What the heck is wrong with this guy? Sound like he’s now in the tank for Obama. I used to have respect for him.
Will’s criticism of McCain’s attack on Cox is not without justification from a conservative standpoint. However, Will’s own simplistic vitriol is beneath him and serves only to provide Obama’s side with talking points.
George Will comes from the “Dark Side” of conservatism. He lives in a world dominated by the drive by media and hears little from fly-over-country. His life is baseball and liberals. He can be safely ignored.
A lot of the conservative talking heads don’t like the fact that McCain is trying to reach out to middle class people, and calling it like it is. There is nothing wrong with “moralizing” when the limousine liberals who run the big financial houses knowingly took irresponsible risks, trusting in their golden parachute severance deals and their status as “too big to fail.”
A lot of conservatives hate middle Americans almost as much as the liberal Democrats do.
I’ve been trying to read his article all morning. That jewish review site has been down.
Gotta go with George on this one, especially when McCain recommended Andrew Cuomo to take his place.
didn’t Cox introduced kind of short sells in 2007 that are now banned after market meltdown ?
You need to correct the title.
So what George, are you going to do endorse Obama now?
The bar is set higher for McCain. All Obama has to do is make sure his fly is up every morning, and people say he’s “Presidential”. McCain can make one mistake, and it follows him around for a week.
It’s not fair, but there you go.
And, frankly, I am not married to Cox. Somebody ought to get the axe.
George Will has a point. McCain is doing what he always does, bash the Republican(Chris Cox) and praising the Democrat(Andrew Cuomo). McCain said he would appoint Cuomo tor replace Cox.
George Will’s opinion actually mattered back when Reagan was President, but that was over 20 years ago. Now he’s just another beltway talking head. It is funny that some McCain haters are giving kudos to Will on this thread.
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George Will thinks Chris Cox would make a better President than John McCain. Therein lies the source of the vitriol from Will. The tragedy of it is that George Will might be right on that. Chris Cox is a steady hand and a good conservative. McCain is bashing a good guy and wants to promote the guy who did the CRA stuff that kicked off this crisis. The travesty is that Will is denouncing McCain’s personal approach, even though this column is a bit doing the same. Not his best column.
This was of course not the whole problem but to say Cox is blameless in this mess is simply untrue.
“It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?”
Yep, Will can be snooty and too inside the Beltway, but here he is mostly showing bad political manners. After the enthusiasm for Palin and the increasingly unacceptable thought of a Obama presidency, Will is still saying things that heck of a lot of Republicans/conservatives agree with concerning McCain, but have decided to stay mum about because they view Obama as many times worse.
But is McCain temperamentally suited to be president? Probably not, but Obama isn’t either, and he’s unsuited and unready in so many more ways.
The worst choice since WWII, they’re both terrible, and Will has to butt in and remind us once more.
George Will was a huge Giuliani supporter in the primaries and would always attack McCain during that time as Rudy was crashing and burning. I predicted he would be very bitter and sure enough he is.