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The Final Repudiation (George Will)
Newsweek ^
| Nov 17, 2009
| George F. Will
Posted on 11/11/2008 6:53:57 AM PST by bamahead
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To: bamahead
part owner of the Orioles? Nuff said.
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posted on
11/11/2008 8:30:52 AM PST
by
lmc12
To: TheDon
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 8:40:10 AM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
To: bamahead
So George Will produces a profoundly conservative essay, and he gets bashed by most of the posters on this thread.
The irony never ceases!
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:02:14 AM PST
by
Hawthorn
To: IoCaster
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:06:58 AM PST
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: Hawthorn
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:08:44 AM PST
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: dirtboy
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."
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:14:33 AM PST
by
cookcounty
("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
To: Ron Jeremy
George bashed the McCain campaign during the campaign, which is when it mattered.
Some fought for originalism. George Will did not.
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:16:35 AM PST
by
cookcounty
("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
To: Hawthorn; Ron Jeremy
Spot on, Boyz! HEAR! HEAR!
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:17:14 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: Hawthorn
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:21:51 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: AmericanVictory
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:24:00 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Hawthorn
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.
To: cookcounty
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?
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:45:06 AM PST
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: dirtboy
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:45:39 AM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
To: cookcounty
"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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:46:53 AM PST
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: AmericanVictory
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!
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posted on
11/11/2008 9:58:10 AM PST
by
mrsmith
To: Ron Jeremy
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 10:19:17 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
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posted on
11/11/2008 10:23:19 AM PST
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: mrsmith
That’s true of much of the punditocracy here in Washington. Thank God for the Internet and forae such as this one.
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posted on
11/11/2008 10:27:36 AM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
To: AmericanVictory
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.
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posted on
11/11/2008 11:00:05 AM PST
by
mrsmith
To: ari-freedom
You know what, no. No. I will
not have you besmirch two fine English actors by comparing them to Christo and George.
:-D )))
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posted on
11/11/2008 11:06:40 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
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