Basil Marceaux/Sarah Palin 2012? Marceaux Tells Glenn Beck He’s Thinking About It
If Sarah Palin wanted to know the way Glenn Beck must have felt when she commented that him being on her 2012 campaign ticket would be a “hoot,” there’s a chance she might understand now. Bizarre viral video candidate for Tennessee governor Basil Marceaux continued making the rounds in the mainstream media today with an interview with Beck, where he said he would consider running for president if Palin was on his ticket.
Basil Marceaux burst onto the already crowded viral video market with a strange local news appearance where he rechristened himself “BasilMarceaux.com” and promised an end to all traffic stops. Now he’s a national superstar (?), appearing on Beck’s talk radio show to answer a few questions about his politics. Introduced by Beck’s dramatic reading of a Davy Crockett speech, Marceaux thanked Beck for appearing on the show and admitted he’s a regular viewer of the Fox News program. Beck thanked him and warned him that, well, “I think there are some within arm’s length currently that would question whether or not you’re a serious candidate.”
Countering Beck’s assertion, his co-host Pat Gray tried to prove how seriously he took Marceaux by asking about his presidential ambitions. Marceaux had a surprising answer, if anything about Basil Marceaux can still be considered surprising:
“Well, they want me to run for governor in California. I have a guy in West Virginia that wants to give me all his property so I can run for Virginia in West Virginia because up there all you have to do is own property to vote… There’s a website out there that says Marceaux and Palin in 2012… It takes a lot of signatures to become a candidate for President. If I get enough support from everyone out there to get me signatures, I’ll give it a shot because I don’t think anyone else is going to have guts to fix the country the way I want to fix it, where we all say a pledge to the republic and we actually mean it and we fly the real Betsy Ross flag.”
Ok, so the Palin for Veep idea wasn’t his, but he doesn’t mention it as if he were averse to it, and he knew better than to call it a “hoot.”Plus, he is only going to get to that point in his political career after becoming governor of California and then, West Virginia.
Marceaux also goes deep into the details of the badge he wears around his neck, which he says makes him “able to arrest people who break the Constitution.” He is the only person in America who has one, he says, but the right to arrest people comes from his work in the Marines (it’s in the Emancipation Proclamation, apparently). He also explained his aversion for traffic stops.
Video from today’s Glenn Beck program below:
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