Posted on 03/02/2012 9:29:08 PM PST by advance_copy
Sept. 11, 1964
On that evening 48 years ago — it was still summer, early in the presidential campaign — Buckley, whose National Review magazine had given vital assistance to Barry Goldwater’s [blah blah blah]
Still, the presidency is not everything, and there will be another election in the next year divisible by four.
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Will seems to have forgotten that it is the President who puts Supreme Court nominees before the Senate. Eventually Obama would get a fifth liberal on the Court and the Dems would then control both the executive and judicial branches.Furthermore, Obama with his veto pen will kill off any chance Will’s Republican Congress has to dismantle Obamacare. Come 2014 we will be in a world of hurt when it takes effect and runs already skyrocketing deficits through the roof.
His successor as chancellor was more expeditious: he burned it.
The thing to do now is to attack the dinosaur media and the left-wing Mediots. The way to do it is financially, not just because they are in straits now (which is true) but because so many of them rely on 1970-era special exemptions and favorable legislation protecting them against antitrust enforcement for monopolistic practices. Hit them, and hit them hard. Nail PBS to a cross, and make sure it dies there.
They're trying to escape to the blogosphere, to metastasize out into the Internet and capture that the way they did print and electronic mass-media. Go after the 501(c)3's and other foundations that support them -- go after the money, the board memberships, the already mapped-out web of relationships, and attack them using the IRS. Tear them apart; DEFUND THE LEFT.
No more Mr. Nice Guy -- besides, what are they going to do to us, that they haven't been doing since 1994 and the hate-filled "Man of the Year" cover of Newt by TIME magazine?
Either we handle these people now, or they will put their boots on our throats and end the Republic.
There is no one left running who can win.
I heard Eric Erickson discussing this article on the Boortz show Friday and was surprised at the tone he took as I thought Erickson was more of a red meat kind of guy. Personally, when I heard/saw it was a Will piece, I thought the discussion would be about his annual baseball spring training column, the only one he writes most years that I read with any level of agreement or interest. Otherwise, Will is just another bow-tied fop of the establishment.
then Will Must Like Obamacare
Will, of course, with the GOP "elite," counts Newt out. Newt is the only candidate with a record of ending 40 years of the Dem-controlled House. Mitt has no congressional record, but in MA he managed to reduce the already pathetically small number of legislative seats held by the GOP. Santorum, AFAIK, has no relevant record.
What is he smoking? What dream world is he living in?
Be wary of anyone who wears round glasses and looks like Joseph Goebbels.
“There is no one left running who can win.”
Perhaps the only way to permanently remove Mitt Romney from the political scene is for him to run... and then lose.
If Rick Santorum somehow wrests the 2012 nomination from Romney’s grasp, and then goes on to lose the election, Romney [like the Terminator] will be back in 2012, running again and re-creating the schism in the party that we are seeing now.
He has the potential (backed by wealth) to become a latter-day Harold Stassen amongst Republican contenders. Like the energizer bunny, he will just keep running... and running... and....
Another thought, completely off-topic. Regardless of whether Obama wins or loses, who will be the upcoming ‘rat contenders for the nomination in 2016? Hillary won’t be in the game. Who else is there?
Georgie Will’s next original thought will be his first. The life of a Porch Conservative.
Pray for America
George Wilts.
Again.
Amen!
“Much as I despise Reid and Pelosi, I give grudging admiration for their ability and willingness to fight. They never accept defeat, they never back down, they always find ways to win, and they always go for the kill.”
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Careful now, careful lest you should uncover the truth! Is it just possible that the Republican party is mainly composed of clowns who are paid to take a dive? It surely is beginning to seem that way to me.
I know Will is brilliant, but how do we get people who want to vote for Obama to then vote for a republican further down the ballot?
I`m coming to that conclusion too. If the team I`ve been supporting has no desire to win, what the hell is the point of expending any effort on my part when the outcome is predetermined to be a blowout loss?
I've thought of that too. If we get a mediocre consdrvative as the nominee and he loses the "elite" will claim it is our fault. If it's Romney, and believe me Romney WILL lose, he's gone for good and perhaps we can actually get a conservative if there is anything left of the country.
I don't have a dog in the hunt anymore but I'll work for any ABR who gets the nomination. If it's Romney I not only won't work, I won't vote.
Too late, that already happened in the spring of 1865. The leftist are still waiting for the republic's corpse to stop wiggling. They are getting impatient.
“I don’t have a dog in the hunt anymore but I’ll work for any ABR who gets the nomination. If it’s Romney I not only won’t work, I won’t vote.”
Even if Romney becomes the nominee, don’t you think it’s worth voting for the “down ticket” for reasons of advancing Republicans at the local/state/Congressional levels?
Obama may win against either Romney or Santorum in 2012. But that doesn’t mean his next term can’t be “thwarted” by a Republican House and Senate.
That may become our only feasible scenario for 2013-17....
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