Posted on 02/21/2010 1:14:06 PM PST by Sergeant Tim
I was invited to be the opening speaker at Saturday's CPAC session. I had accepted but then, to my amazement, I learned that the John Birch Society would be one of many co-sponsors. This takes the big-tent idea many steps too far for me. So, I withdrew. Apparently, others were not so moved. That's fine. But it wasn't for me. Bill Buckley and Barry Goldwater, among others, chased the Birchers from the movement decades ago. And they're not a part of the movement. So, to give them a booth at CPAC was boneheaded.
I want to commend Bill Bennett for his wise piece this morning on the Corner. I agree with him.
I have no idea what philosophy Glenn Beck is promoting. And neither does he. It's incoherent. One day it's populist, the next it's libertarian bordering on anarchy, next it's conservative but not really, etc. And to what end? I believe he has announced that he is no longer going to endorse candidates because our problems are bigger than politics. Well, of course, our problems are not easily dissected into categories, but to reject politics is to reject the manner in which we try to organize ourselves. This is as old as Plato and Aristotle. Why would conservatives choose to surrender the political battlefield to our adversaries -- who are trashing this society -- when we must retake it in order to preserve our society? Philosophy, politics, culture, family, etc., are all of one. Edmund Burke, among others, wrote about it extensively, and far better that I possibly can. But all elements of the civil society require our defense. Besides, why preach such a strategy when conservatism is on the rise and the GOP is acting more responsibly?
Moreover, when he does discuss politics, which, ironically, is often, how can he claim today that there is no difference between the two parties when, but for the Republicans in Congress, government-run health care, cap-and-trade, card check, and a long list of other disastrous policies would already be law? The GOP is becoming more conservative thanks to the grass-roots movement and a political uprising across the country, which has even reached into New Jersey and Massachusetts. Why keep pretending otherwise? My only conclusion is that he is promoting a third party or some third way, which is counter-productive to defeating Obama and the Democrat Congress. These are perilous times and this kind of an approach will keep the statists in power for decades.
And what of his flirtations with Ron Paul's lunacy respecting America's supposed provocations with her enemies, including al-Qaeda? Why should such a fatal defect in thinking be ignored? Do we conservatives agree with this?
Finally, Beck is fond of congratulating himself for being the only or the first host to criticize George Bush's spending. This is demonstrably false. I not only attacked his spending, but the creation of the Homeland Security Department, the prescription drug add-on for Medicare, his "moderate" tax cuts, as well as his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, "comprehensive immigration reform," and so forth. And I was not alone -- Rush and Sean did the same, for example. And as someone who fought liberal Republicans in the trenches when campaigning for Reagan in 1976 and 1980, I don't need lectures from Beck, who was nowhere to be found, about big-spending Republicans. But this is not about me, or Beck, or Beck's past drunkenness (which he endlessly wears as some kind of badge of honor). It is about preserving our society for our children and grandchildren. Beck spent precious little time aiming fire at Obama-Pelosi-Reid in his speech, and it is they who are destroying our country.
On as a positive note, I am personally happy to see that Beck has cleaned up his public act -- as best I can tell, no more boiling fake frogs on TV or pretending to pour gasoline on someone -- and the rest of it. But I do think his speech, which contained nuggets of truth heard before and read elsewhere, including on Rush's show and in my book and many other books, may have distracted from some of the more compelling and coherent speeches at the event, including Marco Rubio's superb speech. I fear the media will see to this. I hope not.
So you have never listened to Limbaugh, who incase you didn’t know has been on the radio for more than 20 years.
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Nah, she is just in love with Beck for purely religious reasons. ;)
so many on this thread want to equate Beck and his education with not being worthy of “The Great One”.
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It has nothing to do with his education but his presentation.
It is similar to a college class:
Rush is the Dean
Levin the Professor
Coulter and Hannity the star students
And Beck is the class clown.
because according to beck, anyone that replaces them will be 'just as bad' - a real becktard (or is it beck goon) would know that their leader says everyone sucks
who would beck want to replace them?
Yes, indeedy. I completely agree. He wanted her to say go third party. And he didn't get it. You're dead on right there, presently and ohioWfan.
Hmmm, okay maybe I was a little strong, you may not be lying, but you are mistaken, the Savage anti-Levin bunch as you call them were not pinged to this thread because there is no such pinglist. There's a Savage pinglist but that one was not pinged, but even if it had pls note that just because one listens to Savage does not automatically make them anti-Levin. I have no problems with facts as long as they reflect 'what is the truth'.
Or for better words, RINOs.
What Temple was it and when was it deticated?
Oakland
The group are mostly one in the same people
your post here should be forwarded to Levin
Yep. I found that out about the Mormon religion as well.
LOL! There you go again, I'm on both pinglists and they are an entirely different group of folks, at best there is only 2 maybe 3 of us that are on both pinglists, so again you are not being 'factual'.
commented before i saw that there were 800+ posts, already.
woops.
No one with a brain does that, which rules out liberals.
Well, plus you, that makes three or four. Just sayin. LOL!
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