ABC's Hasselbeck Suggests GOP Doomed to Lose In 2012, Should 'Consider Saving Their Cash' for 2016
On Thursday's The View on ABC, during a discussion of potential Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's challenge in having to talk about his history of failed marriages during a campaign, right-leaning co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck chimed in with a blatantly pessimstic view of Republican chances for winning the 2012 election. Hasselbeck, who has a history of endorsing GOP presidential candidates, quipped that "it could be over for the entire Republican Party" in the next election, and suggested they "consider saving their cash" for next time instead. Hasselbeck:
I'd also make the argument that it might, it could be over for the entire Republican Party in this election. I think maybe they should consider saving their cash and wait until 2016, if I may so boldly put that out there.
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Nice girl, but...
Submitted by unkeeaf on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:46am.
She's a poor spokesperson for the conservative movement. She couldn't explain how to make a grilled cheese sandwich effectively, much less articulate why the GOP is doomed in 2012. That's why they put her on the show - she's a harmless lightweight that can generally be bullied and talked over (with rare exceptions).Hate to correct you
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:57am.
MSM = PR firm for the Democrat Party
should be:
MSM = PR wing of the Democrat Party
Joe Scarborough in
Submitted by Rush Fan on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:51am.
disguise?
Thank You Ms. Hasselbeck
Submitted by Bourbeau on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:47am.
Now please, return to your mindless blabber on The View and remove yourself from any more suggestions about what this country needs to do in 2012 to straighten itself out of the lingering mess we're in.Of course if the One remains in office
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:58am.
for another term, our money will be worthless.Slow news day?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:52am.
...Hasselbeck on politics?!?!....Ok....I've always looked at her
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:57am.
I've always looked at her like an air head. She fits in perfect in with the others on the View.
If something is not done in 2012 there will not be a 2014 what's less 2016.
I always look at her....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:25pm.
when she's on that exercise commercial. What a bod!Yeah, a great staircase---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 8:34pm.
but an empty room at the top.Good grief.....
Submitted by Forbus on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:58am.
at this time in 1959 how many thought a young JFK could win the presidency? In 1975, no one had even heard of Jimmy Carter. Ronald Reagan was a radical cowboy who had no chance against an incumbent president. Excuse me...but what happened last November? There's not enough brain power on that show to fire up a light bulb.If we loose
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 9:58am.
So will everyone else. The dimwits havent gotten the message yet, that 1.6 trillion in deficit spending is not sustainable. 110 trillion in unfunded mandates, are not payable. Even if you steal all the wealth to pay these items, you can only steal it once!
What in the world is this?
Submitted by Thalpy on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:03am.
Is there some contest for the least relevant conservative in America? Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Meghan McCain are neck and neck.Thalpy
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:41am.
It's a contest for second place in that beauty contest. Romney already took the crown from Hassy and McCain.Wrong contest
Submitted by NCConservative on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:04pm.
Meghan McCain should not win a conserative anything contest, as she is anything but conservative. Perhaps she should enter the "least relevant political figure trying to make herself important" contest.Exactly right!
Submitted by Matthew Sheffield on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:08pm.
Exactly right!Oh ye of little faith
Submitted by CarolinaJimbo on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:17am.
Another 18 months of this, and ANY GOP candidate will win by a landslide.She caught libtard cooties from Joyless and the other dregs
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:29am.
Agreed. I love Hasslebeck, maybe the beauty cancels out what she says sometimes... Fact of the matter is IF things don't start getting MUCH better, the CHANCE IS THERE no matter what she or anyone else thinks or says. Ann Coulter while slapping around Hannity the other night put it best WE NEED TO FIGHT BACK and FIGHT BACK HARD. Bacchman in her own way has the RIGHT IDEA by not letting the host set the tone and when she has something to EXPOSE on these lying frauds she does so. She then can go and spin whatever stupidity the host is attempting to spew. SHE HAS THE FIRST PART DOWN PAT, EXPOSE and don't let the host bring you in the pro-Oblunder anti (fill in the Republicans name) direction they are PROPELLED to do. .She caught the libtard cooties part two....
