Posted on 06/28/2018 8:55:32 AM PDT by servo1969
WASHINGTON -- I have in my office a framed note from President Donald Trump. It says, "Bob, Now We Really Did It. Thanks For All Of Your Help!" The note is dated Jan. 13, 2017. He was responding to my congratulatory email to him earlier acknowledging that indeed he "did it." He won the election and was then gearing up for his inauguration and what would follow. Today he has been president for almost a year and a half. What has he done? He has realized more of his conservative campaign promises than anyone since President Ronald Reagan. Perhaps he has even outdone the Old Cowboy. Trump is more conservative than he let on! Usually it is the other way around; a presidential candidate is more liberal than he lets on. Trump's iconoclasm is refreshing.
I thought of that this weekend when George Will, the columnist who long ago won a Pulitzer Prize, finally went to pieces and ordered his readers to vote Democrat this fall. Will was not ordering his readers to vote for the Democratic Party of Adlai Stevenson, or former Sen. Bob Kennedy and former President John Kennedy, or even former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He was ordering them to vote for the party that looks to the sore loser, Hillary Clinton, and the socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders. Reportedly, Sanders is the socialist who, for the second year in a row, hauled in 1 million big ones and owns three spacious houses. Clinton ... well, you know how much swag she and her husband have amassed from a life spent in what they call "public service."
I say Will finally went to pieces. There have been signs of his impending crackup before: the time he gave himself over to a diatribe against former President George H. W. Bush. Will called this courtly gent a "lap dog." Bush went on to become president after an illustrious public life. For that matter, between Will's famous lunches with former first lady Nancy Reagan (and former Washington Post publisher Kay Graham and former Washington Post editor Meg Greenfield -- he has been renowned for downing comestibles with powerful women), he denounced her husband for his tax cuts and all the while accepted the president's hospitality. He even denounced former Rep. Jack Kemp, again for tax cuts, the same kind of tax cuts that are energizing our economy today. Tax cuts and smaller government bring out the worst in Will.
I have, through the years, speculated that Will suffers from what I call "writer's hysteria," wherein the patient temporarily "loses control of his literary tools and of his mind." This happens to Will increasingly. He suffered it during the 2016 election when he left the Republican Party and doubtless was surprised that others did not follow. Then, last weekend, he ordered his readers to follow him en masse to wherever he plans to go. Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard is undoubtedly with him, and, of course, David Frum(p) of the Atlantic. As to where they are going he presumably mentioned it later in his column, but his turgid prose defeated me. As I say, when a writer suffers writer's hysteria, he at least temporarily loses his literary tools.
My colleague Dan Flynn, writing in the Spectator A.M. Bulletin on Monday, pithily summed up why serious conservatives and most independents will vote for Trump's Republicans in the fall: "Trump cut taxes, appoints good judges, presides over a golden age of deregulation, shows far more restraint with regard to the military adventurism embraced by recent Republicans, and takes a strong stand against the invasion at the Southern border. Why should Republicans vote against that?"
Finally, there is another reason conservatives and independents will vote for Trump in the fall. He has the energy, the voice, the character and the smarts of a winner. In Yiddish it is called "sechel." Indeed, he is the greatest campaigner since Bob Kennedy in 1968. He relishes the campaign, and he is still on the campaign trail today.
When I flew with him in his campaign plane in October of the election year, it was about the campaign's darkest hour. The "Access Hollywood" tapes had been made public on October 7, and he was pronounced dead. All the major polls had Clinton ahead. For three days I was on the plane with him, starting on October 11. I was prepared for the worst. Yet he was always upbeat at stop after stop. He relished the Purple Heart a Vietnam War veteran gave him and other gifts along the way. His energy was astounding, and he maintained his cool and his friendliness. If he thought he was going to lose, he never betrayed it. Perhaps that is why I stuck to my prophecy, repeated regularly in this column. I said, "Donald, you are going to win." He did, and now George Will has gone to pieces. I have known him for 50 years. He is down and almost out.
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Looks like Democrat George Will just realized that he’s soiled his adult diapers...
George Will has just confirmed what Donald Trump said six years ago.
Will is a globalist, elitist POS.
Is george on suicide watch?
George Will has always been an elitist parading as a conservative, hiding behind elegant (and at times, almost indecipherable) prose to show that he is sooooooooo much smarter than everyone else.....
He is a little man with no real ideas or understanding of how to implement one if he had it....
Attention Will and other GOPE Snowflakes. President Trump will watching you tonight every night for 6+ yearsQ
To be a never trumper at this point is to be a never conservative.
Will’s books are impenetrable, except for his books about baseball, which are good.
Anybody who makes his trade taking simple things and making them complex is ultimately going to be left looking for work.
His job and he did it well till Trump drubbed him was to legitimize the Left. Today no one even a bow tied faker par excellence can legitimize the insane of the left.
I long suspected it, but it’s been confirmed in Spades:
He cares more about the relationships, sources, and the invites to insider parties he’s worked decades to attain, than he does the future of this country.
That he either can’t see or doesn’t care about the existential threat the left poses to our union. Either option is inexcusable.
“he has been renowned for downing comestibles with powerful women”
Some women are drawn to and intrigued by homosexual men.
Just like his Orioles.
I enjoy LOATHING George Will.
A has been more suited for media heydays of the late 70s-2000.
He was done when those Miller High Life beer commercials came out, framing who we were, where we were headed, and what to do to fix it.
Get real, cut costs, live eithin your means, and piss on people who entice you toward anything else.
I thought George Will was dead? Mandela effect? Trump effect?
He has a case of the sadz.
That guy has seriously lost his way. He seems to have no anchor for his soul and nothing solid to tie to.
“Conservative” is conceivably just as shifting and unstable as Leftism, maybe even more so.
The Left has a fixed goal: Global Totalitarian Government (AKA Total Global Destruction). They’ll lie, cheat, steal, and kill to get it, but at least they have a vague idea of what they’re after.
“Conservative” conceivably means “conserve the status quo”, including worship of the current Establishment. But the status quo and the Establishment changes, so from what I’ve seen, a lot of these “conservatives” shift over time as well. In a way, I don’t think these types know what they stand for.
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