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From the same November column, Will defines "rent seeking": "bending government for the benefit of private factions." He then adds: "The rehabilitation of conservatism cannot begin until conservatives are candid about their complicity in what government has become."

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???

1 posted on 11/16/2008 6:14:47 AM PST by publius1
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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.


2 posted on 11/16/2008 6:20:41 AM PST by DiogenesLaertius
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I've stopped reading George on TownHall.
The only thing I acknowledge on his articles
are a #1 on the rate this article list.

I wish they had 0 rating, but 1 is the least I can give,

3 posted on 11/16/2008 6:23:06 AM PST by ThreePuttinDude (-)....Election 2008, the year of the Affirmative Action President....(-)
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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?


5 posted on 11/16/2008 6:27:41 AM PST by Madeleine Ward (.)
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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.”


7 posted on 11/16/2008 6:32:41 AM PST by trek
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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.


9 posted on 11/16/2008 7:47:41 AM PST by Theodore R. (The most frightening words in the English language: The American people!)
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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.


10 posted on 11/16/2008 8:08:19 AM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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I don't pay much attention to George Will any more. The same for Peggy Noonan (stopped reading her stuff a year ago), David Brooks, David Frum and other moderates.

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.

11 posted on 11/16/2008 8:39:38 AM PST by george123
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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.


12 posted on 11/16/2008 9:02:56 AM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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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.


13 posted on 11/16/2008 10:04:58 AM PST by yazoo
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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.


14 posted on 11/16/2008 10:34:10 AM PST by Malesherbes (Sauve Qui Peut)
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