Good. I'm all for that. If it causes them to compromise conservative positions. But Beck doesn't leave it at that. He took a 'gratuitous" shot at Dick Cheney. He ignored the millions of Republicans who have worked all their lives to get the RINOs out. He used the same line he always uses, the line liberals use when they are cornered: "Everybody does it, Republicans are just as bad". Obviously that isn't true. Rush isn't the same as Keith Olbermann. Dick Cheney is not the same as Joe Biden. Michelle Bachmann isn' the same as Barbara Lee.
There is one party he doesn't do this to: The Libertarian Party. He never has mentioned that Reid is majority speaker today because the LP campaigned against Ensign in 1998. He never has mentioned Reid won by 401 votes that year and the LP candidate received over 6,000. He doesn't mention the LP took $100,000 from the DNC in the 2002 midterms to run ads against a Republican candidate. He doesn't mention the LP joined forces with Greens to contest the 2004 Ohio vote. He doesn't mention MoveOn was holding rallies in support of Ron Paul in 2008.
To Beck, the GOP and DNC are one. Then there are those libertarians and the LP who are untainted by all of it.
I hope Beck response to this OP and the reaction of conservatives to him. I want him to explain why he spent more time on Teddy Roosevelt than FDR. Why he said almost nothing about Reid and Pelosi. Why he didn't say the reason ObamaCare, Cap & Trade and Card Check are not the law of the land today is because Republicans have been fighting them for the last year.
You ae wrong on that one sir. I have heard him many times say he disagrees with several of the "planks" of the LP. He simply aligned himself with the LP because it is the closest party we have that is more committed to smaller government than the other two. He has said he would align himself to the party that lives up to a smaller government ideals rather than ones that give us lip service.
I also must have missed the "gratuitous" attack on Cheney in the speech but I'll go back and review it again.
As far as the LP being responsible for giving us Ried, no the voters are the ultimate failure, but then again Ensign has really showed himself to be committed to his promises, now hasn't he?
The GOP/RNC is the problem, the Democrats are the enemy.
The main reason the GOP doesn’t like the Libertarians, or Goldwater, or Reagan( oh, now that he’s dead, yeah ) is that the party is run by favor seeking, rent seeking, big government loving big debt loving, fiat money loving business that dislike competition and free markets. Democrats have their unions, we have our businesses.
Amen bro.
Socialism is in both parties and Ayn Rand brought out that arrogant progessivism in her writings which no doubt influence Beck’s thinking.
The Paul Movement concerns me and I will not vote for their people.
Sarah Palin did endorse Rand Paul in Kentucky and I am with her on that because he is not a nut like his father’s followers.
The leftists have infiltrated the Libertarian ranks but the GOP is not right because it is not authentically committed to less spending and smaller government.
Thank you again! You have nailed Beck and why his speech was so disgusting.
Beck always ignores Libertarians but to equate Democrats and Republicans was beyond comprehension. The Republicans have done an excellent job this time of sticking together to give the Democrats a hard time in passing these bills, People on here like to attack McConnell but he helped orchestrate delay tactics in the Senate when they had 60 votes against them to pass anything and in the House it should have been clear sailing. Republicans have taken to the airwaves, the House Conference has their own You Tube channel, they put out some of the best policy papers I have seen but yet Beck went after them like Democrats.
Makes me understand where the constant attack on Republicans on here is coming from as well. The comments throw out all incumbents comes right out of the Beck/Libertarian mantra as we have some excellent Republicans in Congress including my two Senators Inhofe and Coburn who are no shrinking violets by any imagination.