Posted on 10/15/2009 11:23:27 PM PDT by American Dream 246
What's Glenn Beck Up To? Something Big, He Says Hey -- we like conspiracies too! Here's one, with some fact attached to it: conservative media icon Glenn Beck is planning something big -- very big -- for 2010. On his radio show yesterday, Beck alluded to a major nationwide mobilization project of some kind that he and some colleagues will soon announce. "If you think the 9/12 project was something...you ain't seen nothing yet," he said (roughly -- I didn't have a pen handy when he uttered this). Beck's 9/12 project brought tens of thousands of his ideological compatriots to rallies in D.C., and thousands more at rallies across the country. The event, he insisted, was "non-political" -- about sending a message to leaders that the feeling of American solidarity the day after 9/11/01 was worth fighting for. But Beck, at the time, also announced a follow-on project, "2010: In Or Out," asking people to determine whether their elected representatives support a five-part pledge. That was the first step, he implied, of several to come.
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If you think for 5 seconds that the people marching on Washington caused no concern with liberals, you are sadly mistaken. They have always counted on conservative people to sit on their hands. If Beck creates an event where a combined 50 million people show up at their county courthouse, you can bet it’ll have a huge impact. Beck is the only one smart enough to realize America won’t take much more.
Beck has very good relations with and a lot in common with Sarah Palin. Could it be possible that the tidal wave of sales of Going Rogue is going to be used to jump start Palin’s recently announced new political organization, and join it with Beck and his grassroots followers, and the Tea Party organization. If so, we could very well be witnessing history in the making here. Latest polls show that twice as many people self identify as conservative as liberal, yet the gop is languishing, because of its insistance that democrat lite is the way to go. A new, revitalized truly conservative movement may be just what the doctor ordered.
Hang onto your seat, this could get really bumpy over the next couple of years.
IMHO he’s trying to get us to take back the party and bring it along with us, marginalizing only the RINOs.
Personally I’ll trade Snowe or her seat for two RealCons (I think I just made that up) from the Midwest.
My attitude toward "official organs of the Republican Party" is, to the say the least, one of suspicion and distrust.
“If Rush Limbaugh can be defeated in his quest to give somebody else his money, it is understandable why mere politicians shrink from saying anything that would focus liberal limelight on them and cause themselves to be the object of race baiting.”
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Except for the fact that Rush had to battle as a solitary person. Long before this incident, I had become increasingly furious that our cowering Repubs have let Beck & Rush twist in the wind as if they were some crazy uncles in the attic they don’t want to acknowledge belongs in their family.
It has become factually obvious that Marxists have taken control of the Federal government-—not to mention higher education, with “lower” education currently conducting indoctrination-— with the implicit consent of a collaborating media. While most TV news-viewing Americans are not yet aware of this fact, our senators & congressmen are.
All it would take is for a small group from the House and Senate to start an intelligent, disruptive campaign with the counter talking-point mantra -—Red, not black, is our problem-—each and every time a Dem (including the talking heads) uses one of their code-word insinuations of racism.
The mantra would
1) disarm the murderess intent of the racism weapon;
2) it would inform a sleepy public of a danger that is already visible and yet not comprehended;
3) it-—perhaps-—might cause moderate Dems to question how they are being perceived;
4) it would allow that unfamiliar word “Constitution” to be uttered with more frequency; and
5) it would provide a platform for a public discussion as to why confiscation of private assets by the Federal government is counter-productive to job creation and a healthy economy.
I just don’t see the downside-—unless they (the Repubs) are being blackmailed-—in which case it might be more difficult, but hopefully not impossible, to find two such willing groups in the Senate & House (and among State Governors, for that matter).
OK how do we rid the GOP of “Snowe, McCain, Graham, Collins and the squish McConnal”?
Communism sure did a number on our enemies, didn’t it?
Have said that, I agree we are obligated to hold up our end of the bargain too.
Regards
Though we have the record of the Reagan Revolution and the Contract for America and other successes we have shown an inertia against organization and street level political work, especially within the Republican party.
Look at how the hard left took over the Democratic party. They attacked hard and got rid of the Scoop Jacksons and Zell Millers and Norm Colemans. They fought tooth and nail to get Obama elected. They had all the legislation pre-written for when he was elected and boasted of it before the election.
