Challenge: President Glenn Beck

Teleology

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Libertarian Nationalist flag...I'm thinking the Libertarian Flag except Lady Liberty is holding a sword pointed down not a torch pointed up, and it's red/white/and blue, not just white and blue.
 
Huh... Am I the only one who has doesn't think Glenn Beck is crazy or a radical? I actually watch his show daily:). Did any of you see him when he was on HLN(CNN)? Getting him to be president is ASB, but not because he's "crazy" or "radical". He has said several times that he would not run because he is afraid of himself being corrupted. Besides, why would he want to be president? He has alot more power being a commentator then he would as a politician.:cool:

Besides, you would probably have to make him not mormon, or you might get the Romney effect. (Not that I have a problem with Mormons, my town is full of them)
 
I don't think it would be that big of a challenge if the man would just lay off the wingnut and alarmist stuff. If he went mainstream, and the Democratic Party picked a far-left moonbat, then most of the non-Party (or at least non The Party and the other The Party) would cast their lot with him. I think he's a bit of windbag, personally, but he was born in Everett, and that makes him a fellow Washingtonian (even if he doesn't live here-- Crickey! He rails against Liberals, and now lives in New England), and that's a bit better than a Bay Stater, Texan or New Yorker... we've had enough Texans for one century. No more Kennedys, Bushes or Clin-tawns.

And no, I wouldn't vote for Beck even if he did mellow out and took a more objective and logical look at the world.
 
Glenn isnt crazy, to me he just seems a bit too rushed. If he just slowed down, stopped yelling, and occasionally took a few deep breaths:while on his show and explained things without looking like a clown (sometimes he does) more people would take him seriously.
 
You guys do realize that the Glenn Beck on tv is a character he plays right ? He's an old school radio man and he's playing different characters to appeal to different demographics. He was tame on HLN , but when he went to Fox he decided to appeal to the "angry white man" demographic.
 
All of these crazy world leader threads as of late, as well as the mentions of both 4chan and For All Time in this thread, reminded me of a sort of update/sequel I wanted to do for the latter that brought it through the present day (and a little into the near future): the USA has terrible presidents coming into power from John Edwards to Sarah Palin and the nation eventually winds up with Christian Weston Chandler as president, complete with a host of other e-famous people in his cabinet. (Well, actually only a few, but enough.) That alone isn't even the worst thing I planned to have happen to the world at that point in time.

Glenn Beck as president in there is incredibly tempting, or at least in a powerful position. As someone else stated, however, he is primarily an entertainer more than anything (more obvious at first than what Rush Limbaugh ever was, in my eyes), so a more... (wannabe) serious pundit like Malkin may be better.

Anyway, back on topic. Glenn Beck. President? If he was willing to run, I can see him being a serious challenge but just not having enough support to get in. Maybe as a GOP vice president?
 
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Glenn Beck has stated several times that he his against partisan, two-party politics. If he ran, he would almost certainly be an Independent/third party candidate. If it was Obama v. Palin, or Obama v. Jeb Bush, Beck could run as an independent and have a decent shot.

IF he decides to run for president. I'm 99% sure that he won't.
 
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Xen

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The Second Coming happens and everybody but the TEA Party is raptured! Glenn Beck runs on the Third Coming Party platform against Alan Keyes on the Why Did I Get Left Behind Party platform. Keyes the only black person left loses because of racial discrimination which is now predominant and directed only at him.

Oh Sarah Palin is selected as Beck's running mate.
 
This thread made me go check to make sure I still had my German passport handy. Just the idea makes me happy to be a dual citizen. :D

As for how... Beck manages to convert the heads of the CIA to his cause. They begin a fiendish plot to put mind control drugs into the tap water of the USA. Realizing that nobody actually drinks tapwater anymore, they revise their plans and put the drugs into soda and bottled water.

Beck wins in a landslide with 84% of the popular vote.
 

Hendryk

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Glenn isnt crazy, to me he just seems a bit too rushed. If he just slowed down, stopped yelling, and occasionally took a few deep breaths:while on his show and explained things without looking like a clown (sometimes he does) more people would take him seriously.
Far-right drivel is far-right drivel even when it's said without crazy histrionics.
 
Virus wipes out mankind, leaving Beck alone.
He holds an election, and after a controversy-filled recount proclaims himself victor.
Blindness and lack of audience bring him to resign two years later.
 
Unlikely

I think this is unlikely to happen. People either like or do not like Glen Beck. If he got in to a few primarys he would a simmaler percent of the vote in each. There would be little room for his canadacy to grow.
 
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