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:32am.
I love Hasslebeck, maybe the beauty cancels out what she says sometimes... Fact of the matter is IF things don't start getting MUCH better, the CHANCE IS THERE no matter what she or anyone else thinks or says.Ann Coulter while slapping around Hannity the other night put it best WE NEED TO FIGHT BACK and FIGHT BACK HARD.
Bacchman in her own way has the RIGHT IDEA by not letting the host set the tone and when she has something to EXPOSE on these lying frauds she does so.
She then can go and spin whatever stupidity the host is attempting to spew. SHE HAS THE FIRST PART DOWN PAT, EXPOSE and don't let the host bring you in the pro-Oblunder anti (fill in the Republicans name) direction they are PROPELLED to do. .
Herman Cain for President 2012
I am beginning to like the
Submitted by goon on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:38am.
I am beginning to like the idea of Herman Cain and or Donald Trump for President.Agree partially
Submitted by optimist on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:31pm.
I would love to see Herman Cain in the White House. A definite no on Trump from me, though.I hate to break it to Elisabeth, but if things remain the way...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:56am.
...they currently are, by 2016 America will be an irretrievable communist hell-hole of a totalitarian country.
The time to prevent that from happening is right now - today, not in 2012, and most certainly not in 2016.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Really Elizabeth!
Submitted by Mainely Steve on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:02am.
And just who guided you to this opinion; Whoopi or Joyless?Great, we're just a few
Submitted by Smartypants on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:49am.
Great, we're just a few months removed from a massive Republican victory in the mid-term election and Hasselbeck is spouting about how there is no way for Republicans to win in 2012. There is so much that can happen between now and November of next year that it is absurd to predict how the election will turn out. If gas prices drive the economy further into the ground, all bets are off for Obama. Other than FDR, no president has been reelected with an unemployment rate > 8%. If Republicans give up on 2012 almost two years early, why even bother with 2016? You may as well give up on that, too. By then, Democrats will be so entrenched with their agenda that the tipping point would have been long passed. The problem with Republicans is that they continue to let the other side define them and set the agenda. Even after Novembers victories, many conservatives act like they lost. It is refreshing to see the stands taken in Wisconsin and elsewhere. I wish there was more of it in Washington, D.C.Uhm, another 4 years of
Submitted by dscott on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:50am.
Uhm, another 4 years of Obama's incompetence and there won't be a US that recognizable in 2016. November 2012 is it, game over one way or another. The country can't survive another doubling down of liberal incompetence from unsustainable policies, whether that be in the form of ObamaCare, EPA, budget deficits or taxation.Shes a Joe Scarborough clone
Submitted by brutony1 on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:07pm.
As the resident "conservative" on the Views panel is like being a Demoncrap in Obamas cabinet-more right leaning than the hard line socialists, but a leftist never the less! I threw up my hands over her for not fighting back against those libs, and agreeing most of the time with them!When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
She "may" be right
Submitted by Mark C on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:27pm.
I hope that President Obama does NOT get re-elected. But look at how many people who voted in '08 did not vote in '10. Also, look at the number of people that voted for him in '08 that had no clue what or for whom they were voting. He has the MSM on his side and a clueless electorate (thats powerful). That is why we need to nominate a strong candidate (I think any Republican would be better then him) and press HARD to keep him from being re-elected. Don't take him lightly nor think that '10 equals a victory in '12. Stay alert and on our toes and we CAN bring this country back to sanity. Thanks for taking the time to read. Retired AF MSGTElisabeth Hasselbeck, Held hostage like Patty Hearst.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:35pm.
Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, essentially mistaking a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness
You Didn't Build That.
I think she may be right about this one.
Submitted by Bradford on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:51pm.
