t exaggerate, would he?) who are sick enough to want McCain to die soon, and dumb enough to want someone who is obviously unqualified to run the country to — um — run the country.
I’m sure there are probably some people out there who are that twisted. But it seems to me that Beck’s at the top of the list.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:39 pmIn this case Beck is right.
Imprecatory prayer.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Beck a druggie/drunk is now turning his his friend John McCain. Now Beck had to be on something because Sarah is clueless and it would only take 4 minutes to get her out of office with the 5th Admendment. As for John McCain all the GOP insiders knew he might not make it to Jan. 20th. Lieberman was in the wings to full the Republican ticket. OOPs to bad now Joe is getting kicked out of the Dems.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:45 pmBeck took the wrong pill today. Really pathetic and sick response.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:47 pmCOProgressive Says
November 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
But really, What’s the inside scoop on how Palin got picked?
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We don’t know the whole story. Yet. However, as the leaks from the insiders turn into a flood, we should get a sharper picture.
I had heard that Palin was championed by James Dobson, and McCain went with it to grab the evangelical vote. It’s plausible.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:03 pmTruly..pathetic.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pma murderous little
dwarf like him ought
to fit in very neatly at fox.
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will his viewers hope that
o’reilly will die so he can take over?
^
November 6th, 2008 at 9:24 pmAnd just when you think they can’t stoop any lower … SURPRISE.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:32 pmWhy the nazi Beck gets space, I will never understand. He is another non-entity moron.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:44 pmThis only confirms my suspicions. AND it is the very reason so many thinking independents and republicans didn’t vote for McCain!
November 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pmThey really wanted McDepends to win so he could die in office and then the incredibly stupid snowbilly would be a pretty puppet in the Rovian/Cheney fists. A new world order, illuminati shitcan, end of the world and rapture thing, but the most likely scenario.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:27 pmHow does the Earth not open under his feet? How is it he manages to feed and clothe himself? Such a glaring lack of mental capacity, much less reasoning ability argues that he should have killed himself in some Spectacularly idiotic fashion Years Ago! Regrettably he’s living proof that man can survive his own stupidity.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:32 pmImpeach,while There’s Still Time!
I think all these “people he heard from” (voices in his head?) were hoping that Palin would get to the nuclear codes as soon as possible so she could push the big red button that makes Jesus come down in all his glory, hallelujah!
November 6th, 2008 at 10:47 pmGo Sarah! Go Sarah!
You Betcha!
Bring your wacky Rev Muthee and Todd and Brad with ya too doncha know!
(2012 is in the bag)
November 6th, 2008 at 10:49 pmSay it ain’t so Glenn, betting on a dead horse. Proof that the GOP is really dead.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:54 pmIt begs the question: How far were they willing to go if Flippy didn’t drop dead? And how far will they go to thwart President Obama?
November 6th, 2008 at 11:00 pmpete Says:
And how far will they go to thwart President Obama?
I wouldn’t go in any open-car motorcades if I were Barack.
November 6th, 2008 at 11:44 pm.
So let me get this straight,
They wished McCain would die in office because…
… Country fist?
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November 7th, 2008 at 12:50 am“…and I never said this, never said this on the air because you just don’t say these things…”
Well Glenn you just did say that on air. You sir are an arse. Apparently you and Mr. Erickson have a common male affliction where the wrong head takes over and starts thinking for you.
Your conversation sounds like the two of you love each other. Fawning over each others beliefs. Maybe the two of you could have voted against discrimination and your two happy but misguided heads could have gotten together in a happy same-sex marriage.
I cannot believe there are enough Americans wanting to listen to this kind of crap for him to stay on the air. But then again Fox proves me wrong!
November 7th, 2008 at 6:00 amThis is nothing short of hilarious. The republicans are in total disarray. Hoping that McCain would die in office, just so Bible Spice could take over? I’m going to continue to enjoy watching the continued meltdown of the GOP after this humiliating (and much deserved) defeat.
Keep eating your own, GOP. It’s quite funny to watch. If you’re that much in love with Palin, then follow her back to Alaska and join her penacostal church, where you can all gather together, babble in tongues like idiots, and wait for the rapture. The rest of us will move forward in the 21st Century.
November 7th, 2008 at 8:55 amAnd here we are hoping it’s Beck that does the dying
November 7th, 2008 at 9:58 amYikes. Just …yikes.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:10 amShouldn’t this be the end of Beck’s career?
November 7th, 2008 at 12:14 pmclassy.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pmWow. Until now, it had never even crossed my mind Beck could be a bigger peice of shit than he already was.
http://www.bustergetmypills.com
November 7th, 2008 at 6:46 pm