Posted on 11/16/2008 6:14:47 AM PST by publius1
George Will September 23: "Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.
"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?"
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George Will November 16: "As for the president-elect, he promises to change Washington. He will, by making matters worse. He will intensify rent-seeking by finding new ways -- this will not be easy -- to expand, even more than the current administration has, government's influence on spreading the wealth around."
To which I say, Ho-Ho. He must mean HIS complicity! Will is up there with other conservatives who either backed Obama, or were so highly critical of McCain as to have their behavior amount to the same thing; some are now being reeducated by experience, some not. As for Will, shall we send him a batch of broken mirrors???
McCain was a Rino. None of us were happy with him and he showed how little he actually cared about conservatism with his bogus bailout plan.
I wish they had 0 rating, but 1 is the least I can give,
Indeed, this election was like having a choice between bedding Helen Thomas or Janet Reno. Janet's the better-looking of the two, but it's hard to see how you could get excited about the prospect.
So conservative columnists are now not allowed to write their opinion about RINOS? Or is that just during elections?
Is it George Will’s job to get RINOS elected?
Is it his job to get quasi-socialists elected? Is it his job to only call out the other side AFTER election, while bashing ours during the election?
George Will and Peggy Noonan just to name two are classic examples of Stalin’s “Useful Idiots.” They are completely in the thrall of the PC culture which does not allow them to think clearly about a Communist like Obama. They are also classical racists in the sense that their eye’s cannot see Obama for what he is, their eyes see only a “black man.”
Maybe not, but perhaps he should have stuck with guy who would have given us a higher probability of having another Presidential election in 2012.
ML/NJ
George F. Will makes some good points, but he is primarily interested in veering left so that some D.C. and NYC liberals will say something nice about him, maybe no more than complimenting him on his bow ties.
Neither of these clowns should be in the White House as both are happy to turn the US into Little Mexico. But Will is just as unqualified to tell us who the right guy for the job might be.
And, until a Republican leader emerges who is truly conservative, I just don't much care any more. If they want money they will only get it when I am paying to see a conservative run. I am tired of wasting my money.
I’m not a George Will fan, but (at least) I bet he is consistent. He didn’t drink the McCain kook-aid back in Dec/Jan, when McCain surged. The useful idiots were the Conservative pundits and voters who foisted McCain on the rest of us. I voted for McCain in the election, but thought Romney the best of a pretty weak field. At least Romney wasn’t too-old, impulsive (like McCain), and knew his economics.
Against all odds, McCain still had a decent shot until he “suspended his campaign” to push for the bailout—that was an unmitigated disaster. He might even have won had he opposed the bailout, but we’ll never know.
George Will wrote an article about his Down Syndrome son, relating it to abortion. It’s the article that turned me from a complacent and undecided pro-lifer to a committed one. I think he is spot on when he says Republicans (and i think he means Republican leadership) are as much to blame as Democrats for our loss this election. The party abandoned us conservatives as much as we abandoned them.
I was finished with Will some years ago when in an interview in New Hampshire he went into an anti-Christian rant. He is simply a poseur.
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