Closet Liberals are jumping all over Glenn Beck and trying to tell us that the GOP could do better without him.

Over at the Obama Apologetic, Obama Shrill Michael Cohen:

“Watching Fox News’ new sensation Glenn Beck is not for the faint of heart. It is a disquieting entree into the feverish mind of a conspiracy theorist who believes, among other things, that the government wants to remotely control our thermostats, that the relaxing of the ban on stem cell research — as well as efforts to prevent global warming — is reminiscent of Nazism, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency might be setting up concentration camps [Slightly off here - Beck actually semi-debunked that story. – ed.] and, finally, that the country is on the path to socialism or possibly fascism but definitely some “-ism” that should be avoided.

Yet for all of his conspiracy-addled and occasionally tear-filled declarations, Beck has become the new darling of the conservative right. His show is a regular stomping ground for Republican congressmen and party pooh-bahs like Karl Rove, Sarah Palin and Michael Steele, and his ratings rival those of Fox stalwarts Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. According to The New York Times, Beck has become “one of the most powerful media voices for the nation’s conservative, populist anger.”

Populist agitators such as Beck are nothing new, particularly in times of economic instability — and they aren’t restricted to the right. During the Bush years, liberal anger over the administration’s policies bred bizarre conspiracy theories of its own, like accusations that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job.

However, Beck’s paranoid style is seeping into the discourse of conservative politics, which should be of concern to Republicans. The charge that President Barack Obama is a socialist, first raised in the 2008 campaign, has become a de rigueur epithet heard not only on talk radio but in the halls of Congress. Calls by China to consider replacing the dollar as the global reserve currency have been met by bizarre warnings from congressional Republicans that the Obama administration wants to scrap the greenback for a new global currency. Thirty-four House Republicans have even signed on to a constitutional amendment that would prevent this from occurring, though no such proposal is being considered.”

Glenn Beck is a radio and TV host and really nothing more than entertainment to us true Republicans. Yet he does provide some value. First, Obama IS instituting a socialist government in America. Notice how it’s only the liberal media that tries – unsuccessfully – to argue the point.

But more than this is the still untrue mantra that the GOP is trying to “rebuild”, to which I’ve told you – as a member of the GOP in liberal-laden South Florida – is simply not true.

Remember, we won five of the last eight Presidential elections, and held congress for 14 of the last 17 years. Hardly a “wilderness experience” that folks like Cohen would like us to believe. Beck does provide one very good component for us though – anger and action.

The other thing that – and this is important – is that Beck and Rush and Hannity and Levin draw such huge audiences is that there are that many listeners who are just as fired up as they are. This isn’t a rebuild, it’s a call to arms, and that is what is scaring the hell of of liberals.

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