Posted on 06/07/2010 6:08:16 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Republican pundit George Will & George W. Bush’s adviser Matthew Dowd both call-out Republican officeholders for being out of touch & out of step on the repeal of DADT. I often don’t agree with George Will, but this time, I applaud his viewpoints. He had this to say in a recent television interview:
“The Supreme Court has a famous phrase they used in some opinion ‘the evolving standards of decency that mark a maturing society”. Clearly these are evolving. The case is over.”
When asked what was going on with the Republicans in Congress, George Will had this to say:
“They’re not being very intelligent”
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George Will is a prissy little 4 eye, who took the money all these years, and never stood up to or for anything.
Even his baseball book sucked.
Simple. Priorities. While Obama is busy trying to disarm us to curry favor with the Russians (not to mention f***ing up our health care system and putting us in debt until the end of time), Republican office holders are fighting to hold on to DADT when they should be rallying voters to repeal both Obamacare and the party that’s responsible for it. Pretty simple.
What polls are showing overwhelmingly that the military should allow “GAYS”? even military polls. What are these people talking about and who are they talking too. ucked up!
Will outs himself as the "dinner party conservative' I always thought he was. That is, no conservative at all.
Will makes me sick. I wrote him off 20-25 years ago.
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Furman v. Georgia, a landmark case. He flippantly calls it “some opinion.”
He spent most of Reagan's rise and Presidency attacking Ronnie, and has famously made a habit of “endorsing” very Liberal Republicans for the Presidency. He made very clear in the last election that his first choice was Rudy Giuliani (whom he called the most Conservative candidate in the race), and his second choice Mitt Romney.
Will has been very hostile toward any form of cultural/social/moral Conservatism in the GOP. He has more than once tried to lecture Pro-lifers for activism, saying that, essentially, the entire Pro-Life movement should be satisfied with nothing more than a commitment by Republicans to appoint Strict Constructionist judges when they are in power.
He has open contempt for SoCon opposition to the homosexual agenda. He has never hidden that contempt.
Will lives in that world inside the Beltway where he is far removed in time and place from the real people of America.
He supports amnesty because on his tree lined street of wealthy neighbors no illegal aliens are ever found, save for the few that work their lawns.
He supports gays in the military because he studiously avoided any military service himself and thus has never and will never have to live with the consequences of openly practicing gays living in close quarters with other unwilling men and women. Think Boy George and Elton John in an NFL locker room.
Will is an elitist, grown rich, powerful, and aloof for writing the same column for 30 plus years. He has as much empathy for the average American as a rajah has for the lowest caste. It is not a shame that there is a George Will. The shame is that there are hundreds of George Wills, and they are running our government, our media, and even a lot of our corporations.
dittos!
They have gamed the polls and this is not the first time. Women in the military do seem to support the idea more but generally polls aren’t very specific about what DADT is. So what is left is a very fuzzy idea once that suggests that homosexuals are being excluded from the military because they are gay which is not true. DADT offenses usually involved improper behavior whether it be simply activism on Military time or improper sexual advances. Most assaults are discharged through court martial. The media have purposely clouded the issue. We don’t really have a conservative media to truly oppose the assault of sexual liberalism and their phony trumped up issues of equality and too often religious outlets are too inept to do the job effectively.
There is one thing I know which is coming if this is repealed and while it may not destroy the military it will indeed weaken it and shape it to be more open to the same soft rot leftist ideas that plague the civil service and general society. The whole idea that one can not be expected to keep their private sex life private or that their is some kind of equivalence between homosexual and heterosexual behavior is ridiculous. Also there are well known risk factors related to the lifestyle which make especially activist homosexuals incompatible with service.
There is a lot of denial and the media are just totally lying about the nature of homosexuality and where it originates from. They don’t discuss the fact that incidence of childhood sexual abuse is much higher than in the heterosexual community especially among gay males. They also don’t discuss that domestic violence is about twice seen in heterosexual relationships. The sad thing is that the gay mythology which is increasingly accepted and reported on suggesting that homosexuality is normal and just as good is really harmful to homosexuals and prevents many of them from getting the help dealing with their past abuse and issues that lead them to their sexual identity issues.
So because “standards have evolved (aka liberals will look down on you because you hold “old fashioned” ideas of morality) then the case is “closed” huh? I don’t think so..
Horsefeathers. Will was an early and enthusiastic supporter of Reagan. He came out of National Review which was a major kingmaker in the day which had helped clear the way for Reagan. Will went so far as to help prep Reagan for the Carter debates. He was an unabashed supporter.
The left is predictable and so are soft Republicans. I swear they must take pills to emasculate themselves.
Seems like every time I turned around Will was bipolar at best on Reagan. He was critical of his foreign policy, critical of his trade positions, and critical of him being too closely aligned with elements of the “religious Right.”
Will was one of the earliest critics and one of the first out of the gates to criticize the Reagan presidency after he left office. He is, and has always been, a big supporter of Gerald Ford. I have seen 100 criticism of Reagan from Will, yet I have never seen a real criticism of Ford from Will - then or now.
Yes, he helped Reagan prepare for a debate with Carter after the Primary. What does that prove?
“Big-goverment conservatism is Ronald Reagan's legacy.”-— George Will
George Will complained in 1985 that Reagan “is painfully fond of the least conservative sentiment conceivable, a statement from an anti-conservative, Thomas Paine: ‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again.’ ” Will objected: “Any time, any place, that is nonsense.”
When Reagan left office in 1989, George Will remarked, “Reagan has accelerated the moral disarmament of the West … by elevating wishful thinking to the status of political philosophy.” The Soviets collapsed shortly afterwards.
“Nostalgia for Ronald Reagan has become for many conservatives a substitute for thinking”-—George Will
“Unabashed supporter” my rear end. He was out to defeat Carter, that's it. I didn't just learn about George Will yesterday. Bipolar at BEST.
I concur about the first part, do not know and could care less about the second part. Was it not at his house the intelligentsia of the Republican party wined and dined with BamBamKennedy before he took office? Personally I figured they were all hoping to get a token Republican position in the ONEs administration.
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