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.
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...
“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.
There wasn’t a Constitutional crisis in 1964. Will is wrong.
“That was the difference between 43,129,566 votes President Lyndon Johnson received”
The YOUNGEST of those people, the ones just over 21 years old in 1964 were born in 1943 and turn 72 this year. They are the FDR/JFK Democrats that loved the country, fought for the country, but did get caught up in idol worship. They also voted for a TOTALLY DIFFERENT Democrat Party, at least in their formative years.
90% (or so) of those people are dead now. We’re no longer competing for their votes. FDR/JFK are just vague names to them now. And, of course, the Democrat Party has TOTALLY CHANGED.
Mr. Will would do himself a BIG FAVOR by doing his own research, rather than listening to Karl Rove or whoever is spoon-feeding him.
Will tries to sound uber-intelligent - Cruz IS uber-intelligent....
George Will jumps over Reagan to get to the Goldwater example of how the Democrats of 1964 won an election that who very few parallels to the Democrats of 2014.
2012: Mitt Romney => Ann Coulter
2016: Jeb Bush => George Will
Jeb Bush is a maggot.
Why Will is comparing his ‘theory’ (whatever that means) for running to Goldwater is beyond me. Today, when the 1964 election is discussed, the little girl pick a daisy campaign ad is given as the reason for Goldwater's loss. Even though the ad only ran once, the 3 networks seized and ran with it.
The nuclear threat we face today is from Iran, not a war hawk candidate.
The “15,951,378 facts” in 1964 are irrelevant to 2016. In 1964 there was no Internet. Our news was disseminated from a 3 network monopoly. And besides, Uncle Walter would never lie. Today the voters who care have a much better understanding of both domestic and foreign affairs.
Along with the increase of low information voters, there has been a corresponding increase of conservatives staying home on election day because they have lost faith in the system. I believe the closer we get to 2016, more Blue Dog Democrats will be attracted to Cruz or [most] any GOP candidate. Both the GOP-e and Dems are desperately trying to find an issue which will hurt Cruz, factual or not.
No better time to run an ad showing little girl playing game on Mom's iPhone..The screen fades into the computer center controlling Iran's nuclear arsenal and then hearing count down in Farsi (?). Fade back to little girl and mushroom cloud.
But McNoBoner & RNC do not think out of the box. Even if they did an ad such as that would not run because it would be a “mean” ad. McCain would stroke out and have a simultaneous coronary because it would be a negative ad.
THE Ministry Of Propaganda is doing what they can to advance the agenda of The Cheap Labor Express. They do not want us to be aboe to vote for anyone who would stop the cheap labor importation they call immigration.
George Will?
NEVER listen to anyone to the Left of Juan Williams.
George Will: Atheist, Tone-deaf. Back in 2012 he was telling us to vote for Rick Perry (after Perry’s melt-down).
IMO...he’s nothing but a gasbag. I believe he is an atheist, if he doesn’t believe in God why should I pay any attention to any of his rambling thoughts? Everyone serves someone or something if he does not look to God for his wisdom them he is not someone that I care to follow.
The point being?
“These aren’t the people who are going to provide the wisdom and judgment and foresight when we’re in a battle like this,” Levin explained.
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