Posted on 08/14/2015 9:54:14 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Who made George Will the spokesman for the GOP? Hes defining himself in this article as the consummate judge of who and who isnt a conservative or a Republican. This is one of the most dishonest political hits I have ever read. Never mind that Wills wife works for Scott Walker, who I already had issues with because of the people he has surrounding him Im sure that has nothing to do with this at all (thats sarcasm by the way). I support and want Ted Cruz elected, but I take great umbrage at the way Trump is being treated. He should be allowed to run his race and state his stances for Americans to take or leave. Thats the way free elections are supposed to be run. Not by some columnist who uses false arguments (see below) to justify calling for banning Donald Trump from future debates and calling any that support him faux conservatives. Thats a lie I know a lot of passionate conservatives and Tea Party people who are supporting Donald Trump. Will is attempting to discredit and marginalize those who would dare support Trump. Careful George you are beginning to sound a great deal like Saul Alinsky.
Donald Trump
From the Washington Post: In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. Because the actual Donald Trump is wealthy, he can turn himself into an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar presidential candidate. It is his right to use his riches as he pleases. His squalid performance and its coarsening of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.
When, however, Trump decided that his next acquisition would be not another casino but the Republican presidential nomination, he tactically and quickly underwent many conversions of convenience (concerning abortion, health care, funding Democrats, etc.). His makeover demonstrates that he is a counterfeit Republican and no conservative.
He is an affront to anyone devoted to the project William F. Buckley began six decades ago with the founding in 1955 of the National Review making conservatism intellectually respectable and politically palatable. Buckleys legacy is being betrayed by invertebrate conservatives now saying that although Trump goes too far, he has tapped into something, and therefore. . . .
Therefore what? This stance if a semi-grovel can be dignified as a stance is a recipe for deserved disaster. Remember, Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond tapped into things.
In 1948, Wallace, FDRs former vice president, ran as a third-party candidate opposing Harry Trumans reelection. His campaign became a vehicle for, among others, communists and fellow travelers opposed to Trumans anti-Soviet foreign policy. Truman persevered, leaders of organized labor cleansed their movement of Soviet sympathizers, and Truman was reelected.
He won also in spite of South Carolinas Democratic Gov. Thurmond siphoning off Democratic votes (and 39 electoral votes) as a Dixiecrat protesting civil rights commitments in the Democratic Partys platform. Truman won because he kept his party and himself from seeming incoherent and boneless.
Conservatives who flinch from forthrightly marginalizing Trump mistakenly fear alienating a substantial Republican cohort. But the assumption that todays Trumpites are Republicans is unsubstantiated and implausible. Many are no doubt lightly attached to the political process, preferring entertainment to affiliation. They relish their candidates vituperation and share his aversion to facts. From what GOP faction might Trumpites come? The establishment? Social conservatives? Unlikely.
They certainly are not tea partyers, those earnest, issue-oriented, book-club organizing activists who are passionate about policy. Trumps aversion to reality was displayed during the Cleveland debate when Chris Wallace asked him for evidence to support his claim that Mexicos government is sending rapists and drug dealers to the United States. Trump, as usual, offered apoplexy as an argument.
A political party has a right to (in language Trump likes) secure its borders. Indeed, a party has a duty to exclude interlopers, including cynical opportunists deranged by egotism. This is why closed primaries, although not obligatory, are defensible: Let party members make the choices that define the party and dispense its most precious possession, a presidential nomination. So, the Republican National Committee should immediately stipulate that subsequent Republican debates will be open to any and all but only candidates who pledge to support the partys nominee.
This years Republican field is the most impressive since 1980, and perhaps the most talent-rich since the party first had a presidential nominee, in 1856. But 16 candidates are experiencing diminishment by association with the 17th.
Soon the campaign will turn to granular politics, the on-the-ground retail work required by the 1.4 percent of the nations population that lives in Iowa and New Hampshire. Try to imagine Trump in an Iowa living room, with a macaroon in one hand and cup of hot chocolate balanced on a knee, observing Midwestern civilities while talking about something other than himself.
Television, which has made Trump (he is one of three candidates, with Mike Huckabee and John Kasich, who have had television shows), will unmake him, turning his shtick into a transcontinental bore. But not before many voters will have noticed weird vibrations pulsing from the GOP.
So, conservatives today should deal with Trump with the firmness Buckley dealt with the John Birch Society in 1962. The society was an extension of a loony businessman who said Dwight Eisenhower was a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy. In a 5,000-word National Review excoriation (Buckleys word), he excommunicated the society from the conservative movement.
