Posted on 05/29/2011 9:06:20 PM PDT by Rational Thought
Levin: "The contempt for Palin does, in fact, remind me of the contempt some had for Reagan"
A demagogue is defined as a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing people's emotions, passions, and prejudices. Which is exactly what George Will did this morning, as Doug Powers observes:
George Will seems to think American voters are concerned that our nuclear arsenal could fall into the hands of… Sarah Palin:
“The threshold question, not usually asked, but it’s in everyone’s mind in a presidential election. ‘Should we give this person nuclear weapons?’ And the answer [in Palin's case], answers itself.”
“You know how chicks are… she’ll probably get upset with a Real Housewives of Atlanta episode and hit ‘the button’…”
Doug recalls that Will's soft-spoken hysteria reminds him of how the elitists demagogued Ronald Reagan, either as “a doddering old fool” without sufficient mental capacity or as a warmongering Hitler salivating at the prospect of starting a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. But Reagan, as it turned out, negotiated with Gorbochev and signed the INF Treaty, which was the first nuclear arms control agreement to actually reduce nuclear arms, rather than establish ceilings that could not be exceeded.
And speaking of George Will and Ronald Reagan, Mark Levin has pointed out in defense of Sarah Palin:
George Will missed the Reagan Revolution not only in 1976 but as late as 1980. In the 1979 Republican Presidential Primary, his first choice was Howard Baker, his second choice was George H. W. Bush, and his third choice was Reagan. Not until days before the 1980 general election did he write on November 3, 1980 that Reagan deserved election. For all his wonderful columns, the Republican electorate better understood the needs of the nation and the excellence of a potential Reagan presidency than Will. It is hard to believe he was so wrong about a matter of such great import, despite Reagan's presence on the national scene for many years.
I wonder how many other members of the GOP "elite" inside the Beltway would also vote Obama if that is choice in 2012?
Anybody that considers Romney, huntsman. Daniels and Pawlenty as the only serious candidates is no conservative in today’s time, add to that Will praised Obama in 2008 as an “ adult trying to solve world problems” and now his consistent attacks on Sarah that gives aid and comfort to our enemies on the left....no he is most certainly not! He and David Brooks are the lefts definition of a acceptable conservative
“Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.”
George F. Will
WOW!! That’s my kind of conservative.
Will is no conservative,,, he’s a name dropping insider low-life who couldn’t wait to host the infamous “conservatives party with Obama” dinner party.
déjà vu?
Wait a minute I remember now
You know, the Dems ran this ad one time paid.. They knew what the reaction would be. The Republicans would be outraged and demand that the ad be pulled. It was but the Dems knew something else and that something else happened.
The MSM "decided" that this was a news item so they ran it free virtually every night on the network news until the election.
Perhaps a better way to put it - “House Republicans” would rather get paid by the pimp than b!tchslapped by the pimp.
Better it be Sarah Palin than a quasi-Muslim Marxist of questionable lineage and questionable loyalty to America, right George? George?
Open mouth. Insert foot.
Krauthammer isn’t out of touch with his roots. He’s getting back to them.
During the 1980s Krauthammer was a speech writer for Walter Mondale, trying to make Ronald Reagan a one term President.
The beltway pundits are like the Terminator being lowered into the molten metal. Thrashing around desperately as they realize the modern media has rendered them irrelevant.
I’m glad you found that quote, as it always comes to my mind when I see, hear, or read George Will. He’s a token conservative for liberal news organizations, and he is exactly the type of conservative they prefer...i.e. a fake one.
Will was also one of those twits repeating the false line that anti-amnesty advocates favor rounding up and deporting all illegals. He used the ridiculous line about how long a line of buses it would take to remove all illegal aliens, as if anyone was suggesting such a thing.
You’re right,,, i forgot about that one too. He’s a tool,,,and has no relevance in the TEA party/Internet era. Also,,, he refered to TEA candidates as “insurgents” on Laura Ingrams radio show last week.
“He used the ridiculous line about how long a line of buses it would take to remove all illegal aliens, as if anyone was suggesting such a thing.”
I’m all in favor of the Bus Exodus if that’s what it takes. That’s tax money well spent.
But it isn’t necessary. If done right a very large segment of illegals will self-deport, making the line of buses a good deal smaller than George Will’s hysterical prediction.
George Will is a thingy with ears.
Patrick1 wants anti-2nd Amendment, one-year guv Chris Christie to run while claiming that Palin doesn’t have enough experience from her years as guv of Alaska.
I wouldn’t pay too much attention to his idea of who’s a conservative or other such arguments on anti-Palin threads.
Well, Obama should have never even been trusted with the bathroom key.
I disagree with most of your thinking that Palin would not be a problem. I scares me that getting the job as president does not include the simple vetting that a police officer, FBI agent or even a worker in a high level financial job would receive. If your elected president do you need to summit to drug testing, psych evaluations, lie detector tests, background test, neighbor and friend questionings; too my knowledge this level of basic testing testing dose not happen if your elected president.
Without such testing how can we be assured that said person will not snap and push the button because the stress off office got to be too much? Palin in her only other political job (under 2 years)simply quit when the stress of all that litigation concerning her misuse of office got to be too much, so who is to say that the dingbat wont push the button?
People don’t pick a president, gawd does.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11trooper.html
For some reason, your comments -- together with the Beltway Crowd's mischaracterization of Palin -- brings the following Japanese commercial to mind.
WARNING: No nudity but still :
Cheers!
Which is worse, giving Palin the keys to the nuclear arsenal or giving the Socialist Obama the ability to appoint socialist Czars and Supreme Court Justices? This country will be destroyed much quicker if Obama is elected to a second term. The devastation and destuction will make it appear that a nuclear weapon hit us, much like parts of Detroit looks now.
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