George Will is a pompous shmuck and has been forever. “The next year divisable by four”. Blech. He’s sooo clever that he figured out the presidency isn’t important really, we should “concentrate” on 2/3 of the government yada yada yada.
Meanwhile people who dare to think they are just as smart as George Will think he is a fool and gee, duh, there are polls right now showing Barack Obama being defeated by Romney or Santorum.
The GOP doesn’t want to stop Obama. Winning Congress will not change anything.
George Will can go to Hell, for the past 10 years or so.
George Will’s idea is to stop Obama with a filibusterer in the Senate, and to cede the House and Senate to the Democrats.
The baseball expert is right - electing the establishmentarians Mittie or Saintorumn will achieve nothing!
George Will is every Liberal’s favorite conservative. He’ll concede any point (”for the sake of the argument”) so that he can make his point, which is so hopelessly diluted by polite and scholarly language (with a few arcane anecdotes thrown in) that by the time he gets to it, you wonder why he bothered. Little wonder he’s lasted so long on that ABC Sunday show.
All I needed to know was the author. I don’t put any stock in his drivel and didn’t read it.
He is irrelevant.
My dead grandmother or either of my twin infants could beat Obama bloody in this election year. I am certain my five year old could take him in a debate, He is certainly more intelligent!
By the time September rolls around gas will be somewhere north of $5.00, another five to ten million Americans will be on Food Stamps remembering when they could take their kids to Applebee’s once a month and Six Flags every year, Iran will either have gone nuclear or their Oil production completely taken off line by Israel (who will then be in a hot war with Iran's Sock Puppet Hezbollah) GOOD BYE 3.5 million BPD, Syria will be WORSE THAN NOW with potentially fifty thousand casualties and we still haven't scene the results of continued high gas prices on the larger economy, IE: massive Unemployment spike! Companies have cut out all the fat they have and the next move is muscle and bone to maintain profits.
We have a real chance to have a bullet proof House and damn near 60 Senators, many of them more Conservative than at any point in history.
The real problem will be making them fight off the media while rolling back Obama and his damage.
He’s implying that, both Romney and Santorum may be unelectable, but if one of them might damage Conservatives’ long-term prospects, then we should nominate the other even though he might be unelectable. Gee, I wonder which of those two George Will thinks will damage the Conservative cause?
Romney can’t win, but Santorum will make us look too EXTREME, so nominate Romney. That is the weasely argument he wants to make, but is too cowardly to actually come out and say.
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.
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.
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.
Georgie Will’s next original thought will be his first. The life of a Porch Conservative.
Pray for America
George Wilts.
Again.