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GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: You had to
vote today, who would you vote for? You had a gun to your
head. You can't say, -- I guess you can say, but you end up
dead. You're in the voting booth. Somebody has a gun to your
head and you are like, but I'm not ready yet; I don't really
know for sure, I'm not really -- pull the lever, pull the
trigger. Which is it? Dan? Who is it?
DAN: Still Rudy Giuliani for me.
GLENN: Okay, no movement on you, with you at all?
DAN: No. I do want him to stop the cell phone calls
immediately.
GLENN: Yes.
DAN: As soon as he stops that, I'll be --
GLENN: Solidly there.
DAN: Yeah, but I'm there.
GLENN: Stu, where are you?
STU: I'm going to also remain in the Giuliani camp, although
I've said over and over again I could go to Romney easily
and I still would like to know more about Fred Thompson.
GLENN: Have you moved -- I would like to hear more from Fred
Thompson as well. Have you moved at all from Giuliani or are
you still the same place? Is it weakened? Is it stronger,
weak, about the same?
STU: I would say about the same. I haven't seen anything
that would make me move off of him, although I think
Romney's very strong.
GLENN: Our gun nut.
STU: Interestingly enough, Glenn, the gun nut is the one
that's going to have his head splattered against the wall
with a gun to your head.
GLENN: Really? Adam, how would you vote?
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ADAM: I would have to -- I would have to do write-in
candidate of Giuli-Romney. I'm moving away from Giuliani
towards Romney but I am not there yet. But I can write in a
vote. This is America.
GLENN: All right. Throwing away your vote again.
STU: That's not a candidate. That is not a candidate. Adam's
head is splattered against the wall.
DAN: That was Giuliani. He said he hadn't moved over there
yet.
GLENN: Well, there goes Adam. It was nice to know you, Adam.
Get the other guys on the phone and do the list. Sarah's out
this week. So she can't vote. I have moved out of the
Giuliani camp and I have -- only because I have a gun to my
head, I moved into the Romney camp and it is -- I still, I
have to hear him talk about healthcare because I don't trust
him on this healthcare thing. What did you do up in
Massachusetts? What, are you nuts?
DAN: What changed you? Let me ask you that. What changed
you? Because this is only a month ago that we did this.
GLENN: I know, what changed me was thinking more about
Giuliani. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my
friend, and I just don't know if I trust him behind closed
doors. I just don't know if he's the kind of guy that isn't
just somebody who's like, screw them; we're doing it. And
that's part of what I like, but I'm not sure of his moral
fiber, you know? And I -- you know, I told you right after I
said Giuliani last time. I said, but I kind of feel -- I
feel a little dirty for that because character matters, and
I think if it wasn't for the character issue, I think if I
really trusted his character, I'd be in.
DAN: But there's nothing really to convict him in a court of
law on his character.
GLENN: No, there's not.
DAN: It's just suspicions at this point.
GLENN: No, it's not even suspicions. It's just -- I don't
know. It's not as much about Giuliani as I just don't --
there's something about it just kind of, I don't know. And
when it comes to Romney, I think I do know. I think I do
know. I know the guy. I may not agree with him on some
things, but I know the guy is -- it's not going to be a
scandal ridden administration. There's not going to be
scandal there. You know, it's just not going to be a guy who
is lying and then screwing us behind our back. He'll tell
us, he'll tell us, you know, what his opinion is and then
he'll -- you know, and then he will do it, like it or not.
