Posted on 02/20/2010 8:53:41 PM PST by 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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We are in agreement tonight!
Glenn’s speech, which he wrote either last night or sometime today, was a masterpiece and it wasn’t really a speech. He had notes and that’s what made it great. Glenn knew exactly what he wanted to say and precisely how he wanted to deliver his message with the utmost effect.
I thought he was at his best.
Would be very hard to run the Country according to the Constitution. Too many deals have been cut to subvert it, and Conservatives must take those into account. They are fact. However, Senator Le Mieix (?) of Florida has asserted that we could get back on track IF we could just get back to the spending level of 2007. The basic thing is to take Tom Coburn’s advise and just end earmarks for a year. The problem is that congress critters vote against a bill and then still accept the loot. Gotta serve my constituents? Yeah, contributers.
NOT EVERY REPUBLICAN FROM 2000-2006 deserves the sanctimonious ire of the holier-than-thou, most revered and reverend, Glenn Beck. Moreover, the GOP did not have supermajorities from '00-'06. A fact Beck conveniently forgets amid his clown antics.
I told a Republican fundraiser recently that if all their candidates pledged to govern every vote by its compliance with the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, then I might support them financially. Give me a slate of nominees all of whom are like Michelle Bachman and Duncan Hunter, and I will be enthusiastic. Otherwise, nothing from me.
No way. He once spotted Soros dining in the same restuarant, but he thinks Soros is evil and I can’t imagine those two would ever dine together. I’ve tried to think of who his dinner companion might have been, considering all the wealthy men who appear on Fox Business Channel and then it occured to me it could have been Rupert Murdoch.
“He did not state who it was, but from questions he asked of the man, it must have been George Soros”
I heard Beck describe that and heard nothing to indicate from their conversation that it was Soros. Perhaps you can find a transcript.
I agree. With appologies to Ronaldus Magnus, great speeches\speakers, don’t need telepromoters. They already know what they believe and what they want to say.
I actually thought he gave a very good speech because he went into history and the constitution, which IMHO is very important right now, and IMHO both parties really do deserve a slap down right now... I don’t know how much Beck goes along with Paul...
Love the way you put that. It speaks to something that is very, very true.
It's not appropriate to remain civil and calm, while the very foundations of your whole way of life are being ripped asunder.
We all need to exercise some outrage at what the Democrats are doing to our country. A whole lot of outrage would be even better.
Exactly, as JD pointed out tonight at the Lincoln Day Dinner... McCain claims to be such a puritan when it comes to pork and then votes for TARP which contained $150 BILLION in pork.. and how many other Republicans voted for that bill and loaded it down with their own pork?
Let me add to your excellent comments, an overlooked fact that Glenn also ignores. Republicans did go hog-wild with spending and earmarks, but democrats took control in ‘06 and they loaded-up defense bills and the bills for the wars that President Bush sorely needed so that he was stuck accepting them just to keep the troops funded.
As I recall he was not a huge Romney fan in 2008... so you sarcasm that he would automatically support Romney because he is a mormon is uncalled for.
i think you're pretty on point here.
I don't really watch or listen to Beck much, but what I've seen (mostly links to vids from FR). leads me to believe he is definitely not crazy. A lot of what you're reading here is people who didn't watch the speech in question, so they are making comments out of ignorance. Something I've also noticed is that when people do listen to what is actually being said, it actually fires up a bit of cognitive dissonance in their brain, because they've been fed lies their whole lives. When you hear the truth, after hearing nothing but lies, it makes people uncomfortable.
A case in point: How can anyone with a brain not see what they do to us every single day with social security, and not get upset at the absolute blatant lies that are constantly spread by both parties. Neither side is willing to admit the obvious: that it is an absolutely unsustainable ponzi scheme, that is utterly unsupportable. All one has to look at are simple demographics. At best, it is just another form of welfare, that once again is completely unsustainable. Yet, all we hear from even allegedly "conservative" politicians is crap about tinkering around the edges to "save" it. The only way to "save" it from a fiscal perspective would be to raise the retirement age to 90. Possibly more.
Too many people have been fed the socialist dogma for so long, that they are completely unable to think in any other terms.
Which is why those of us who have the conviction to get off the fence and register with a party — like the Republican Party — have to work to clean up their party and right now MY party, the Republican Party, is a shiftless finger in the wind party.... Independents are not a party.
Yes, and I watch Glenn Beck’s program daily, so I’ve seen a lot of what he said in his speech today, which is not to take away from its grandness, but only to agree with you, that he knows his stuff and he truly believes what he says and it’s well reseached too. Like he stated, he’s a self-taught man, and I have only admiration for him for continuing to read and research American history.
Now that is one tough assignment.
Last Democrat that I had any respect for was Zell Miller, back in 2004. I have no idea what his actual voting record was like, but he sure told it like it was at the Republican National Convention that year, didn't he?
I can't think of a single Democrat that I wouldn't throw out of office today, given the chance.
Crazy like a Fox dude...
What I find interesting is some of the complainers are not even Republicans, but Indies or Libertarians... and everyone seems to forget Beck is a Libertarian — which pains me, since I like him for the most part.. and Hannity is a registered conservative — which is a little strange to me, but whatever floats his boat, I’d rather see us work to move the GOP back to fiscal conservatism.
You all miss the main point and it isn’t to keep the people currently running the GOP but to change the GOP “leaders” through the nations primaries... 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.
You said: “...the bills for the wars that President Bush sorely needed so that he was stuck accepting them just to keep the troops funded.”
Wow. Read like a line from a DU post. Quality logic. I suppose we shouldn’t have liberated the concentration camps in WWII either, as that was an unnecessary cost in terms of spending and the blood of servicemen.
Let Glenn Beck create the conservative schism he wants (as it will enable him to keep peddling his books for another 4 years of the Obamagic.)
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