no specific examples. Your generic and unspecific rant makes me wonder if you’re a Kos Kiddie. All name-calling all the time. No reasoned argument backing it up.

Grow up.

the only thing I can think of in response is:

HE NEVER CLAIMED TO BE A CONSERVATIVE.

Which makes your little rant seem even stupider than it already was.

Beck is on the cutting edge of bringing ideas, backed by facts to light. You obviously don’t like it when they impugn ‘conservatives’ like mccain.
Beck is standing on founding principles which BOTH parties have deviated from – R’s by omission, D’s by commission. He points it out with humor, intelligence, facts, and passion.

Too bad you can’t get past your own hatred of Paul (?!) to see it. Prove YOU’RE a conservative before attacking someone else’s motives.
Hint – if it upsets you so much, just turn it off.

I love him anyway. He’s got me reading history, which I hadn’t done since high school. I’m not sure if he’s a conservative or not, but libertarian isn’t that bad either, to a point.

He’s brave to be bringing all this info to us every day. His radio show just cracks me up, because he can be dead serious one minute and then Stu and Pat just let loose and all bets are off.

You didn’t really give any good reasons for your decision, but quite frankly there are good points to be made by conservatives and libertarians alike.

I’ll keep listening and watching Beck because right now Limbaugh and Beck are the best around. Hannity is starting to annoy me, because he doesn’t let anybody get a word in, he’s kind of like O’Reilly, who in my opinion has become a buffoon.

Glenn Beck is finally delving into historical truths that all Americans must hear and understand. I applaud him and encourage him further in the future.

Jim E.

True conservatives believe in a Conservative foreign policy, not one which involves “Policing of the World”. We also believe in “Free Enterprise” which can only be achieved if The Federal Reserve is abolished.

Those of you who think differently need to read a few Quotes from our founders and understand what Free Enterprise is.

Jim Eckland

…until Beck starts calling for the US military to unilaterally withdraw from the international sphere and close her borders to all incoming and outgoing traffic, he is no Paultard.

you miss the days when the Moral Majority was the big player in the party. You don’t like how Republicans and Conservatives have become focused on liberty. I understand how it feels to feel left out. I have been telling people for four years our party’s future is libertarian-conservatism ala Goldwater-Reagan.

computer generated complaint letters that were all the rage on college campuses a generation ago as a novelty gag.

I am tired of history lessons from a guy that did not even go to college

You mean like Rush Limbaugh? Or Sean Hannity?

I have a lot of gripes about Beck… I am not partial to his sense of humor, for one. I do not subscribe to his “Fire in the Belly” use of emotion in making his arguments for another. But I’m in agreement with his observations on the political landscape even when I disagree with his approach to solutions.

So far, the guy has not simply been right about almost everything, but he’s been right about everything way before it even appeared on Rush’s or Sean’s radar screens.

Your main complaint seems to be that Beck is a rabid capitalist who associates with people you dislike. Given that he exploits no one but himself, I’d say your complaint puts you closer to the fringe libertarian Ron Paul end of the spectrum than Beck.

I want to share some facts with you. These are hidden truths that affect us all. Let’s get down to brass tacks: Glenn Beck deeply believes that he is the ultimate authority on what’s right and what’s wrong. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the truth is very simple: My general thesis is that Beck makes it sound like a richly evocative description of a problem automatically implies the correct solution to that problem. That’s the rankest sort of pretense I’ve ever heard. The reality is that Beck often misuses the word “roentgenographically” to mean something vaguely related to nihilism or egotism or somesuch. Beck’s operatives, realizing that an exact definition is anathema to what they know in their hearts, are usually content to assume that Beck is merely trying to say that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. I’ll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: He makes a living out of interventionism. I call this tactic of his “entrepreneurial interventionism”. Beck and his idolators have indisputably raised entrepreneurial interventionism to a fine art by using it to break the mind and spirit, castrate the character, and kill the career of anyone whose ideas Beck deems to be brain-damaged.

Beck’s statements such as “Elected national governments are not accountable to their own people” indicate that we’re not all looking at the same set of facts. Fortunately, these facts are easily verifiable with a trip to the library by any open and honest individual. I am not fooled by Beck’s insane and eristic rhetoric. I therefore gladly accept the responsibility of notifying others that Beck once tried to convince a bunch of us that truth is merely a social construct. Fortunately, calmer heads prevailed and a number of people informed the rest of the gang that Beck thinks that he has the trappings of deity. However, his push to let down ladders that the churlish, cocky, and stubborn scramble to climb is primarily an effort to retain power and control.

Because of Beck’s obsession with moral relativism, he decries or dismisses capitalism, technology, industrialization, and systems of government borne of Enlightenment ideas about the dignity and freedom of human beings. These are the things that Beck fears because they are wedded to individual initiative and responsibility. Many experts now believe that if he were as bright as he thinks he is, he’d know that one of the great mysteries of modern life is, When he looks in the mirror in the morning, does Beck see more than the featherbrained face of a tyrannical crumbum? This can be answered most easily by stating that Beck refers to a variety of things using the word “epididymodeferential”. Translating this bit of jargon into English isn’t easy. Basically, he’s saying that all any child needs is a big dose of television every day, which we all know is patently absurd. At any rate, I’d like very much to respond to his claim that his viewpoints prevent smallpox. Unfortunately, taking into account Beck’s background, education, and intelligence, I am quite sure that Beck would not be able to understand my response. Hence, let me say simply this: This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Let me therefore state that if anything will free us from the shackles of Beck’s obdurate op-ed pieces, it’s knowledge of the world as it really is. It’s knowledge that it’s best to ignore most of the quotes that he so frequently cites. Beck takes quotes out of context; uses misleading, irrelevant, and out-of-date quotes; and presents quotes from legitimate authorities used misleadingly to support contentions that they did not intend and that are not true. In short, he wants to get me thrown in jail. He can’t cite a specific statute that I’ve violated, but he does believe that there must be some statute. This tells me that if you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you will surely find that it’s not necessarily difficult to throw down the gauntlet and challenge Beck’s henchmen to call people to their highest and best, not accommodate them at their lowest and least. We can begin simply by urging lawmakers to pass a nonbinding resolution affirming that Beck’s ramblings are attributable to an ignorance born of fear. See? I told you it wasn’t necessarily difficult. We just need to remember that if Beck were to get his hands on the levers of power he’d immediately call evil good and good evil. If you don’t believe me then consider that the main dissensus between me and Beck is that I feel that Beck is like a parrot that makes noises for attention without any kind of clue as to what it is saying. He, on the other hand, contends that one can understand the elements of a scientific theory only by reference to the social condition and personal histories of the scientists involved. In closing, I ask that you swear in the holy sanctuary of your soul that you will never stop replacing today’s chaos and lack of vision with order and a supreme sense of purpose. That’s how I live my life, and that’s how you should consider living yours.

Conservatives believe in ordered liberty, state’s rights and the rule of law, as established by the Founders through convention, our constitutional republic and her supporting documents.

Beck is a little more to the right than most Conservatives.

And, the problem with that is?

Please define, what a “true conservative” is supposed to believe, and if someone is not all three legs of the stool for the conservative cause, but has two legs of the stool, do they still get thrown under you bus?