But I don't see him getting into bed with bad people. And I
also, more importantly, the other thing that changed me was
standing across the street from the White House. It was a
couple of weeks ago and I was having dinner and it was up on
this rooftop across the street from the White House and I'm
looking down on it and I'm looking right into the Oval
Office and I'm also looking at other rooftops and going,
hey, look, guys with guns. But I'm looking down into the
Oval Office and I thought to myself, my gosh, that's where
it all happens, where millions, hundreds of millions of
people, their fate, their fortunes, their lives, whether
they are going to live or die or whether they are going to
be in freedom or not in freedom, whether they are going to
be enslaved with high taxes, whether they can pursue their
dreams all happen in that room. And I was thinking that and
I thought how many -- I know how many have the ego to be
able to run and be the President of the United States, how
many also have the humility that it requires that goes right
hand in hand. How many are humble enough, how many are
strong enough leaders and strong enough in what they know to
be able to stand up and say, excuse me, no, I told you we're
not doing that. And then at the same time when they make a
decision that they close that office door and they literally
get down on their knees and they say, okay, Lord, I mean,
I'm doing the best I can, but hundreds of millions of
people's lives are at stake; help me. This is the decision
I've made; please move me in another direction if that's not
the direction that you want me to go. I've got to have a guy
I know is on his knees, have to. Because the decisions are
too big. The problems are too massive and if you just
believe that your answer is the answer, I know, because I'm
an alcoholic, I know how I screw it up every time when I do
it my way. It's not my way that should be done, and I need a
President that understands that because the decisions are
just too massive. And that was really the pivot point for
me. And that's honestly why I take another look at Huckabee
because I gotta have a guy like that.
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You know, here's the other thing I've been thinking about.
The things that are still out for me on Romney, and I'm by
no means locked into that one, but the healthcare thing
really bothers me. Is that what's keeping you away from it,
Stu?
STU: I would say --
GLENN: Because Giuliani's healthcare, his answer is the best
I've heard.
STU: Yeah, Giuliani has the best answer to healthcare. I
feel like the majority of the things that I compare them, I
feel like I like Giuliani a little bit more in all of them.
GLENN: Okay.
STU: But the main, the biggest difference between the two is
healthcare for me because it's not even remotely close.
GLENN: The other thing that I find interesting, and I
thought it was a negative, is how he won't commit on the war
and the surge, and I really, truly believe thaws because
he's spooked by his father. His father, you know, said that
we should be in the Vietnam War and I think in '66 he went
over to Vietnam and then he was running for President
against Nixon and things were going very well for him and
his father came out and they asked him about Vietnam after
he came back from Vietnam and he said, I think I've been
brainwashed. I think we all have been. We've been lied to by
our military leaders and by this administration, and that
wasn't a popular thing for a Republican to say. And his
career was over, and I actually kind of like that. I think
I've actually kind of changed a little bit there on, I like
the cautiousness of somebody saying, you know what, I want
to make sure everything is right. And that's all he's been
saying on the surge is, looks like it's been working; let's
see the whole thing.
Here's our phone number. 888-727-BECK. 888-727-BECK.
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GLENN: Bandwagon, Bandwagon Boys.
Well, let me see here. We go to John Bobby. Do you know
which one he is? Who else is on? John Bobby?
CALLER: Hello, Glenn.
GLENN: One of the writers for the television and radio
program. John has lived the last 15 years here in New York
City. So he has been corrupted. He has had the liberal virus
implanted into his head and it's just consuming his body.
And soon his bank account. And have you changed your vote?
Last time you voted for Giuliani.
CALLER: Yes, Giuliani supporter.
GLENN: And this time are you still Giuliani?
CALLER: I am not.
GLENN: Really? What happened?
CALLER: Quite honestly it was the two sort of stone stunts,
the cell phone stunts. One of them happened with you at the
NRA. I just can't vote for a guy who would do that.
GLENN: That's your -- wait a minute, wait a minute. That's
your line?
CALLER: Yes.
GLENN: The phone stunt? You're kidding me.
CALLER: I can't give that guy a key to the office with the
button.
GLENN: Why do you say that?
CALLER: This seems like such a bad judgment. First of all,
because I'm thinking not only are you voting for the
President, you are also voting in all of the people around
him or her in this case. So if Giuliani didn't have at least
one guy who said, dude, don't do the phone thing, come on,
that's going to be lame, I can't trust that guy or anybody
else around him. I have people in mine that say, John, just
don't do that. I don't always listen to them, either, but
I'm not run --
GLENN: But it worked the first time he did it.
CALLER: It worked the first time and maybe once is kind of
funny but the second time it just seems tacky and I just, I
can't do that.