Given the fact that BO is a known quantity, albeit a poor president, and people like continuity I think she makes a good point. So far there has been no GOP star rising on the sort term horizon that will beat an incumbent president. Let's concentrate on the Senate and House and put our might where it will do the most good, holding the purse strings. 2016 isn't that far away.Once gas goes to $5 a gallon
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 5:05pm.
You could run a pile of excrement and beat this bozo.What in God's name is she
Submitted by Thoreau on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:02pm.
What in God's name is she talking about? Did she miss the last elections? That was just a teaser. We don't get to sink our teeth into Senator's until next round.My God, they're starting already
Submitted by BikerHoop on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:09pm.
Don't you think it's just a little early to start the campaign to convince Repubicans/Conservatives that their candidate(s) doesn't stand a chance in 2012? Obviously they are really scared of Odumbo self-imploding and losing the office for them... and they are correct to be scared. Right now, however, our concern is best placed on the Senate and House and holding our representatives feet to the fire, especially on defunding Obamacare. That hidden $105 billion is enough to fund Obamacare for quite some time. Here is Eric Kantor's Washington DC phone number--202-225-2815. Call him and urge him to keep his pledge to Laura Ingraham that he would work immediately to defund Obamacare. He can do this by adding the $105B that Steve King (R, Iowa) and Michelle Bachmann have identified as the initial hidden funding for Obamacare to the $61B in budget cuts. Do not let Boehner and Kantor off the hook! Call him!HASSELBECK IS RIGHT!
Submitted by cbeyer on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:11pm.
I despise everything Barack Obama he stands for. He is absolutely the most radical POTUS ever and is a doctrinaire ultra leftist. That said, the MSM loves him and he will easily be reelected. Can you imagine what the media would be saying if there was a Republican president with no energy policy and gas prices rising towards $4/gallon, 10% unemployment (higher if you consider the total picture), mailaise in foreign policy etc etc. There would be nightly news broadcasts about the misery index, interviews with people who had been seaching for work for a couple of years with no results, constant references to an administration that had no direction or leadership. But guess what....with BO, it isnt happening! Instead, we read that the economy is recovering. Stunning rises in gasoline prices are no big deal. Our lack of any coherent policy in the crumbling Middle East is really brilliance on the part of Obama. The NYT and other liberal news outlets impugne Fox News and conservative talk radio but thats a joke. When you combine all the major media news outlets, major city newspapers, AP, Reuters, and others that reach infinitely larger audiences on a daily basis.....the voices on the right are truly miniscule. The MSM parrots on a daily basis, much of what comes out of the Whitehouse talking points machine as news. That alone is a huge factor in Obama's reelection advantage. Combine that with a lackluster group of Republican candidates and Obama's reelection is a done deal. Gingrich has enough baggage to fill an oversized garbage truck. Huckabee is anything but inspiring. Romney would be a great President but his healthcare ties in Mass. and lack of conservative purity when viewed by the more conservative elements of the party will doom him. Palin has been effectively destroyed by the media. Who else is there? No one of note. Sad to say..tragically....BO will cruise to victory in 2012.Conservative?
Submitted by Joe W. on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:20pm.
Elizabeth is about as conservative as Kathleen Parker.Brain Softening
Submitted by Gothampc on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:32pm.
It just proves that if you hang around liberals too long, you go soft in the brain. If EVER, there was a time for the GOP to clinch the POTUS position, it is now. I for one won't vote for Newt, but there are several other candidates who are more than ready for the GOP nomination. (Bobby Jindal?)This tactic is called "pre-emptive surrender"
Submitted by redright88 on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:35pm.
It's been used successfully by liberals for decades, when faced with armed conflict. Elizabeth should keep her yap shut.Stop all handwringing over the GOP candidate NOW!!
Submitted by gopcongress on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 1:56pm.
Hasselbeck is nothing more than a RINO, therefore irrelevant. But the REAL issue is that we should not even be trying to figure out who the GOP nominee will be at this time. Keep in mind the press are going to do their DAMNEDEST to find and promote the hell out of the biggest non-Tea Party candidate they can find, and then the media will frame the argument as "Republicans need to put out moderate if they have a chance to win" bullpuckey as they did with McCain.
