And people wonder why the Republican Inside the Beltway RINO establishment has a bad name. Ask George Will.
George Will is proof no one should live within the Beltway for more than 20 years. There’s some brain-destroying substance in the air or water there.
If George Will advises something, better do the opposite
George:
You need to hire a nurse who can follow you around all day and wipe that unfortunate drool off your face while she feeds you “Ensure”.
You are an addled old man.
some are asking why the turnout numbers weren’t significantly high
Maybe they don’t want to invest a lot of energy into something that appears to be predermined?
Which is kind of a self fullfilling profecy.
There’s certainly plenty to criticize Bush for; still this idea that Republicans shouldn’t criticize Obama is foolish. The tea party doesn’t want to see Republicans infighting. That’s just stupid. Obama is The Problem.
Republicans should just start talking about Rezko, Larry Sinclair, missing records, birth certificates, Fast& Furious, Muslims in America, and Marxism. We don't need to make accusations. We don't need proof. We should just talk about that stuff as if this is the air the country is breathing right now.
OR we could talk about how the problems started when we last put a Republican in the White House.
Maybe it's just me, but I think Will's strategy is not as good as mine.
The Founders' principle was LIBERTY. The virtue among the people often referenced by the Founders was linked to this love of liberty referenced by John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
"Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty . . . be the soul of this constitution, and it will become he source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations. Vice, ignorance and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able to destroy it."(Quoted in "Our Ageless Constitution" Essay entitled, "Virtue Among the People" available here
Rediscovering and understanding the principles which made the American Constitution a protection for liberty may be the most important task of our day, and time is running out. The "enemies" already have censored these principles from the nation's textbooks and much of our public discourse.
If every person on this thread and every person involved in the TEA Party movement would commit himself/herself to understanding and then sharing the ideas of liberty with at least 3 people, what a difference that might make!
Will's analysis doesn't go far enough. Tea Partiers and other citizens who care about their country, of whatever origin or political persuasion need to become passionate--about liberty--before it is lost!
Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny," Schweikart's "A Patriot's History of the U. S.," and Stedman and Lewis's "Our Ageless Constitution" lay out these principles in easy-to-understand language and are an excellent means by which our own "dumbed-down" generations can be exposed to the truly revolutionary principles by which our liberty was obtained.
That's not very coherent. Especially the last sentence. But a lot depends on the context.
Democrats are going to say, "Where was the Tea Party when Bush was overspending and running up deficits?" and that's something any Republican candidate has to have an answer for.
It won't be the main message, but the answer to that objection has to be in the Republican message somewhere.
I got so mad (drinking coffee right now) that I decided to look at the video. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND ALL FREEPERS watch the video. Here is the link,
George Bush was without a doubt a big government Republican. Even outside the September 11th spending Bush DID GROW the Federal Government the fastest since LBJ.
No Child Left Behind, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, comprehensive immigration reform and TARP are all Bush RINO policies
Conservatives separated themselves from Bush by moving to his right before the 2008 election. That is why is McCain selected Sarah Palin as a VP. To rope the conservatives (aka Tea Party) back in to the GOP tent.
The sooner conservatives accept this reality the sooner we can turn things around. Right now as it stands you will not see any change in Washington policy unless there is true conservative in the White House. The last real conservative there was Ronald Reagan.
So voting for the Republican candidate will not put us on the right track. Mitt Romney, if elected, will continue with the globalist policies that Clinton, Bush and Obama have been pushing through.
The time is ripe for a new party.
I’d trust Obama futher than I’d trust George Effin Will.
Bush is not blameless, but Obama compounded the problems many times over.
George Will is not a conservative will have to just push him aside.
Skilled writers are always tempted to think of themselves as coracles of great wisdom. George is one of them. I have enjoyed his writing, but am frequently dismayed by his ever more frequent flights of megalomanic posturing.
And the way you start that is by saying, what got us into trouble isn’t Barack Obama
How much do you think he got to shovel that? I’m trying to wrap my head around siding with Obama that he is not to blame (even partially) for this mess we’re in and that this will somehow help Republicans? I just can’t....
Obamalamadingdong kept crying about what he inherited from Bush. Yeah, 4.5 unemployment and 1.4 trillion debt. His Hopey Changey changed all that.
Will, who supports mittens, thinks it’s good for the GOP to go after Bush? Bush and mittens are both big government establishment rinos, so I don’t get it. What’s the difference?