Say Anything Blog

I’m sympathetic to Glenn Beck’s world view.  I’m a pretty libertarian guy myself in a lot of ways.  But Beck himself, over the last year or so, has started to turn me off.  First it was the hysterics.  Then the crying.  And this new “The Plan” thing?

Well, it’s starting to make me think his ego has gotten a bit too large for its own good.

There is much to do, much to learn and time is of the essence. While I will be explaining the entire Plan over the coming weeks and months, I did want to give you a preview of some of the highlights:

- Education is key, and not just for our children. To that end, we will be conducting a series of conventions. These will be full-day experiences where you will be immersed in learning about topics ranging from self-reliance, community organizing, the economy and how to be a political force in your own neighborhood and country. The first one will be in Orlando at UCF Arena on March 27th. You will also be able to vote to have a convention in your region by clicking here.

- I have begun meeting with some of the best minds in the country that believe in limited government, maximum freedom and the values of our Founders. I am developing a 100 year plan. I know that the bipartisan corruption in Washington that has brought us to this brink and it will not be defeated easily. It will require unconventional thinking and a radical plan to restore our nation to the maximum freedoms we were supposed to have been protecting, using only the battlefield of ideas.

- All of the above will culminate in The Plan, a book that will provide specific policies, principles and, most importantly, action steps that each of us can take to play a role in this Refounding.

- On August 28, 2010, I ask you, your family and neighbors to join me at the feet of Abraham Lincoln on the National Mall for the unveiling of The Plan and the birthday of a new national movement to restore our great country.

I’m all for a limited government movement, but this is way too top-down.  I want to be a member of a movement that is effective in limiting government.

I don’t want to join a cult complete with conventions and sporadic capitalization syndrome.

And for all Beck’s blather about not wanting to be a leader, look at what he has planned.  Conventions where you come to be educated by him.  A new book, written by him, that will encompass “The Plan.”  And a launch for that book that coincides with Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I have a dream” speech in both date and location (the Lincoln Memorial)?

Please.

Either Beck is a huckster who is just out to draw attention to himself and his books/shows or, perhaps even worse, he’s a true believer who has bought into his own hype.

Whatever the truth, I’m finding him more and more to be a political sideshow than anything else.