Add another who would have approached the CPAC keynote address differently…
This would have been, in my estimation, an occasion to keep building these people up, to keep inspiring them, the people who are making this happen. Because the people who are making it happen are us, all of you: The average, ordinary people doing extraordinary things, finally refusing to put up with this. You have taken the lead. I would have simply urged you to keep going and do it with a big smile on your face because we can win this and we can stop this. You know, I always try to give uplifting speeches: Inspirational, uplifting, positive speeches. I tell people they’re capable of more than they think they are and praise them when they deserve it. This is a huge, huge ongoing effort to take back the country. Nobody thought we stood a chance a year ago. Less than a year or in a year, we’re having more success than anybody a year ago dreamed.
This is the Conservative Political Action Committee. It’s not some group of Libertarians. I would have defended conservatism and I would have promoted conservatism and I would have reminded people conservatism is the solution. Conservatism is the answer for this country’s problems and challenges that we face. Nobody’s out there defending bad Republican policies.
The point at this stage is to support the conservatives in and outside public office. I certainly would not have ignored the other team on the field, the Democrats. They’re the only reason we’re in this mess. The Democrat Party is the only reason we are threatened with the things we’re threatened with. The Democrat Party. Solely. They own it.
Thanks, Rush, for validating my earlier position.
Again, if Glenn Beck is going to mostly side with the Republicans, then show some guts and be one. Not stand on the sidelines, pointing at both sides while claiming to be ‘looking out for the folks’ like another holier-than-thou, fence straddler we know.
“The Democrat Party is the only reason we are threatened with the things we’re threatened with. The Democrat Party. Solely. They own it.”
Really?? So McCain DIDN’T vote for TARP, the auto bailout, AIG’s bailout, and the mortgage bailout? Bush didn’t give us the first bailout (which was a very bad idea)
The only way to get over the problem it to admit that you have a problem. As long as Steel, McCain, and Limbaugh keeps trying to push the “It’s all the democrats fault” the longer I will keep NOT giving them money.
Beck did defend conservative values, he just didn’t cheer lead for the Republicans. It’s not enough to have an R by your name. You actually have to stand for conservative values and I don’t see the RNC doing that at all (Dede Scozzafava anyone)
I’d say Beck (and his chalkboard) got a rather large applause. The crowd seemed to love him. Isn’t that kinda what it’s about? How are conservative ideas different than libertarian ideas? Conservative likes more government than libertarians? Why, because Conservatives simply think they can do better with big government that the Democrats have done?
The Democrats have constantly pushed the idea that the government can fix everything and should fix everything. The Democrats had bailouts, (created the housing bust by forcing banks to loan to people who couldn’t pay it back), promoted bigger bigger government long before Bush thought it was cool. The only “no government restriction” the Democrats have ever promoted was Roe v. Wade.
If Rush gave conservatism a “kick in the pants to get it going” then Glenn “grabbed it’s shoulders and pointed it in the right direction”.
If Scott Brown’s recent actions haven’t given anyone pause to supporting whatever candidate the Republicans push forward, then I guess nothing will…
“How are conservative ideas different than libertarian ideas?”
According to Ann Coulter, the libertarian utopia will be reached when libertarians can use all the drugs they want and conservatives won’t have to pay the price. Or some such thing.
I’ve met quite a few libertarians, but most of them have been “I got mine/you get yours” variety who went to public schools, state colleges, and got small business loans through taxpayer-funded programs. But now they want people to fend for themselves. My personal favorites were 1) the guy who said that he wants to have the freedom to fire any of his female employees who get pregnant, since “It’s their own damn fault for getting married and having kids” and 2) the guy who hates paying taxes for roads he doesn’t use (although he uses a multimillion-dollar gap bridge that isn’t used by a lot of people but cuts four hours off his trip to his vacation home).
The libertarian survivalists have been some of the nicest and the strangest. One of my friends bought a house from a family that moved to Montana. She still can’t figure out what they kept in the bolt-locked root cellar BELOW the cellar under a basement built under a barn.