If we are worth our talk and our words we need to get out and do the hard work of transforming the Republican party. It will not be given to us. We have to take it back and fight hard to do it. We have to fight as hard as the left did and harder.
We need to join the organizing committees and become delegates and organizers. We need to become election judges. Take the day off work and drive people to the polls. Get rid of the RINOs by working for good candidates and getting them elected instead. Work hard and be smart. Work the phones for a candidate you can believe in. Become a candidate. Get out there and fight.
We need to join and infiltrate our way into the party apparatus. We need to network and recognize each other so we can see who our fellow conservatives are doing the same thing and help them out even though they may not agree on our favorite color or brand of beer.
And when the old guard won't let us in we push in. We force our way in the door. We don't take no for an answer. We get up off our fat, blovating asses and do something.
It will be dirty and uncomfortable and we will bloody our knuckles. It will be hard work. It will be as hard as Nathaniel Greene or Daniel Morgan had it during the Revolutionary War. Look at what they gave to something they believed in.
There is a level of unremitting, steely determination we need to muster that will take us though to win this fight.
Nathan is right. This is no ordinary fight. It is possible to fail and to lose this country. The left is deadly serious. We have to be even more determined and harder working than they are.
We have to take over the Republican party like John Paul Jones took over the Serapis. We cannot hold back or shrink from getting our hands dirty or doing something unfamiliar. We can do this. We can take back the Republican party in order to save America. We have to do this or we will lose America.
Mr Sol
I'd say that the RNC has done a bang-up job of marginalizing itself without any help from Mr. Beck.
Those boneheads in DC better get the message this time. To whit we're sick of their crap. Straighten up. Fight for the principles this Nation was founded on or go the way of the Whigs.
L
Right on target. It's why they feed Beck(I'm guessing), Van Jones.
If we are worth our talk and our words we need to get out and do the hard work of transforming the Republican party. It will not be given to us. We have to take it back and fight hard to do it. We have to fight as hard as the left did and harder.
Wow, some of you guys still believe in elections?
AND get involved personally in your local GOP County comittee. If they are RINO then confront them and vote the Local GOP Chairperson out.
All you have to do to raise firestorm on these threads is to praise Newt Gingrich and offer him up as presidential timber. Yet he is by your standard the only man who contrived a way to nationalize a by- election and reversing decades of history and place Republicans in power who would act conservatively, again by your standard. Thereafter, these Republicans, under Gingrich's leadership, put through all but one of the provisions of the contract with America. Gingrich took the Congress to the point of twice shutting down the federal government. He forced balance budgets of the Clinton administration and the reform of welfare.
And yet Republicans by the bushel basket full deserted Gingrich and to this day they turn their face away from the contract with America. Do you recall how so many people got nervous when Clinton contrived to blame the government shutdown on the Republicans? Do you recall how Republicans turned on Gingrich after the media distorted Gingrich's anger over being mistreated on Air Force One? Gingrich was assaulted by bogus ethics charges and many Republicans shamefully deserted him. His marital indiscretions did not include perjury as did Bill Clinton's whom he criticized for the crimes he committed. Yet many many conservatives will have no further truck with them because of his adultery.
I read FReepers on these threads say they will not trust Gingrich because he is not a reliable conservative. He has done many things which destress me as well. Just today I understand he endorsed the Republican House candidate in New York State in exchange for her written commitment not to raise taxes. I think he was wrong, as was George Bush, when Gingrich pandered to Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, just as George Bush pandered to Teddy Kennedy.
Yet I will not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good. We are all of us born in original sin. We are not going to find the perfect conservative, even considering Ronald Reagan, this side of the cross. We must make do by modeling the clay we are given. To indignantly and loudly abandon all efforts to sort out the good from the bad and the better from the worse is to succumb to cynicism which, while it offers certain short-term psychological empty calories, leaves the world vulnerable to the unscrupulous.
My point is that it is not entirely a one-sided problem. If our Republican politicians are untrustworthy, we Republicans ourselves are at best fickle. We ask our politicians to fall on their swords for conservative principle, but we abandon them at the slightest whiff of scandal when the media succeeds in undermining them.
There is some truth in the axiom that people get the kind of government they deserve.
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