I believe this comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of historic workings of the American political system which thrives with a two-party arrangement and flounders when third-party groups like Ross Perot or the Libertarians emerge. With the great historical exception of the demise of the Whigs over slavery, the third party movement invariably commits the party it wants to reform to electoral oblivion and assures the dominance of the party most distant from it. In this process the splinter movement either declines into oblivion or is absorbed in one of the two dominant parties.
I suspect Glenn Beck wants to see the destruction of both political parties and the emergence of his worldview as the dominant philosophy. Whether or not that is Glenn Beck's intention, the effect of his chronic "plague on both your houses" approach will be the same if he gets his way.
Glenn Beck is essentially saying that there is no difference between Obama, Hillary or McCain because there is no difference to him between Republicans and Democrats.
I concede that this is a huge leap from a fragment of the video which is available to us. It will be interesting to see the rest to judge his justification for this preposterous notion that McCain would be worse than Obama. I have posted repeatedly that I admire Glenn Beck's talent and have high hopes for the great service he can do American and even the Republican Party and the conservative movement. He is absolutely the Jeremiah against the very real threat to our Republic and our democracy posed by Barack Obama. There is no other voice right now equal to his. There is a great danger in the man though. One is his psychological stability and the other is his loose cannon, maverick proclivities which may or may not be symptomatic of a kind of megalomania.
