Joe Wilson for President? Fox Biz 'Happy Hour' Crew Ponders Congressman's Political Future

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This is a notion that hasn't really gotten any traction anywhere yet, but could Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. be a viable 2012 presidential election candidate? 

The hosts of Fox Business Network's "Happy Hour," Eric Bolling, Rebecca Diamond and Cody Willard, contemplated that possibility on their Sept. 14 show, which comes on the eve of a vote on a "resolution of disapproval" on Wilson for calling out "You lie!" as President Barack Obama spoke to a joint-session of Congress Sept. 9.

"First off, House Dems appear set to censure South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson for shouting ‘you lie' at President Obama during last week's health care speech, but Wilson is not backing down," Diamond said. "He told Fox News Sunday he will not apologize to the House tomorrow. Instead, he is turning this - all of this into a fund-raising campaign, claiming he has raised $1 million since the outrage incident last Wednesday. So we are asking, ‘Hit or Miss' on whether Democrats risk turning Representative Wilson into a viable conservative candidate for 2012."

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Diamond said Wilson was a quickly becoming a threat with the increased attention the House Democrats were generating for the South Carolina congressman.

"I say this is a hit because he is definitely hitting a nerve with all the people who were protesting over the weekend," Diamond said. "This would be his constituency, so you know it is helping to keep his name in the spotlight there. Most people didn't even know who he was before."

Willard gave opposite marks for Wilson, based largely on his interpretation of the question.

"I'm going to call it a miss only because of the phraseology of it - as a conservative candidate?" Willard said. "No, this guy is part of the Republican/Democrat socialist liberal regime that is empowering."

According to Willard, a theme he has iterated on numerous occasions, anyone claiming affiliation with the Republican or Democratic Party is bad, regardless the political reality.

"I don't understand what that means," Willard continued. "He's a Republican. The Republicans and Democrats are the same. They are owned by Wall Street. They are owned by corporate America. He is owned by corporate America. It's a miss. He's not a conservative. He might be a Republican candidate."

The third member of the cast, Bolling, chalked Wilson's political future for the 2012 cycle "a hit." According to Bolling, this is evident by the way Obama has reacted to questions about the Wilson incident.

"And the way I read the question I think it is a hit," Bolling said. "The more they talk about it - in fact Obama last night on ‘60 Minutes' tried to sweep it under the rug real quickly because he realizes the more you talk about Rep. Joe Wilson, the more money he raises. He is raising a ton of money to compete I guess in about a year or so to win that seat - very, very important South Carolina seat."


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if calling the president is a qualification to be a candidate

for president, good ole joe would be way down a  list, headed by a bunch of democrat congress critters.

Look

The overwhelming majority of Americans KNEW Wilson was correct in standing up and saying "You Lie!", because Obama DID lie.  The insertion of verification-specific language into the legislation two days later bears cold, hard witness to that FACT.

The CNN reporter that asked the 9/12 Project/TEA Party crowd if they backed Wilson and what he did got a resounding and clear "YES!"  Wilson's already got a following, appreciative he had the cojones to stand up for the TRUTH where and when he did.  That DOES take chutzpah.

Americans are tired of the corruption that's so evident throughout the Obama administration.  Come on.  Your head has to buried someplace where the sun doesn't shine to be ignorant of the unqualified and inexperienced "relationships" Obama has put into powerful, policy and decision-making positions in our government.

Wilson had the guts to call Obama out.  His actions resulted in the RIGHT thing being done.  For once.  Had Wilson not stood up, every illegal would be "officially" eligible for Obamacare.  They still get it, it's just not spoken about (no one is turned away from an American medical facility when they need medical attention).

Re President

Don't know about President; unfortunately Miss Graham is not up for reelection until 2014 so he can't challenge him in a primary until then. Wilson is not a great public speaker, that's one area he needs to work on.

To any challenger's benefit, the question of relevant experience needed to be President is now out the window, thanks to the Bamster.

Slick

In the spirit of political correctness; that's Ms. Graham. ;-)

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

See I told you so...

 "Joe, who's the nut that hollered out, 'you lie'?'"  ~  are you sure it   wasn't that nut Glenn Beck??     

 Congressman Joe Wilson's wife Roxanne

 

Too bad for your team that

Too bad for your team that a majority of the American People think that Joe Wilson was correct even if they disagreed with his method of expressing his opinion. 

Obama was abusing the privilege of addressing a joint session of Congress by lying to the Congress from the lecturn of the House.  If these feckless Dem stooges running the House had any integrity, they would Censure Obama for giving false information to the House.  Their own CRS report says that Illegals will be serviced by Obamacare.   Obama was lying when he said otherwise.

The more time passes, the more your team looks the jack-booted thugs and Marxist political goons thay are.

There has not been a censure of this kind in the House since 1921, when Rep. Blanton (D) of Texas was unanimously censured for inserting a lurid passage into the Congressional Record that was not actually read or spoken on the floor of the House.   Only 7 times previously has the House censured a member for Unaparlaimentary Language, a plurality of these during the contentious Reconstruction era 1866 - 1880.  No one has EVER been censured for making a purely political statement such as Wilson made at any House proceeding in the history of the body.

  Well, he does appear to

 

Well, he does appear to be smarter than most other Republican politicians.

They're behind the curve

 I predicted this about 5 days ago.

People would be wise to pay more attention to me :)

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Although I agree with at

Although I agree with at least one of Joe's opinions, he seems a little "sheepish" to be in a Presidential Dog fight!

 

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

Wilson votes.... 240

Wilson votes....

240 Yea

177 Nay

12 dems voted Nay

3 voted Present

7 lovely Repubs voted Yea with the dems.

 

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

badge of honor

this politcal wrangling and posturing and general hysteria has taken what was 'wrong' and made it into a 'right'.  He apologized directly to the person he accused, he should not have to lick peoples boots.  I've had an opportunity to look over some of the bills Wilson has submitted.  I particularly like his congressional pay reform bill.  But I don't think he is Presidential material.  He seems to blush and fluster a bit.  You can hear the emotion in his voice - he's a passionate person.  Where he is, is probably exactly where he needs to be.

I hope he puts the censure notice on his wall.

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