Posted on 11/10/2016 6:33:38 PM PST by BeadCounter
Conservative columnist George Will is often keen on saying that Barry Goldwater, the man who suffered one of the most catastrophic defeats in American political history, was actually the victor. Will often states that, “We — 27,178,188 of us — who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just took 16 years to count the votes.”
Will is of course referring to the massive landslide which Ronald Reagan won in 1980, thus leading to a phenomenon known as the “Reagan Revolution.” Un-coincidentally, Goldwater gave Reagan his start in politics with the former’s failed presidential campaign. Reagan famously made his “Time for Choosing” speech in prime time days before the 1964 election before becoming Governor of California and later, President, running on the same small government, strong national defense, and “law and order” platform which Goldwater promoted.
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I'm not too familiar with the website, so I hope it's okay. Picture at link making the comparison.
George “the putz” Will should be persona non grata on FR. Senility has set in to this fool.
The article isn’t about George Will, thanks for the downer.
Are you a mod? Do you not like more mature people? Do you have something against Palin or Goldwater? Is English your 2nd language? If you have a problem, go cry to the mod!
Idiot,
Go count your beads. Call the 911 mod.
George Will has indeed been an ignorant putz this election cycle. Yet, within a week of the election (which he totally misunderstood and couldn’t ever figure out), he writes this interesting article.
He has always been smart, I guess, but for a smart guy he often says some real stupid stuff. This article is not stupid and finds something nice to say about Sarah Palin, a person who I admire and respect to this day.
Mods should pull this, if some troll pukes this stuff up, great article but because George Will said “Goldwater was the victor”, we can’t even discuss that.
George Will? Didn’t he ascend bodily into heaven on the night of November 2 (or disappear into a sulfurous puff of smoke, depending on who had the most to do with the Cubs’ win)?
George Will didn’t write this article, he was only referenced in it. Josh Guckert wrote the article.
George Will didn’t write the article, the writer mentions George Will.
Will did not write this. Will made the Goldwater statement years ago, and the author of this article analogized that to Palin’s situation vis a vis Trump.
Funny how Palen, who was self made, managed to defeat an incompetent Alaska GOP party and become governor. She didn’t do a bad job as governor.
Contrast that to Hillary, who had to marry a professional grifter (and rapist on the side) in order to become known. Riding on his crooked success, she demonstrated that she had absolutely no ability whatsoever beyond lying.
Without bubba, she would be a complete nothing burger.
Of course, thank to Trump, she is now a complete nothing burger.
Funny how that works.
She was not your typical Republican.. let call her a blue collar Republican very much in the Trump mold.. a different economic view then GOPe
The truth be told the party has shifted about 45 degrees,...what we use to call Reagan democrats are now the heart of this new party as Trump and Palin type Republicans..
Pat Buchanan was an early form of this too
Pat Buchanan’s anti-Isreal stuff shot him in the foot.
Before that, wasn't she in charge of a commission overseeing oil pipelines in Alaska? That a major pipeline was stuck in limbo before she intervened and got it done, with the profits distributed to Alaskans. That, after having been a mayor. President Trump should include her in his administration, overseeing a task to get the Keystone Pipeline completed (currently in limbo due to Obama).
So, can we call this election...
“Palin’s Revenge”
(Sound’s like a good title for a movie)
You have to wonder what kind of nation America would be today if the people had always elected the right man as president instead of doing it about one third of the time.
That’s how it seems anyway.
But perhaps the motto, “In God we trust” is honored in highest heaven and for reasons beyond our understanding, every result is the best one. This might imply that even Goldwater might have done something unwise, that McCain and Romney might somehow have proven to be worse than Obama, or perhaps it’s just that there was no road to Trump except this one.
As unpleasant and offensive a person as Obama has been for eight years, his work to damage America has been only partially successful. One has to wonder what it might have been that McCain or Romney might have done, that (in my scenario) caused God to withdraw favor from their efforts.
For McCain, one suspects it might have been military misadventures larger than those created by Obama (mainly overseas for other nations having to deal with his insane miscalculations). For Romney, perhaps the deal was not closed because of hidden agendas that we might suspect.
Or perhaps I am being too deterministic here and perhaps God just allows us to make mistakes here on earth. We have to hope and pray that He has a thresh-hold beyond which we are not allowed to stray, and perhaps HRC was that bad. I say this because only divine intervention seemed likely to make Donald Trump president as recently as three weeks ago. I always said that I thought he would win, but there were days around grabbagate where I thought perhaps it was not to be.
I like Sarah Palin, but I am not impressed with her intellect, discipline, or leadership abilities. She still has a lot to prove.
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