GLENN: This is -- I mean, I don't know if you know this,
John. He is not running for the office of comedian of the
United States.
CALLER: Well, granted. We all know that whoever's President
does generate a lot of comedy.
GLENN: Yes, all right. See, this is just proof positive that
people are stupid and make decisions for -- oh, you know
what, you've got to get back on the line because I forgot to
ask him who he switched to. Just mark him down for Clinton.
CALLER: He's telling me Clinton.
GLENN: See, there you go, Clinton, all right. And who is
this? Which one of the -- this is Kevin. Hi, Kevin.
KEVIN: Hey, Glenn.
GLENN: All right, Kevin, writer of the Real Story,
right-thinking American. Who are you voting -- who did you
vote for last time?
KEVIN: Last time I was Giuliani but low conviction.
GLENN: Low conviction on Giuliani. So you really kind of
where I was?
KEVIN: Yes.
GLENN: And has that changed?
KEVIN: Unfortunately, and I hate to follow your lead again,
I hate to jump on your bandwagon but I am now low conviction
Romney.
GLENN: Exactly where I am. I'm low conviction Romney, too.
KEVIN: Slightly different reason than you.
GLENN: All right. What is it?
KEVIN: My thing over the last few months is I've really
turned onto the economy in terms of just getting our
financial house in order. And with all these stories we've
been doing about, you know, just the unbelievable cost for
Medicare and healthcare and Social Security, everything
we're going to be facing, I don't understand how we're going
to fight Islam or anybody else with 80 or 90% tax rates and
so I feel like if we run this country like a business, which
Romney to me is the guy who's proven we can do that, that we
have a much better chance of winning every other fight we
need to fight.
GLENN: What was the business that he ran? What was that
thing that he like --
KEVIN: He did the Salt Lake Olympics obviously.
GLENN: I know. That thing was a nightmare, full of
corruption, everything else. He cleaned that thing out and
they came out with, what, a $50 million surplus? And he did
the same thing with the surplus in Massachusetts. They were
in -- when he joined, they had a deficit, he had a $3
million surplus or a $3 billion surplus when he left. What
was the company? Do you remember his company name?
KEVIN: It was Bain.
GLENN: Do you know the story behind that? Because it's like
one of the more incredible business stories.
KEVIN: Well, Bain, he founded Bain Capital which is just one
of the most unbelievable consulting groups around. So he's
got that. I mean, and remember the Big Dig fiasco in Boston,
also. They brought him back in and he's like, that's it, I'm
done with you guys, I'm done with all you contractors who
are screwing this over, I'm taking this over.
GLENN: Yeah, I know, but did he fix it?
KEVIN: I don't think anyone died in the last year.
GLENN: Okay, all right. We got a high buyer on that one. So
you are for Romney, low conviction.
KEVIN: Yes.
GLENN: Okay. Thank you, appreciate it.
STU: We also have line 9 is Jeff Fisher.
GLENN: Jeff Fisher.
JEFF: Yes, hello.
GLENN: Yes, go ahead. Last time you were for?
JEFF: Last time I was for John Thompson but I think I'm --
GLENN: Wait, wait. You mean Fred Thompson?
JEFF: Fred Thompson.
GLENN: You were really hard in the his camp, wearing the
T-shirt and everything.
JEFF: I was actually.
GLENN: And now you are in the Hillary camp?
JEFF: I tell you I saw Hillary and Bill Clinton walking
through a crowd the other day and I thought, if Bill ran
today, he would get back in the White House. So I think it
would win by a landslide.
GLENN: He is not running.
JEFF: He would be in the White House, though.
GLENN: Yes, he would be in the White House and I would
imagine so would carpet cleaners. I'm just saying. Our
carpet cleaning bill may go up.
JEFF: That's not a bad thing.
GLENN: You think? All right, so you are in Clinton -- no,
really. Why did you switch to Clinton? From Fred Thompson?
That's quite a --
JEFF: That is quite a shift. I was always leaning toward
Hillary. I've always liked her. It takes a village.
GLENN: It takes a village to what? Satisfy her man or... I'm
just -- oh, well, there it is.
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