Hasselbeck is doing nothing more than provided the media with a "legitimate right-wing source reading the tea-keaves." Hasselbeck is NOT a conservative nor a libertarian; hence, what she says is irrelevant in the effective cause of our movement.
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
She has been..................
Submitted by Patriot II on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 2:06pm.
exposed to the pigs on the view for tooooo long!Not a fan
Submitted by crusain on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 3:01pm.
EH is a clown. She is not a conservative. She gleefully joins in the attacks against religious conservatives made by her fellow coven members on the View. Back to the island EH.I hope she is right and they do lose.
Submitted by Ashrak on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 3:33pm.
I am all for Establishment GOP Republicans losing and them being beaten by conservative libertarians who will actually put the Constitution first to reign in unjust actions from the foolish spending to the foolish regulation. ;)~I still do not think B.O. is
Submitted by Smartypants on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 4:29pm.
I still do not think B.O. is going to get the support from Independents that he received in 2008. It was their votes that carried him to victory, and he has done enough to turn many of them off. It is still early, however, and anything can happen; it's just premature to insist someone who has performed so awfully cannot be beaten. B.O. is one of the worst presidents in modern history, period. Many people recognize this now, which is why the mid-term elections were so lopsided. His approval ratings are overstated. Granted, the country still has a host of ignorant fools who believe whatever they are spoon-fed by the media; I do not necessarily buy the idea that there are sufficient numbers of them to guarantee Obama another term.And this is why Hasselbeck is such a valued political analyst...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 4:49pm.
and consultant...She should confine herself to the usual drivel that they discuss on "The View" and leave the serious topics to those who have a bit more horsepower under the hood.
Seriously though, I have no idea if the Repubs will beat Obama in '12. I hope and pray that they do, because the idea of another 4 years of "The Clueless One" is more than I can bear. That said, most of the currently higher polling Repubs don't fill me with excitement and inspiration. Some of the lesser known people who have either announced or who are seriously thinking of running are far more interesting to me than the so-called "big name" potential candidates are. I'm just afraid that the Repubs will end up nominating someone who will be yet another McCain, and this election will be a choice between Obama and the "anybody but Obama" candidate...
Not exactly a recipe for success...We'll see.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Another Media Annointed Conservative
Submitted by Tom Paine on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 5:13pm.
Have you noticed that whenever the media anoint a designated female conservative spokesman, it is always a well meaning but meek individual like Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a bubblehead like Meghan McCain or CINO like Kathleen Parker. In Elisabeth’s case she has been put on that show as token opposition that can be easily rolled by the other libs on the panel whenever she tries to make a point. I’d love to see the day they would invite Ann Coulter or Laura Ingrahm on the show so I could watch those liberal sows run for cover.If even the most average
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 6:52pm.
If even the most average conservative couldn't win against the most spendthirft leftwing government in our history, in 2012, then this country is lost. I happen to think that a tsunami is going to happen again in 2012 and sweep out another dozen or more democraps in the Senate, to the unemployment line. I think that even with the media propping up our affirmative action President, he will do less well than Jimmy Carter did in 1980.agreed eaglewings.
Submitted by Cyborg 0427 on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 8:35pm.
To me what I see even on ABC News and other liberal sites the all the money being dumped into the re-election of Obama is going for nothing. Even my dad, a dyed in the wool FDR liberal saw through the shinola in WI and supported the take down of the public unions. We are comming to a point that all the ads, money, crying liberal MSM rants are going to nothing. Anybody with the least brain knows this country is in trouble. They also know Obama lied to everybody he talked to during his election and the tea-party is growing every day. The only real question is which republican will be elected. To me the only person that will really help this country is Ron Paul. Herman Cain is just another Federal Reserve puppet. The biggest problem in this country by far is the Federal Reserve. Herman Cain will do nothing to stop it.