The Final Repudiation (George Will)

Newsweek ^ | Nov 17, 2009 | George F. Will

[lmc12]

part owner of the Orioles? Nuff said.

[little jeremiah]

Correction - a black leftist racist thug with lots of foreign money, the MSM drooling and quivering on his behalf, and powerful “friends” behind the scences. Oh, and ACORN.

[Hawthorn]

So George Will produces a profoundly conservative essay, and he gets bashed by most of the posters on this thread.

The irony never ceases!

[Ron Jeremy]

Shut up George... To ignore the DBMs role in selecting and electing this Marxist street punk is to be willfully blind to reality.

You obviously didn't read the story.

[Ron Jeremy]

The irony never ceases!

It's very clear all that they read was the headline, and assumed he was bashing the McCain campaign. The grandiose display of ignorance amazes me sometimes.

[cookcounty]

It bears repeating:

"You have a lot of gall mentioning the intent of the Founders when you actively trashed the only person on either ticket who had ANY grasp of originalism."

[cookcounty]

George bashed the McCain campaign during the campaign, which is when it mattered.

Some fought for originalism. George Will did not.

[DCPatriot]

Spot on, Boyz! HEAR! HEAR!

[dirtboy]

So George Will produces a profoundly conservative essay, and he gets bashed by most of the posters on this thread.

That's like Ray Nagin crafting workable evacuation plans for NOLA after Katrina hit.

[dirtboy]

But is he not right about demagoguery and mob rule and the erasure of republicanism as the Founders conceived it in favor of pure democracy that inevitably moves toward dictatorship?

Coming after his non-stop trashing of Sarah Palin, who adheres rigorously to her state Constitution even when it runs counter to her personal views, I find his Constitutional ethics quite situational and come into play only when his priggish sensitivities are offended. Otherwise, he'd probably be quite happy to have a monarchy here.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Yeah - I have to agree with this particular essay. It’s easy enough to say without declaring he’s my personal savior, which he isn’t.

[Ron Jeremy]

George bashed the McCain campaign during the campaign, which is when it mattered. Some fought for originalism. George Will did not.

OK, but what does that have to do with not reading an article, and responding to it as if it says something that it does not?

[AmericanVictory]

I agree that his trashing of Sarah Palin was offputting, to say the least, and, oddly enough, he has always seemed to be sort of a closet admirer of the British system as opposed to our own but, nonetheless, on his fundamental point here he seems to be on target. On a personal note, when I was involved in a significant law suit years ago trying to stop the creeping “partyism” whose fruits we are now seeing and its harm to the Constitution, he claimed great interest and requested information, but wrote zero when to do so would have been helpful.

[Ron Jeremy]

"You have a lot of gall mentioning the intent of the Founders when you actively trashed the only person on either ticket who had ANY grasp of originalism."

I would say that it takes a lot of gall to suggest that the guy who authored McCain-Feingold (limits on political speech, perhaps the most unconstitutional things there is) has any grasp of originalism.

[mrsmith]

He’s had how much time during this election to discuss “demagoguery and mob rule and the erasure of republicanism as the Founders conceived it in favor of pure democracy that inevitably moves toward dictatorship?”???????????

He doesn’t realize his contribution to what he’s complaining about- that’s a true elite!

[dirtboy]

I would say that it takes a lot of gall to suggest that the guy who authored McCain-Feingold (limits on political speech, perhaps the most unconstitutional things there is) has any grasp of originalism.

We are talking Palin, not McCain.

[Ron Jeremy]

Oh, I stand corrected.

[AmericanVictory]

That’s true of much of the punditocracy here in Washington. Thank God for the Internet and forae such as this one.

[mrsmith]

I do believe in the past George would have published this during the campaign- Obama's money, and the 'democratic' type of campaign that allowed, was the top story of the election and in the past would have been unbearably antithetical to George's principles.

But being a conservative elite pundit is so psychologically self-destructive in DC: the day one becomes a courtier is just a tiny step in an endless series of constant humiliations and compromises of principles.

[RichInOC]

You know what, no. No. I will not have you besmirch two fine English actors by comparing them to Christo and George.

:-D )))