A year ago, we were told the Republican party and the conservative movement were moribund.
Bill, your problem is you equate the GOP with the conservative movement. It is NOT. Yes, they have a conservative platform, and yes, people like DeMint, Coburn, King, and a HANDFUL of others are conservative.
But Bill, you were fellating Romney, Rudy and McCain during the 08 primaries. While CONSERVATIVES were telling you time and time and time again that nomintating one of these boobs was a sure way to defeat. You ignored WE THE PEOPLE. Beck's success is due in large part because he is a conservative first, not a party hack.
Party hacks like Michael Medved tell us that JD Hayworth is corrupt and McCain is a virtuous conservative. Hacks like Hugh Hewitt spend an entire election season telling us a flip flopper extradinaire is the heir to Reagan.
Sean Hannity was probably as responsible for Arnold defeating a genuine conservative opponent for CA governor as anyone alive. And followed that disaster up by pimping Rudy G for president!
It goes on and on.
I certainly do not agree with Beck on a number of things. But his indictment of the GOP and its enablers like you Mr. Bennett, as being socialist light, is right on the money.
Remember, the Amnesty Plan was a Bush-McCain-Kennedy-Graham connivance. That's 3 GOPers and one marxist. The idea to close Gitmo was most prevalently pushed by Graham and Mccain. The global warming hoax was also perpetrated by myriad RINOs, despite conservatives telling them it was a HOAX. The onerous attack on the first amendment was called McCain-Feingold-Thompson!! Your boys Rudy and Mittwit were pimping right along with Slick Willy for the ban on those scary looking "assualt weapons". And Rudy tried to sue the gun manufacturers out of bizness, yet to you, Mr. Bennett, he was viable GOP presidential material.
And what about the retard Michael Steele, head of the RNC, who just recently complained that the attacks on him from the right were "racist"?
So wake up Mr. Bennett. We are trying to re-start and finish the Reagan revolution, and have been doing so for years without the help of the GOP and their big government enablers like you.
Regarding Beck:
Anybody who states that the GOP has a segment of RINO big government lovers is correct.
Anybody who states that the GOP is the same as Obama and his Dem minions is deluded.
Beck is schizophrenic...one day a conservative, one day an anti Socialist, on other days so Libertarian that he is into nutty Ron Paul territory.
What Levin said was right on the mark, and Bennett’s primary message was correct too...The Republican Party is not the Dem Party.