George Will, the liberal’s idea of a conservative....the Conservative’s idea of a liberal..................
A very refreshing read ..... it’s about time someone took George Will behind the ‘woodshed’ and administered a thrashing.
It was a very good article, even if I did cringe every time he referenced the alleged towering intellect of America’s premier wedgie victim, George Will.
Touche.
But that has changed, now, with the appointment of NeoCons to two key positions: State and NSA.
It has been bad times for the NeoCons since Bush replaced Rumsfeld with Bob Gates. But reading Conrad Blacks article, I got the impression that he was on the verge of an orgasm.
love Conrad Black’s take on all things Trump - and he’s a great writer. Curious that he has been banished to appearing only in the New York Sun?
Excellent piece. Thanks for posting.
This was a tremendous article. Thank you for posting it!
Boy, you realize how far things have fallen when someone makes a commonsense statement like that, and you want to stand up and cheer!
George Will is a brilliant conservative — in his own mind. But his fatal flaw, what the Greeks called a “hamartia,” has always been this: He views conservatism as an intellectual exercise, and fails to acknowledge the muscle it flexes in a principled lifestyle grounded in individual liberty, quite apart from extraneous appearances of conservatism. Will loves the appearance of being a conservative, but he has been late to the party since dismissing Reagan as a “doddering” old man - before finally claiming the mantle or a Reaganaut after the hard work of conservatism had been proven by Reagan’s conservative acumen. He was a latecomer to the Reagan revolution, arriving after the revolutionaries had already claimed victory in the battle.
Will, to my view, deals with “conservative” positions from an arm’s length, never delving into details on why opposing abortion or big government, etc., is like thrusting light at a vampire. To Will, such issues shall never trouble his musings, lest he be forced to articulate the intellectual justification of living as a conservative.