George Will is full of self importance, that’s what I say.
There’s no doubt conservatives are energized. The Rats have managed to get us even more motivated than in 2010. But we’re still not an absolute majority - we need a fair number of independents to buy into our message.
I'm just so tried of this pretense that suddenly conservative doesn't include traditional values.
Just stop bothering me. Mitt? Never!
Good article. Thanks for posting.
Good article by George... wish he would use a clearer term than “rent-seeker”. That makes it sound like someone renting out an apartment or house is bad. I can think of a much more lucid replacement term - “favor-seeker”.
Will long ago became an insufferable, condescending a-hole who has convinced himself he’s the only intelligent creature on the planet. He believes humans are incapable of acting from altruistic motives. No matter our beliefs, we simply are stupid sheep following the command of our masters. Jerk-off.
Looking forward to his upcoming appearance drooling in Charlotte.
I say George is stating the obvious with words the opposition is not capable of understanding.
Preaching to the choir.
I say keep the elite in the dark.
The basis of his argument is this: Paul Ryan is a conservative. By picking Ryan as VP, willard has taken some sort of risk. What that risk is, I have no idea. Anyway, what george wants us to believe is that this somehow gives the whole ticket the Magic, Invincible Cloak of Conservatism. And thus it’s time for the 2/3 of Americans who identify themselves as conservative to put up by voting for willard, or shut up.
Now that’s a fine argument if you accept the premise that the willard/Ryan ticket is actually conservative. Precisely one half is: the part that gets a vote in the senate on the off chance that there is a tie vote. The guy at the top of the ticket is about as conservative as bj clinton.
So what say me? I say that george will is deserving of Gold Star status in the Elite League of romney Apologists.
The column was written to show how smart Will is.
Where is the clear simple discussion of CONSERVATIVE
principles?
NO to DEATH PANELS.
NO to OBAMACARE.
NO to TARP.
NO to TAXES.
NO to CZARS.
NO to NO accountability.
>>>”Nov. 6 we will know if they mean it.”
This article reminded me of Eric Fromm’s “Escape From Freedom.”
The problem is, conservatives are holding a pair of 2’s.
Bump.
Great piece and necessary reading.
Ryan is a token conservative. The convention is designed to “keep” the conservative vote.
Its just SHAM-WOW.
Romney will never follow a generally conservative policy nor will he undo the damage Obama has done to our nation and diminish the role of government interference in the lives of free Americans.
Eff the GOP. Its dead and dying.It does not represent the People, and in truth is seeking to marginalize conservative Tea Party people, while spouting conservative platitudes at the convention.
I will not vote for any RINO, certainly not for Romney. I will vote only Tea Party where they are offered as candidates.
George sWill needs to be a baseball commissioner. No, conservatives are NOT bluffing, and it scares the hell out of Romney, who did not even invite Sarah Palin to speak? Eff him.Romney is going down.
We will elect a full slate of Tea Party cadidates in 2016 after Obama finishes ruining America just like Romney intends to do as a RINO.
Conservatives will take back this country one seat at a time in the Senate and the House.The presidency is lost to us for now and the next 4 years.
Today’s Democratic Party does not understand what one of its saints understood — that big government is generally a patron of the privileged, a partner of rent-seekers.
For all of the pretensions that big government, especially the Democrat form of it, is on the side of the "little guy" no such thing has ever really developed, nor is it easy to understand why anyone thinking of government on that scale could ever believe that it could.
As Cost rightly says, “With the exception of the tea party, there is no real faction out there making the Jacksonian case for an end to special privilege.”
True enough, but there I would couch the explanation in terms slightly different from Will's: the Tea Parties are an expression of the only extant populist movement in the exact sense of the word; what has been portrayed as populist movements in the movements for racial, sexual, and other class entitlements are nothing of the sort. These are top-down organizations led by the same elite cadre that populates high office under the Democrats (and not just under the Democrats, but that is another conversation) - it is simply a ruling class wearing another mask. No wonder the Jesse Jacksons, the Gloria Steinems, the union leaders interface so smoothly with high office in the current administration - they're all the same people. And the movements they lead, far from being populist, are in fact merely the Establishment under another guise.
That explains the horror and disdain with which Tea Party enthusiasms are regarded by these and by those other members of the ruling class that happen to have found a home in the broadcast and print media. Will knows this perfetly well. He is, however, a member in good standing of this same class and frankly, his living and his social status depend on it. We should probably be grateful for these glimpses of sanity, these moments of clarity on his part.
Romney is playing chicken with the GOP base. He should be fighting Obama, but I guess he knows what he’s doing.