Actually, no. She said nothing about foreign policy. Also didn’t touch on social issues other than illegal immigration. Lots of room for disagreement there. If she wants a representative in DC who supports the views she mentioned, there’s Ron Paul – but there may well be important unmentioned issues where she doesn’t see eye to eye with him.

How so? You mean it isn’t really written?

Or maybe that there really isn’t a “Janet Contreras”? Who cares?

Some of the early founding fathers wrote anonymously as well. Would that change the validity of the thoughts?

So just exactly _WHAT_ in that letter do you disagree with?

Forget who the author is supposed to be…do you agree with the principles set forth or not?

I listened to the radio interview with her yesterday. (The transcript is linked in the post.)

She sounded quite “real” to me.

What evidence do you have that indicates that the letter is a hoax?

SJR

I mostly wanted to be convinced that he was the “real deal” I suspected that he was. He was that and more. Beck once again proves the Ronald Reagan theory of the “power of being under estimated.”

But then, “common sense” should alert most of us to the fact that a kid who loses a mother to suicide at the age of 13, a brother’s death, and a rehabilitated/recovering drug and alcohol once addicted isn’t going to be “your average man.”

Glenn Beck has much to teach America, and most of it isn’t about politics (although right now, we really need his voice in the political arena). He is the epitome of the “power behind pain and brokeness” , and the scriptual verse of “Wise men will be made fools.” Only in humility, not Ivy League degrees, can any of us every know God’s Wisdom (which BTW, is now pretty much void within our political elected). Humility starts with human relationships built on trust and truth (another major deficit among our elected).

One of the many great paradoxes of life is that it’s often our “pain and suffering” that is necessary for us chisel away our egos to find our humility, which simply put, is “truth”, about ourselves and the way we view the world.

To prove my point, for all the Glenn Beck haters, is it his “message” , the way he “presents” it, or his “lack of a college degree***” that repulses you? Whatever you answer, IF what he teaches is true, (as of now he’s been right on just about everything he’s called), it’s all about your ego.

I wonder how many stuck in upside mortages are now sorry they didn’t listen to Glenn 2 years ago?

*** For clarity, I’m not against “education”, just “untruthful misleading advocacy education” taught at most of the major universities. I often say the only thing worse than “a lack of education is a misleading education.”

As for the Ivies, I don’t hate them either, only many of their “agendas.” The best defense against a “wrongful Ivy education” is common sense,good parenting, and an already “truthful view” of the world. I only bring it up so often because like Obama, our culture is “obcessed” with “elite education”, which we can now objectively see from our own train wreck in the WH, is “not” the end all. That said, good folks can still emerge from American Ivies, it just isn’t easy, but it does take “character”; best not to “leave home without it.”

Everywhere I read of people who want to “re-brand” or “re-build” the Republican party, mostly the state controlled media who want to re-build it even further to the left. Meanwhile, the alternative, so called conservative media blast the Libertarian party as “loons” and “crackpots.”

Well IMHO it makes more sense for common sense Constitutionalists to take over and re-shape the smaller, more ideologically driven Libertarian party than the bloated “what ever it takes to win,” “sacrifice free market values to save the free market,” Republican party.

Leave religion and legislated morality out of it, add a healthy dose of “Don’t Tread on Me” defense strength to the Libertarian party and we have a working instrument of change. The Republicans have proven every time they’ve been in power that they are inadequate. Remember, the first amnesty for illegals was under Regan.

Great find Aye. I was trying to turn my Colorado daughter on to Glenn while she was with me in MO. Although she’s conservative, she’s a bit straight laced and can’t get past his facial expressions. I love him, she’ll eventually get it, I’ll hook her with his book.

BTW, our Wal-Mart is selling his book for $8.97, Wal-Mart online, $6.00+, they know it’s going to be a good sell. Wonder if he knows.

Let the new American revolution begin. Bad politicians must be removed from office. Shortsighted and misguided legislation must be repealed. Organizations at odds with our principles must be marginalized and their leaders ridiculed. The silent majority will be silent no more.