The talk hosts are excited about Chris Christie as a possible GOP presidential runner. But Glenn Beck has other worrries
Rush Limbaugh
Conservatives are ecstatic at the prospect that Governor Chris Christie might enter the presidential race, despite the�New Jersey�politician's repeated assertions that he has no intention of doing so. While he is not everyone's candidate of choice ? Bill O'Reilly thinks he shouldn't run because he hasn't been in his current job for long enough ? Rush Limbaugh is quick to explain that the enthusiasm for Christie's phantom candidacy has nothing to do with unhappiness with the Republican field but just that they need to find someone, anyone, who can defeat President Obama (listen to clip).
This whole notion that the field is weak, in other words, is not something that the voting public thinks. The reaction that some people are having to Christie is, "Oh, God, please get in," and then that does indicate an unhappiness with everybody else that's in the field. It boils down, I think, to people wanting somebody they think can win, and it boils down to people wanting somebody that talks tough, and talks straight, from the gut.
Up until the last two primary debates, many conservatives thought they had their straight-talking, straight-shooting candidate: Rick Perry. But since Perry's disappointing debate performance, where he�failed to capitalise on his positives (the record number of executions and the record number of low-wage jobs without benefits he gave Texas), and instead, allowed his negatives (a willingness to afford the children of undocumented immigrants an education and to vaccinate girls against cervical cancer) to get the better of him, it is understandable that many Republicans would be literally begging Christie to step in and fill the void. It remains to be seen if Christie can pass the conservative litmus test, however ? already, Limbaugh fears there might be too much of the John McCain in him. On the other hand, if he does, it may well work against him with the Republican establishment.
The columnists, the magazine directors, editors, publishers, whatever, they are reaching and searching for a counter to the conservatives. They don't want Herman Cain getting the nomination; they don't want Perry getting the nomination; they don't want Bachmann getting the nomination. The Republican establishment does not want a conservative getting the nomination. If Chris Christie can come along, catch fire, see to it that Palin, Bachmann ? Palin not in, she might get in, who knows, doubt it, but still too soon to say ? if they can co-opt any conservative getting the nomination, they will do it.
Limbaugh is not ready to write Christie off just yet, though, despite the chance that he might occasionally cooperate with Democrats if elected, because even he concedes that finding a candidate capable of defeating Obama must be the top priority.
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity would also like Christie to enter the race, but he is still optimistic about the current line-up, and believes a strong contender may yet emerge from the so called "second tier" (watch clip). He interviewed one of these second-tier candidates, Rick Santorum, earlier this week. He did not mention Santorum's controversial position that sexual activity has no place in the military, nor the booing of the gay soldier which he did not hear, and rather focused on his "fiery exchange" with Rick Perry, who called him "heartless" for objecting to the education of children of undocumented immigrants.
Senator, I had Governor Perry on my radio show on Friday and I asked him about your exchange. And his answer to me was, "Well, wait a minute. You're saying that it's OK for the children of illegal immigrants to go, and the only area of difference is on the subsidy side. In other words, the in-state tuition break that they get. So, for example, the children of illegals: it's OK with you to go to public schools, universities?"
Santorum clarified his position on the issue, which is that he has no objection to children from other countries going to American schools and universities, and pointed out that this is actually common practice, but he just doesn't want them getting the in-state tuition break. As long as the children are charged the higher rate that foreigners and out-of-state pupils typically pay, he has no problem with them going to school. Hannity still didn't like the idea of children whose parents entered the country illegally being given access to education.
All right. But if they're here illegally. In other words, I think there's two issues here. And I think you made your point on whether or not they get in-state tuition breaks. There's a clear difference between you (and Perry). What I'm trying to ascertain here: is there a difference if children or people are in this country illegally ? should they be allowed to go to American schools even though they're in the country illegally?
Santorum confirmed that he would still allow the children to go to school, as long as they paid the higher tuition rate and added that there was no reason for Governor Perry to go around calling anyone heartless who adopts such a reasonable position.
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is far too concerned with what is going down in 2011 to worry about what 2012 may bring, namely that the "riots in the streets" have finally spread from places like Egypt and Greece to American soil in the form of the Occupy Wall Street protests (view clip).
Oddly enough, even though Beck shares some of the protesters' frustrations with unregulated capitalism ? he has spoken at length about how badly the banks have behaved and how unfair it is that taxpayers should have to pay for their "deliberate" mistakes ? he does not support the protests. This is because he thinks the protesters (aka the "hippies") are actually themselves responsible for causing the behavior that led to the financial crisis which they are now decrying.�
Remember all those banks and why they made loans to people they shouldn't have made loans to? Why did they make those loans? Why did they do that? They made those loans because they were afraid. Because the left came out and said, "You are a racist!" And then, the government ? like Barney Frank ? came and said, "You know what, I happen to agree with them and we're not going to, we can't let you be racist like this; you better write those loans that people aren't qualified for." So they were afraid and they did nothing.�The banks are culpable, but no less than those who told them to write the loans in the first place!
So Beck's theory is that as the hippies are part of "the left" and people on the left allegedly gave the banks a hard time back in the day for not giving loans to minorities, they (the left) are responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis. The left are the hippies and the labor unions, and they are in league with the politicians (that is, President Obama), who are being manipulated by the billionaire investor George Soros, who wants to bring about an end to capitalism. Beck has many grievances against Soros, but his most recent one is his fear that he's not paying high-enough taxes.
Does Obama ? do you think Obama has checked? 'Cos I guarantee you, that George Soros is paying a lower rate than Warren Buffet's secretary. I'm just saying ? and it wouldn't match Obama's rhetoric. The politician's rhetoric doesn't match the rhetoric of the unions, and the unions don't match the hippies and the hippies don't match Soros and Soros, Wall Street, does it? Or does it?
One more thing here on Soros. How does a guy who says things would be unimaginable without bailouts get in bed with a guy [Obama] who won't speak out about the bank protest. If he [Obama] is so concerned about this guy [Soros], so concerned about it, why won't this guy [Obama] who's in bed with this guy [Soros], both saying they're concerned about these guys [Wall Street] speak out against these guys [the hippies] or these guys [the unions] who are really only hurting you.
The "you" Beck is referring to are the subscribers to his program, who he wants to ensure are not being manipulated by liars in the media to act against their own interests.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/30/chris-christie-fox-news
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