I read it. It was good, for him. But, somehow, I think though it is his realization of just how momentous this election in November is. It is the last free election where actual conservatism has a chance to do something to stem the tide of the ever-increasing throngs of “rent-seekers” - the Depression Era equivalent of today’s entitlement leeches.
However, Mr. Will has been a card carrying member of the elitist Washington ‘so-called conservative’ corps for about as long as I can remember. His millieu is professional and social discourse with liberals and that tiny band of token ‘so-called conservatives’ that share the rare air in DC and other liberal environs they frequent.
I think he realizes that the potential exists that he will become irrelevant - unnecessary, because if we lose this election, there is no need for his tokenism.
I, for one, don’t really need to hear or read anything he thinks. He’s as outdated and elitist in his ideas on conservativism as is his classic bow tie.
Frankly, he knows what he’s been these last few years, and coming back into the conservative fold (or appear to), to become relevant again, is his aim. I’ll stick with the conservatives that know the real America - the ones that actually live in it.
I keep seeing people saying “this election is the last...” Where are they getting this? IMHO, the election they are referring to was, if anything, 4 years ago. We lost. We ain’t gonna get over it. The assumption that “this is the last” implies that something can be done to fix things. I certainly wish anyone who believes that would lay out their plan. Even Ryan and Romney can’t lay out a plan for a solution that will actually work. Ryan has “a plan” which is more than you can say for most but even that ignores the reality of the present. I keep hearing folks say “if we don’t blah, blah, blah Medicare or Social Security (or the gummint in general) will be broke in some seemingly obscure and only minimally uncomfortable distant date. WE ARE BROKE NOW! Medicare has been in the red since 2009. IIRC, they aren’t even collecting FICA anymore. Am I really the ONLY one paying attention in this country?
I don’t watch television; cannot afford cable any more, and besides, found most selections vapid. Most of my information now comes from the internet. So I read rather than listen and watch, and have trended towards not bothering to read people like George Will.
What he said about the political parties resonated with me. The Democrats have become the party who promises to provide “special” rights to groups like homosexuals, Hispanics, blacks, whoever. Vote for the Democratic Party and we will take care of you. This has included many banksters and particularly the Globalists supporting one world government through the UN.
This is exactly how the government was trending under Richard Nixon until the commies took him out for payback in outing communists in California during the early 1960s.
Reagan turned it back, but the Bush family thrust it forward again.
I want to see Washington changed. When a middle-class businessman goes to Congress, then a few years later returns home a millionaire, something is broken in our Capitol. Romney isn’t going to do it, Boehner supporting him is proof of that.
As for George Will, it matters not who wins this election. There really is no difference between Romney, a self-avowed Progressive and Reagan-hater, and BHO2 who is a communist.