They still don't get it
Posted: February 22nd, 2010, 5:25 am
I watched about 15 minutes of Glenn Beck's impassioned speech to CPAC this weekend. I was flabbergasted that he said what he said, and couldn't decide if the applause was genuine or just being polite. But, what he said needed saying, and it should ring, ring, ring until America sheds incumbents and tries in earnest to restore liberty to people.
Bill Bennett criticized Beck's speech as the wrong approach, and defended incumbents such as Mike Pence. Bennett cast off Beck's observations and said simply there is a "difference" between the parties and that Beck is not respecting those incumbents who are trying to do right. Whatever, Bill.
Dick Armey says that Republicans who align themselves with "tea party" folks are "barking up the wrong tree" since, as he put it, every one of them he meets starts what they say with "I am my own man" or "I am my own woman." Did you get that? Armey wants us all to be serfs to the Federal Government, and thinks it a problem that people think independently and not in lock-step with the Republican establishment. Now, the unofficial conservative position is "grow the government".
See, this comes back to what just tears me up about getting rid of Obama's plans for us. There is NO alternative to big government. It is either Democrat big government or Republican big government. Bennett says they're different. I say difference isn't enough.
Now, don't take what I'm about to say in the wrong way, but here goes. I understand Joe Stack. I can see where a man can be so overrun by the government that he puts his feet down on principle and says, "This is where I stand and fall." While what he did was abhorrent, his reasons for getting to that point illustrate that we want to be FREE FROM GOVERNMENT. Government does not secure our liberty.
I hope, but don't know that I should expect anything significant, that people get madder and madder and madder at our government. I hope the anger turns into full blown revolt. In my view, the government that hinders liberty and personal choices regarding property and wealth and the ultimate matters of life is a usurper and forceful resistance to it is wholly justified. That's exactly what happened 240 years ago. Only now our "kings" have been selected by us to do us harm instead of coming into power by means of monarchy and inflicting harm.
Bill Bennett criticized Beck's speech as the wrong approach, and defended incumbents such as Mike Pence. Bennett cast off Beck's observations and said simply there is a "difference" between the parties and that Beck is not respecting those incumbents who are trying to do right. Whatever, Bill.
Dick Armey says that Republicans who align themselves with "tea party" folks are "barking up the wrong tree" since, as he put it, every one of them he meets starts what they say with "I am my own man" or "I am my own woman." Did you get that? Armey wants us all to be serfs to the Federal Government, and thinks it a problem that people think independently and not in lock-step with the Republican establishment. Now, the unofficial conservative position is "grow the government".
See, this comes back to what just tears me up about getting rid of Obama's plans for us. There is NO alternative to big government. It is either Democrat big government or Republican big government. Bennett says they're different. I say difference isn't enough.
Now, don't take what I'm about to say in the wrong way, but here goes. I understand Joe Stack. I can see where a man can be so overrun by the government that he puts his feet down on principle and says, "This is where I stand and fall." While what he did was abhorrent, his reasons for getting to that point illustrate that we want to be FREE FROM GOVERNMENT. Government does not secure our liberty.
I hope, but don't know that I should expect anything significant, that people get madder and madder and madder at our government. I hope the anger turns into full blown revolt. In my view, the government that hinders liberty and personal choices regarding property and wealth and the ultimate matters of life is a usurper and forceful resistance to it is wholly justified. That's exactly what happened 240 years ago. Only now our "kings" have been selected by us to do us harm instead of coming into power by means of monarchy and inflicting harm.
