Is Beck a republican or a democrat?
Beck is smart in the angle he is Playing. He knows we already have a Rush limbaugh, and Sean Hannity, so he uses a bit of misdirection to prevent himself from being thrown into exactly the same camp.
He likes to pay lip service to true constitutional principles, founding fathers, and a Free Market economy, but has yet to prove he has read original sources, and do anything besides parrot the words.
When he talks about the Constitution, founding fathers, and Capitalism, I'm willing to bet he knows very little about what is actually in the Constitution, couldn't even name all of the "the founding fathers" and has never studied Adam Smith.
He loves to use the catchy words and phrases, but knows nothing of the substance those words represent. All you have to do is read the original sources and its very easy to tell who has studied it, and who is merely paying lip service to topics they have never studied.
