It’d be great if we could run this guy on the GOP ticket.
Why not? He certainly seems to like America better than the guy in the White House now. And depending on who you talk to he might be just as ineligible to serve.
This is a fabulous speech. Well-written, well-delivered, with passion and verve. And with an infectious message. We need a Republican candidate who can give a speech this good.
Hannan will be the British prime minister one day, and perhaps quite soon.
This post was written by MacAoidh on Monday, February 13, 2012, 23:55. MacAoidh has written 8079 posts on this blog.
“What happened here was the accumulated karmic backlash of forty years’ worth of Establishment Democrats telling the Activist Left that they were the vanguard of, and spokesmen for, a broad American populist movement. For the longest time, such lies were simply an accepted part of the public policy debate; mostly because the country had no yardstick by which to judge the Left’s turnout and activities.
“But then came the Tea Parties — which showed people what a real American populist movement looks like, and what it can do — and its success stung the Activist Left at the exact moment that Scott Walker came along and not unreasonably decided that if he was elected on a platform of doing certain things, he had best start doing them. This infuriated the Left, but not as much as the refusal of Walker and the WI GOP to go weak-kneed at the first sign of push-back. So… the recall movement was born!
“And… fizzled. The Left should have cut their losses when Prosser demonstrated that drum circles and illegal indoor camping in the Rotunda didn’t translate into votes… and they definitely should have cut their losses when the first wave of recalls didn’t live up to the hype. But they didn’t, and now the people of Wisconsin are increasingly demonstrating that they’re tired of all of this – and they’re not blaming the Republicans, either. Such a shame, but that’s what you get whe- hey! The bacon’s fully cooked.”
- Moe Lane
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Unfortunately, on Glenn Beck’s FNC show, Hannan once expressed support for Obama and made an appeal for leniency. As much as I appreciate and respect Hannan, I can’t shake that he had such a blind spot.
@BayouBabe I think Hannan backed Obama in ’08 because he felt America needed catharsis after the Bush administration. Obama’s socialist tendencies weren’t quite so obvious then, and the potential change in America’s image abroad that Obama would bring would be to everybody’s benefit.
[...] And a couple of weeks ago he gave an address to the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa, which is something akin to CPAC in Washington (at which Hannan also gave an outstanding talk). [...]