Posted on 04/04/2015 11:25:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative columnist George Will says that Sen. Ted Cruz’s theory for running for the White House — that he can get “more votes from traditional Republican constituencies” — was “slain” by the outcome of the 1964 presidential race and simply doesn’t add up.
“The 1964 theory was that many millions of conservatives abstained from voting because the GOP did not nominate sufficiently deep-dyed conservatives,” Mr. Will wrote this week in The Washington Post. “So if in 1964 the party would choose someone like Arizona Barry Goldwater, hitherto dormant conservatives would join the electorate in numbers sufficient for victory.”
Mr. Will said the theory was “slain by a fact — actually 15,951,378 facts.”
“That was the difference between 43,129,566 votes President Lyndon Johnson received and the 27,178,188 that Goldwater got on the way to winning six states,” he said.
Mr. Cruz, Texas Republican, announced his candidacy last week at Liberty University, which bills itself as the world’s largest Christian university.
On Thursday, the Cruz camp issued a press release touting how it has raised $4 million in the eight days since the announcement....
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this is the ad i think did him the most damage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
here is later commented on the ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6_PGj3VQXI
It is his passion ya know?
The words Conservative and George Will should not appear adjacent to each other.
I don’t know if he was ever anything but an establishment hack , but he sure hasn’t been a Conservative for at least 15 years
Will is a bow tie atheists see you next Tuesday
Not a cultural conservative bone in his frail corpse
He was anti Reagan in 70s
Wake up kids
Reagan might have lost to LBJ
The election was 11 Months after JFK got shot on national TV in the most conservative state in the country in hostile Hunt country where speculation abounded
The GOP candidate whoever it might have been
Was taken out metaphorically by the same 6.5 caranco as Jack Kennedy
Goldwater was a poor orator and media hated him though it was a bit less loony left than now
Now is pretty much off the charts
Give it up, George. You will not succeed in getting the Act of Love Jeb, nor the Walk back Walker as our nominee. What is this thing you have against Cruz!
Will’s getting senile. That was fifty years ago! Conditions have changed, to say the least.
The Republican RINO “Torpedo Cruz” initiative has begun. They want Bush or Walker to win.
Cruz has proven he is a threat.
Go Ted, you are over the target now and the flack will get thicker.
None of this is going to stick to Ted Cruz.Cruz will turn out democrats to vote for him.
So. In another concoction of “can’t win” theorems, Will drags back 50+ years (half a century) to explain why Cruz can’t win. Seems like the 80s didn’t even happen. Like RR didn’t excite and ignite a return to sanity.
Will and all the other loyal but-not-too-vocal so-called conservative pundits sit there week after week on TV and in their columns talking about Obama as a rightful President with honest differences just doing a bad job of it. Yet it always comes down to the amount of time and trouble they spend on telling conservatives how they can’t win and how moderation should be the watchword....blah blah blah.
They have NO idea whatsoever about what life is like in this country for real American citizens - what they do, how they feel or how they’ll vote with the right man for the job. A bunch of DC ass-sitters and blowhards.
He’d give first priority to anything written in Spanglish.
I went to the YAF convention with Dick Allen to draft Goldwater.Bill Moyers created the daisy-plucking girl--but it was Moyers' LBJ who created the Tonkin Gulf nothingburger/decade-of-political-ROE/meddling which crashed the nation's spirit.
George Will went to dinner with candidate Obama and toasted him with Kool-Aid.
Now it's time for the pompous pantywaist to drink a big glass of STFU.
The adults are here to clean up the mess.
He has been consuming too much Beltway Absinthe...
George, shut up already and go watch a baseball game.
If there ever was a shining example of, as Rush saya, trying to be the smartest guy in the room; this article was it.
At that time even with Kennedy's death, America was at the peak of its world power and dominance of economics. Many people, mostly lib economists, thought we could spend our way to Utopia. Goldwater said we couldn't. He was right.
“Mr. Will, though, said in his column that there is no need to nominate a conservative firebrand like Mr. Cruz, given how much the party has moved to the right over the years.”
Where have they “moved to the right”? Certainly NOT in the people they’ve nominated to be president: Bush Sr., Dole, and Bush Jr. were all MUCH MORE CONSERVATIVE than McCain or Romney. Dole single-handedly stopped Hillary care. Bush Sr. put Thomas on the Court, Bush Jr. put Alito and Roberts on the Court. I couldn’t imagine Romney/McCain putting anyone more conservative than another SandyD on the court.
Policy wise there was an outcry for a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage in the 1990s - don’t hear a peep about it now. Republicans in the Senate carried the way for Amnesty in 2013 and it nearly became law...7 years earlier they FOUGHT THEIR OWN PRESIDENT against it.
The Democrat Party, on the other hand has clearly moved FAR LEFT. That cannot be argued. They are masking it by saying it’s the Republicans that have moved right, and Will, LIKE A TOTAL IDIOT, has taken the bait.
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