Buckley received an approving letter from a subscriber who said, You have once again given a voice to the conscience of conservatism. The letter was signed, Ronald Reagan, Pacific Palisades, Cal.
I find it fascinating that George Will would choose the Washington Post to use as a public forum to attack Trump. Will is from the National Review which dumped Mark Steyn because of his opinions. Thats telling. And I love how he hides behind William Buckleys skirts. He even invoked Reagan, who by the way, was a friend of Trumps. Will also does not speak for the Tea Party or conservatives in general. His conservative credentials leave something to be desired on their own. This is a stitched together hit piece that is specious and weak in logic and facts. I actually support the John Birch Society. Im also a dedicated commie hunter. For George Will to throw the political kitchen sink at Trump instead of tending to his chosen candidates campaign and stances, simply because he fears Trump will somehow win, speaks to the strength of Trumps message and the weakness of Wills conservatism.
leaders of organized labor cleansed their movement of Soviet sympathizers
I’m sorry George, just when did THIS happen?
Donald Derangement Syndrome symptom #30 - Trump supporters aren’t Repubican.
Donald Derangement Syndrome symptom #30 - Trump supporters aren’t Repubican.
Will Will support a 3rd term for Trump?
Agree. George Will should be banned from commenting on ANY Republican candidate.
He should stick to baseball, it's all he really understands.
George is afraid of losing his seat at the table of iniquities.
George Will is a social commentator, and I don’t know anyone who needs his comments.
(biased)-FOX “News”’ conservative-backstabber
RINO George Will has his job as a
FOX “News”-”killer-B”-supporter,
and LOVES it, for his wife is also paid to push
a non-conservative. He can double dip.
Here is my retort to George Will and the Rest of the Foggy Bottom Swill sucking Republican Establishment.
I expect in your next opinion piece you will promote the R.N.C. and the Republican State Party Meetings the motion to be made and seconded and voted thru that from this day forward EVERY STATE PRIMARY ELECTION SHALL BE ONLY for Registered Repbulicans ONLY!
No longer will there be ANY open Republican Primaries for Public Office.
I also expect that as of Today Thad Cockran be removed from the Senate Republican Caucus and stripped on all Committee seats. Because he was elected by ABUSING the open primary in Mississippi!
George Will is your typical Liberal unethical Politician. He wants rules changed that will benefit him today and should be ignored when they don’t.
My oh my.
FReepers are certainly bunching them up here.
We have George Will who is neither a conservative or a Republican whining over Donald Trump who also is neither a conservative or a Republican.
Someone tell me (and I’m sure you will), why do we care?
George Will is a token media-”conservative” who knows exactly how long his leash is.
George Will said Reagon was a loser and should drop out. This guy is not credible.
The regular cast of so-called Conservative DC fools have sat around those tables, both on Fox, in Sunday shows, and in their cushy WP columns or other similar rag, and pontificated about how we have to be reasonable, cautious and sensible.
For years! They spoke of Obama as reasonable President with whom we have only minor ideological policy differences, disagreements about ‘best methods’ to advance our state of affairs and all that other bullsh!t. They are outright collaborators and in a just world after a revolution should be first on the block, IMO. To listen to the propaganda, misinformation and subversion they spew and scrawl is a grievous mistake.
“Remember, Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond tapped into things.”
George Will really thinks he has discovered the ultimate analogy to define Trump. Will totally ignores the fact that the country is being completely destroyed and people are furious about it, and he seeks to dismiss that fury and worry by going back in time to a period that has absolutely NOTHING in common with what is occurring now.
George Will slammed Trump; Trump hit back, and this little nerd can’t get over it, and is out to destroy Trump. He evidently thinks he has that kind of clout. He is completely unhinged.
I tried to read it, but all I saw was blah, blah, blah, blah.
Trump, Cruz, Carson or forget it, George. None of those guys is probably to your liking.
George Will is a progressive. I don’t want to shut down his speech. He’s free to express his controlling ideas. However, he shouldn’t define who should or shouldn’t be a candidate. I wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders called himself a Republican and took part in Republican debates. We know Sanders is a socialist and he would provide a perfect foil to express conservative arguments. I’m not calling Trump a socialist, but Trump is providing a perfect foil to make conservative arguments as well. He has also brought focus to real issues and not issues invented by the MSM and Democrats.
I heard Will say on Fox last night that he wished Sherrod Brown would run in glowing terms...
That’s all you need to know...
George Will is starting to get on my nerves. What the h*ll does that guy stand for other than the GOPe, the DC political establishment and the status quo?
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