Definition
de·flec·tion [ di fléksh'n ]
NOUN
...(3.) Act of diverting attention: the act of directing people's attention or criticism away from something
I am sick of all this
I wonder what is going on with all these folks I usually respect, going off on Newt? Will, Steyn, Krauthammer, etc...
How would George Will know anything at all about what it tkes to be a conservative?
Salient point;
“It did so even though it paid Gingrich $30,000 an hour. That is about what he received if, as he says, he worked for Freddie Mac about an hour a month, telling it that what it was doing was insane.
I’d take $30,000 an hour from anybody willing to pay me for my opinions. What I don’t understand is what the opinions were that give everyone such agida...aren’t there any paper trails? Emails? Notes passed in the lunch room?
Bueller? Bueller?
Not so fast. The Athenian people reportedly awarded Herodotus 10 silver talents, which is about 300 kilos.
At present prices, that's (verrry roughly) $320,000.
Comparing prices from one era to another is amazingly difficult, but there is at least a chance H's 10 silver talents had more purchasing power than Gingrich's dollars.
H could certainly buy more slaves with his silver, while G could buy more electronics.
WILL = ROMNEYBOT
The same George Will who called Gingrich a Marxist. I wonder if he would call Obama a Marxist? George has lost all credibility with me.
I’m starting to think I should support Newt based on who is opposing him.
George Will is dead.
I'm about ready to say goodbye to Fox News.
It sounds like acts of someone who has FAILED at capitalism.
The more the establishment ilk like George Will hate on Newt, the more inclined I am to support him...
Bain Capital, has cut checks totaling $90,000 to Romneys operation.
It wasn't an "anticapitalist" retort, it was a good old fashioned insult-with-a-smile. It was basically a well-crafted STFU, nothing less, nothing more.
An attack by George Will should be considered by conservatives as an endorsement of his conservative credentails.
And THAT is exactly how I take the braying from this political Hyaena.
Someone tell George that Romney can’t win without the other candidates getting tangled up in a tie. The systematic destruction of every candidate to take the lead has been so effective, the others can’t recover, and voters are burned out on the media driven sensationalism. The beltway elites can’t put Romney in the lead again. Watch how crazy they get.
Stick around Washington long enough — as Newt has — and you’re gonna make enemies. Now they’re taking potshots, perhaps deserved, at him.
Just the natural order of events.
One of Obama’s advantages in 2008 was that nobody knew him — and we all know how that turned out.
Best to let it all out now, consider carefully, and decide how much baggage you’re willing to tolerate in a President.
It’s Attack Newt Day on the WP editorial page. Count the hit pieces here. They’re terrified.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions
I am sure all of these talkingheads are counting on their regular loyal audience to swallow all they are saying about Newt but the extreme statements they are making in order to prop their guys up discredit them now and hurt their credibility into the future. They just don’t realize it yet. They just never counted on Newt pulling ahead and now they are hysterical and going off the deep end with many of their statements.