Posted on 04/01/2015 9:25:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
George Will deserves to be bashed as the effete uniparty flack that he is. That said, he has a small point with regards to electoral math. But that point relies on everything staying static, which it rarely does in politics.
What’s changed? First off an intensely unpopular incumbent. After that an intensely uninspiring candidate almost certain to pick up the nomination of the rat faction of the uniparty. Not to mention she bears the last name of a prior president when the idea of dynastic rule is being increasingly opposed. So against this fertile landscape, what does George Will propose? Another intensely uninspiring candidate that bears the same last name as 2 previous presidents.
So I guess we should all feel fortunate to bask in the brilliance of such analytical genius.?
2016 has the potential to be a breakout election similar to 1932 and 1980. We get them about once every 30 to 50 years. The uniparty intensely hates them as they’re rare events that have the potential to challenge their hegemony, if only for a short time.
What does the “F” stand for in “George F. Will”?
Because people like this ass have given in to the Marxists and refuse to make a case against the left,Cruz is making a case And I am with him,the middle my ass,ignorant MORONS is a better description,cowards,who don’t know what they believe.
So go ahead cater to the militant hordes,the country has another chance and with the mentality of the public and a communist media There is very little hope but it’s better to go down fighting than to surrender to this pathetic bunch of milk toast bow tie wearing pussies
Whenever I agree with anything that Will says, I go back and replay the sound bite to make sure that I heard him correctly.
He thinks he is so much smarter than every body else.
“I have given Cruz money twice this week, so I hardly am defending Will in general, but his electoral construct needs to be pondered. We still have much time.”
I don’t agree with Will. Rather than looking at it from a top-down perspective: “What must we do to compete again in Pennsylvania”, what we should be doing (hence my tag line and home page here) is looking from the BOTTOM UP. Roughly 70% (or so) of the voters in PA and that entire area are white - what do we need to get them to vote 65% Republican - and hold enough Hispanics (maybe 40%) so they don’t factor in too much (blacks, of course, or still hopeless politically, so don’t even bother fighting for them).
White have now been isolated by this president (and policies that preceded him as well) and made second-class citizens. For the first time, they can start voting as a BLOCK...they no longer have any identification with Democrats. This is happening in Texas and throughout the South. Whites voted 75% to 89% Republican in 2014 - Texas whites voted 75/25 Republican, Texas Hispanics voted 55/45 Democrat (i.e., nearly split right down the middle). Is it any wonder that Texans voted in the most conservative slate of statewide candidates ever here, and did so by 20 points - they gave us (and nearly half of the legal Hispanics) something to vote for.
Spread this “Texas Miracle” north and it’s LIGHTS OUT for the Dems in state after state - it can be a ROUT...and Cruz appears to be the only one who might do this (maybe by accident...but who cares).
[needless to say, when I use the term “white” I’m not referring to San Francisco whites or Berkly radicals. I’m referring to the other 90% of the white electorate - the quiet ones just trying to raise kids or enjoy retirement]
“When Jeb Bush, the most conservative governor of a large state since Ronald Reagan...”
LOL!
George Will has a future as a comedy writer.
Will is typical of the Beltway Blind. He goes all the way back to 1964 to find a candidate that supports his point, and ignores the success of Ronald Reagan a couple of decades later. Even more important, Will ignores the utter failures of Dole, McCain, and Romney, three candidates that meet his vision of “successful moderate”.
When Jeb Bush, the most conservative governor of a large state since Ronald Reagan (by some metrics — taxes, school choice — Bush was a more conservative governor than Reagan), is called a threat to conservatism, Republicans are with Alice in Wonderland.
Had no Idea that Will was such a RINO
The moderates have done so well lately; Its time that THEY hold their noses. #Unity
George Will is tut-tutting, “Now don’t you go & alienate those moderates with your rightwing extremism, Sen. Cruz”.
Barry Goldwater was a sacrificial candidate to the inevitability of Lyndon Johnson? I was 15 at the time & even then I knew Goldwater was campaigning hard & that there was something to this new conservative movement.
The judgement that “three presidents in a year is too much for the American electorate” came only much later.
Will needs to go back to his tea & crumpets in the faculty lounge. Ted Cruz will only worsen his dyspepsia.
CRUZ or Lose!
“But the problem today is that the likes of McCain, McConnell and the party establishment have no ideology. They aren’t liberal, they aren’t conservative. They’re conniving, self-serving, compliant...and ultimately corrupt.”
They are globalist corporatists who do the bidding of Wall Street financiers and multinational corporations. They have actively participated in the dismantling of the US industrial infrastructure, the protection of “too big to fail” financial institutions at the expense of the average American, and the creation of the welfare state with its unaccountable bureaucracy.
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