Glenn Beck Rips Republicans in CPAC Show-Stopper

Politics Daily ^ | 2/20/10 | Patricia Murphy

[woofie]

Glenn Beck, the Fox News personality and chalkboard scrawling libertarian hero, gave the marquee speech Saturday night at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

Swapping out a teleprompter for his famous chalkboard, Glenn Beck wowed the faithful with an hour-long presentation that defended conservatism, praised the Founding Fathers and lampooned Washington, D.C. as an addict in need of immediate treatment. He looked to history to predict that without an immediate course correction and reduction of the federal budget deficit, America is headed for "an economic holocaust." Beck began by praising Ronald Reagan, whose famous campaign ad "Morning in America" envisioned America's best days as still being ahead of it. "It is still morning in America," Beck said. "It just happens to be kind of a head-pounding, hung-over, vomiting for four hours kind of morning in America. And it's shaping up to be kind of a nasty day, but it is still morning in America."

Beck blamed Washington politicians for the country's poor condition, and accused both parties of growing the size of government, spending beyond the country's means, tolerating corruption, and embracing an array of liberal policy prescriptions that he equated with a cancer in American society.

Republicans, he said, are just as guilty as Democrats. "It's not enough just to not suck as much as the other side," he said. "The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. I have not heard people in the Republican Party admit they have a problem and when I did hear them say they have a problem, I don't know if I believed them."

The Republicans' problem, he said, is the same as Democrats' problem-- an addiction to spending, a willingness to place the judgment of the government ahead of the rights of individuals,

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Sure the GOP has its fair share of RINOS and turncoats, but Beck cannot indict the entire GOP / all Republicans for what has happened; moreover put the GOP on par with the Democrats.

That bothered me also. This was from Gateway Pundits. seems to be on target. IMO:

---I appreciate several of the things Beck says but personally I hate it when he constantly beats up on the GOP.

I do wish he would recognize that not one single House Republican voted for the gigantic Stimulus Bill, the record Omnibus Bill, and the Son of Stimulus Bill in 2009. And, only 5 voted for the democrat’s business-busting cap-and-tax bill and only one voted for Obamacare. (Jim Hoft)---

[NamVet71MP]

The best freerepublic post that I’ve ever read. Thank you!

I don’t think that America will be ‘deprogrammed’ in my lifetime... but, if more of us take care of ALL our personal problems without any help from the PTB it might help end the reign of the baby-boomers and allow the next generation to get back on track. That’ll be the real next “Morning in America”.

[Bellflower]

if everyone gets off their keisters and votes in the primaries we can effect an earthquake in this country.... but we are a two-party system, the sooner people realize this and realize the way to change things is the primary, not voting third party, the sooner we back off the cliff to socialism.

CLOSE THE PRIMARIES!!! CLOSE THE PRIMARIES!!! CLOSE THE PRIMARIES!!!

Please everyone pray, work and close the primaries!!! Don't let Dems cross over and decide who we will run!!!