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Tucker Carlson For Vice President? · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So in what was already shaping up to be the craziest election of all time
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  in twenty twenty four, maybe it could actually get a bit crazier. Here's
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  the headline. This is from Timcast. Donald Trump said he would consider Tucker
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  Carlson to be his vice president. Quote. It's not that we're conservative.
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  We have common sense. And you know those two words common sense. I
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  think they need to be used a lot more often these days. It's something
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  that Pierre Pullie, the leader of the Conservatives in Canada, who has a
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  big lead right now, overt Trudeau. He's using those words all the time,
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  common sense. And when you see leftist politicians and parties becoming more and
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  more far left and crazier and more and more incoherent, those words have power.
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  In fact, they may even have more power than the left's old magic
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  spell, which is call you an ist. And that spell seems to be
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  breaking as reality interrogates their ideology. And I think that should be the new
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  framing should be just democrat versus common sense, liberal party versus common sense,
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  labor versus common sense. But all of that said, I like this.
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  Here's Trump being interviewed by Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. Let's hear what he
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  had to say. I Tucker a lot. I guess I would. I
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  think I said I would because he's got great common sense, you know.
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  So he's leaving the door open there and I like it, And I guess
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  the question is would it actually work for him? I think that it would
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  because Tucker didn't have the highest ratings by far in cable news before he was
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  unceremoniously turfed by Fox for what looked like very political reasons. But he didn't
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  achieve that stature for nothing, and he didn't achieve it by being far right
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  or an extremist, as the lunatics say. He did it because he pivoted
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  from the establishment party line. He had Glenn Greenwald on there a lot,
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  He had Jimmy Dore on there a bunch of times. They're leftists, Jimmy
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  dor is a socialist, and Tucker didn't have them on there to be adversarial
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  with them, to argue about socialism. He had them on there for the
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  places where they agreed, like free speech, anti interventionism, opposition to government
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  overreach. So I think there are votes available that maybe maybe Tucker's the only
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  one who can bring them in and yeah, establishment forces absolutely hate him,
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  of course, but they're gonna hate anybody who runs with Trump. And I
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  think that with Tucker it's a unique opportunity. I'm not sure there could be
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  anybody better. Maybe Vivek. I like DeSantis too, but I mean that's
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  not gonna happen, is it. Now. All of that said, I
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  think we do have to face the sober truth here, and that is that
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  there is zero chance that Tucker Carlson would accept that opportunity. I think that
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  there is nothing that Tucker Carlson would enjoy less. I mean, here's an
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  article from twenty twenty one, Tucker Carlson on running for president. I guess
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  if like I was the last person on earth. So yeah, he's making
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  it pretty explicit, and I think he's voiced this at other occasions as well.
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  He has no interest, says Fox News is. Tucker Carlson said he
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  has no interest in running for the White House during an interview Friday with the
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  conservative podcast Ruthless. Oh God, come on, yeah, I'll be running,
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  Carlson said facetiously when asked if he was running for president. Carlson said
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  the job had no appeal to him and would also not be very popular with
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  his family. Quote that seems like a fun job. I'm sure my children
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  would love that. Can you imagine? I've known and talked to every president
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  you know for a while, for like more than thirty years, and you
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  know what, I can't think of anyone whose life was improved by that.
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  I mean, I guess if I was like the last person on earth,
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  I could do it, But I mean, it seems pretty unlikely that I
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  would be that guy. Now. Obviously we're talking about running for vice president
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  here, but I think for Tucker's purposes, it's kind of a distinction without
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  a difference in terms of not wanting to be a politician. Now, of
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  course, Tucker Carlson is very popular with conservatives, and certainly I think he'd
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  be a pretty formidable force, you know, the anti establishment, anti interventionist
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  and just his articulation of common sense ideas, Yeah, they're really appealing.
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  And I think to some extent he could be appealing to anti interventionist, anti
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  war, disaffected liberals, you know, the people who listen to like Glenn
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  Greenwald, Jimmy Dore. But the thing is he has to want to do
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  it, and I think it's pretty obvious that he doesn't, so hey,
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  it's fun to talk about, but I certainly wouldn't bet my house on it
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  I thank you for that. I will see an S time