Donald Trump is a counterfeit Republican and “an affront to anyone devoted to the project William F. Buckley began”
~ George Will
Posted on 08/14/2015 7:17:10 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 14, 2015
By sundance
Donald Trump is a counterfeit Republican and “an affront to anyone devoted to the project William F. Buckley began”
~ George Will
(Excerpt from Jeffrey Lord) Back in April of this year, two months before Trump announced his candidacy, Will was on the panel of Bret Baiers Special Report at Fox and said this when the panelists were asked how much money they would place on various candidates in Baiers candidate casino. When he got to Trump he said:
..”One dollar on Donald Trump in the hope that he will be tempted to run, be predictably shellacked, and we will be spared evermore this quadrennial charade of his”…
Suffice to say, Donald Trump not only announced his candidacy, he is as this latest CNN Iowa poll re-affirms yet again the front-runner. Repeatedly. Consistently. One Establishment prognosticator after another, now George Will included, has gotten Trump wrong.
Last week on Fox News Sunday George Will stated the “vulgar” Trump supporters needed to come to the Republican party based on the terms of the Country Club elite:
[ ] These are voters the Republicans want, the Republicans want all voters, and particularly these voters, but to say that [Trump’s] tapped into something; {shaking head} Henry Wallace tapped into something, with the far left of American Politics in the late 40s; the John Birch society tapped into something, George Wallace tapped into something, and it was up to the grown-ups in the labor movement in the late 1940s, and the grown-ups in the conservative movement in the 1960s to read those elements the riot act, and say: come back in, but come back in on our terms because we are not going down the road you want to go
[Returning to J Lord] It is worth recalling here that once upon a time George Will was as down on Ronald Reagan as he is now on Donald Trump and has been in the past on Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
In a November 12, 1974 column appearing in the Washington Post on a potential 1976 challenge by Reagan to incumbent Establishment GOP President Gerald Ford, (titled Ronald Reagan, the GOP and 76), Will wrote of Reagan:
“But Reagan is 63 and looks it. His hair is still remarkably free of gray. But around the mouth and neck he looks like an old man. Hes never demonstrated substantial national appeal, his hard-core support today consists primarily of the kamikaze conservatives who thought the 1964 Goldwater campaign was jolly fun. And theres a reason to doubt that Reagan is well suited to appeal to the electorate that just produced a Democratic landslide.”
“If a Reagan third party would just lead the Nixon was lynched crowd away from the Republican Party and into outer darkness where there is a wailing and gnashing of teeth, it might be at worst a mixed course for the Republican Party. It would cost the party some support, but it would make the party seem cleansed.”
Four years later, Wills first and second choices for the 1980 GOP nomination were Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and George H. W. Bush, neither seen by conservatives of the day as devoted to the project William F. Buckley began six decades ago with the founding in 1955 of National Review making conservatism intellectually respectable and politically palatable. (continue reading)
Link to full Jeffrey Lord article
Why is George Will still on TV? Why is anyone interested in anything he says? Will has made a career of saying absolutely nothing of value, in the most serious and condescending way possible.
Hey George . Go back to baseball. You have no clue about this revolution. Adios.
Has George Will started all his shows with the disclaimer that his wife works for Walker? I didn’t think so.
You are the phony, George Will.
Has he ever been right? On anything?
You've got that right. Will is all about defending the GOPe and the status quo. And when that doesn't stick, he'll start babbling about how baseball saved America from Tojo, or some such nonsense.
I'm actually amazed that in 2015 a dolt like George Will still gets airtime. Even Juan Williams has more insight than Will.
The GOP pushed for open primaries hoping it would help establishment candidates against TEA partiers. They never foresaw someone like Trump. After listening to callers after his speech on CSPAN I’m convinced he is going to win the vast majority of independents and a lot of disaffected Dems too. He could sweep every primary.
He’s a knowledgeable baseball fan :)
Not that I can tell. He's just another version of Karl Rove. Boring, pompous, and wrong. I'll take Dick Morris over either of them any day. Morris is also almost always wrong. But at least Morris isn't condescending and preachy.
The reason he is on TV is because you’re paying for it.
If you have cable tV, you’re paying for a bundle of channels. You’re subsidizing the channels that couldn’t survive on ad revenue.
Cut the cable, get rid of George Will, George Stephanopolio, and all the rest of the DC media mafia who hate you and hate America.
He also wrote a wonderful column on his son who has Down’s Syndrome. Other than that, he has written nothing none of the other Country Club Republicans would not say.
Yep.
Right you are! Let me say that again. Right you are!
And that's why I cut cable about six months ago. I bought myself a $60 digital antenna. So now I'm watching the local news, MeTV, etc. all for free. And those bums at MSNBC, CNN, etc. aren't getting a dime from me. It's a good feeling.
Curious George. Music to the organ-grinder Marxist ear.
I despise elitists.
George Will is a snob. He does not understand the conservative base who favor Trump do so because they have lost faith in the Republican party as a whole. They are open to a different kind of candidate....even a Donald Trump.
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