Bill Bennett likes Glenn Beck, but was not a fan of Glenn Beck’s CPAC speech. It appears to me Mr. Bennett is criticizing Glenn Beck with blinders on.

[F]or him to continue to say that he does not hear the Republican party admit its failings or problems is to ignore some of the loudest and brightest lights in the party. From Jim DeMint to Tom Coburn to Mike Pence to Paul Ryan, any number of Republicans have admitted the excesses of the party and done constructive and serious work to correct them and find and promote solutions. Even John McCain has said again and again that “the Republican party lost its way.” These leaders, and many others, have been offering real proposals, not ill-informed muttering diatribes that can’t distinguish between conservative and liberal, free enterprise and controlled markets, or night and day. Does Glenn truly believe there is no difference between a Tom Coburn, for example, and a Harry Reid or a Charles Schumer or a Barbara Boxer? Between a Paul Ryan or Michele Bachmann and a Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank?

To say the GOP and the Democrats are no different, to say the GOP needs to hit a recovery-program-type bottom and hang its head in remorse, is to delay our own country’s recovery from the problems the Democratic left is inflicting. The stakes are too important to go through that kind of exercise, which will ultimately go nowhere anyway — because it’s already happened.

Glenn Beck has never said there wasn’t a difference between a Tom Coburn and Harry Reid, or a Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi! The point of Glenn Beck’s CPAC speech is when it comes to spending there’s not a whole lot of difference! One party wants to tax and spend while the other party wants to spend!

The leaders of the Republican party are guilty of blurring the lines of distinction. Progressivism has infiltrated the Republican party which has led to the current state of the Republican party. Take for example the leaders of the Republican party endorsement of Dede Scozzafava and Charlie Crist; rather than endorsing the conservative candidates the leaders have chosen to endorse “big government” people.

As much as I admire Bill Bennett he needs to take the blinders off. The Republican party needs to come out and admit “We have a problem!”

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