Posted on 02/24/2010 4:46:31 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
I like Beck. He is on the right side. I just wish he would stop bashing Republicans. He gives fodder to the media. We are winning public opinion. But Beck just wants everyone to be the perfect conservative. Nothing wrong with that. We would all love for the country to suddenly make a hard right turn but they aren’t going to do that. We have to win in steps. Just like the left slowly pulled the country left, we have to pull it back to the right. But right now our main goal should be getting rid of the destructive democrats. Then we can work on our goals.
Don’t think Limbaugh would qualify as a circling shark.
Rush and Bill B are very protective of the party, fearing a splinter 3rd party which spells near-certain defeat for us.
I actually don’t think there’s an argument. Beck sees the Republican Party as half empty, Bill, Rush (and me) see the Republican Party as half full. They’ve gotten the message quite well, I suspect.
I can still hear Tom Delay in ‘06 saying, “we’ve looked and just can’t find any place to cut the budget”.
I see that Michelle Malkin is now echoing what Beck said. I guess she’ll have to be destroyed as well. [/sarc]
Good analysis. I am sick to death of the RINOs. I call our state GOP every week and remind them that I will only send $ when they give us good conservatives and I will never again vote for a RINO. I hope they are listening.
“Both Bennett and Limbaugh misread Beck’s point.”
No kidding. Unfortunately, IMO, Bennett and Limbaugh are concerned about biting the hand that feeds them. Beck, on the other hand, doesn’t give a rat’s patoot about that kind of thing. Isn’t that obvious?!!!
Rush, of course, is our hero and always will be but he has to be just a little concerned that Beck will usurp some of his power.
Bennett - I lost a lot of respect him due to the gambling fiasco - like throwing $2 million away on a gambling addiction didn’t hurt his family!!!!!!!!!!
That’s what I like about Beck so much . . . his honesty and openness.
I’ve long suspected Beck goes out of his way to position himself outside of any party to deflect criticism of him as a partisan hack. Bashing Pubbies achieves that for him and
I also think its time to stop. We’ll need adult Pubbies to save this day and we’ll need lots of ‘em.
that’s not to say I wouldn’t support a conservative dem....but there don’t appear to be any...at least in the JFK mold of the last century.
Beck is such a newbie. Republicans got the message...I dunno...before I was born. The battle against liberal Republicans has been going on forever. Instead of whining there has been no final victory (victory is always elusive, nothing is ever settled) Beck could give credit to those who were fighting when he was doing nothing.
Until he starts paying me off he'll only get the ordinary "sound bytes" I provide him regularly on the threads at FreeRepublic.
And he does lift those "sound bytes" ~ as does Limbaugh, and sometimes Levin (although he's got mostly his own stuff, heh, heh), and most assuredly Dick Morris.
In fact, Dick has read so much of my stuff, and lifted it for his books, that I think I've actually changed his mind regarding politics.
What's missing in Beck is a "smoothness filter" ~ he does need the little guy at the other end of the earpiece feeding him factoids ~ just like Rush, or any other commenter who is digging deeply into political theory and practical politics.
As far as the Tea Party Movement is concerned, there are lot of it's primary movers right here at FR ~ which is good.
What is bad is this writer using Obama-speak. Did you catch that "call out Republicans" bit? Conservatives don't use the language of the class enemy unless they intend to take it over for themselves. Neither do Republicans. On the other hand, Democrats, and most certainly their tag-along-go-along Independent cadre start slurping on the Party Line language almost immediately.
The "call out" cr*p started with the Obamistas. It's not that they invented the term ~ I've heard it many times before ~ but they began using it in a peculiar way ~ always with the implication that the target is elementally evil and knows it.
There, I've done it ~ provided a definition to the Democrat party-line terminology that we can use.
Rather than adopting it's use, we should challenge their "call outs" by treating them as gross insults, and little more than the grunts of street thugs.
Ping !
This thread is good. Beck’s speech, I feel, Should have awakened us to what the GOP has been doing (or ... NOT doing). The GOP stands in the correct place, but it is weak, and blows in the slightest wind. This is not new. The moment socialist ideas came into play, our GOP should have Slammed fists on the tables - yelled - SCREAMED out that it was wrong.
I feel that while there are good people on the GOP in DC right now, not one of them is as dedicated to the Constitution as they swore they were. Not one of them is willing to die for it anymore. Ex-soldiers there may have been, people who at one time or another had put their life on the line for it... But not anymore. They meekly “ask” for recognition.
Civil is one thing. A push-over limp-wrist is another. Liberals and Democrats have betrayed the country. RINOs just let us down.
I agree. Many people do that. They want to be liked. They want to appear to be above it all. O'Reilly pulls the same schtick. Its much more common on the left. I see it in New England all the time. Half the people in my town are too gutless to take sides. The pretend to be "independent". But none, or very few of them, are. Most are Democrats.
Nothing wrong with jobs these days ~ NOTHING!
Back is an equal opportunity basher. The republicans deserve bashing almost as much as the democRATS. “Read my lips”
This is it in a nutshell - I think this is the point Beck is trying to make. Like Reagan said, "Trust, but verify".
“I like Beck. He is on the right side. I just wish he would stop bashing Republicans. He gives fodder to the media.”
Nail+Head
You Hit it.
The great thing about Beck is he is reaching a demographic not touched by Rush, Levine, Hannity, and the rest. And that is Women, young voters, blacks and independents. But what good will it do if he turns them off to the Republicans as well?
Beck, and this goes for the Tea Party movement as well, should take the “Build It and They Will Come” approach to reaching out to the GOP, Not build a seperate house and fight them until they change.
“Both Bennett and Limbaugh misread Beck’s point. Beck clearly articulated the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. His analysis suggests a difference insufficient to satisfy principled conservatives. Beck is calling for more than rhetoric, more than speeches from individual politicians. Beck is looking for broad and consistent action. He is looking for Republicans at large to embrace principle over politics.Good post.”
Walter, you nailed it. Beck is right.
I respect Rush, but he is wrong on this one, as is Shawn and Mark Levin. Shawn I can’t stand to listen to anymore, but I catch Mark every night on the way home and I’m very disappointed that he doesn’t seem to get Beck’s point.
I don’t post much, so I’m going to change course. The MOST critical issue of all is the homosexual issue. Hopefully it was an aberration at CPAC and we will push back hard enough to get them back in the closet. It is our Waterloo as a nation. If we lose this battle and accept the homosexual lifestyle as normal, then we’ll just accelerate the path to national destruction.
“I like Beck. He is on the right side. I just wish he would stop bashing Republicans. He gives fodder to the media. We are winning public opinion. But Beck just wants everyone to be the perfect conservative. Nothing wrong with that. We would all love for the country to suddenly make a hard right turn but they aren’t going to do that. We have to win in steps. Just like the left slowly pulled the country left, we have to pull it back to the right. But right now our main goal should be getting rid of the destructive democrats. Then we can work on our goals.”
What steps did the Republicans take to create smaller government when they were in power from 2000-2006?
Good piece. As I’ve said before, we’ve been disgusted with the GOP for years. Spending, and earmarks, when they controlled both houses ought to let us know there is something fundamentally wrong with much of their thinking.
I thought Beck’s CPAC message was right on, and was glad somebody finally had the cajones to say it!
Ann Coulter shoulda been da Keynote speaker!
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