Posted on 11/02/2016 11:51:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: We've got George Will. I cannot tell you how this disappoints me. George Will -- way back, long ago when I was still spinning records as a disc jockey -- was an idol of mine. I remember I met George Will in Dallas in 1992, Republican convention. I was there, having been sent there by a radio station in Kansas City that wanted to get me out of town.
So they sent me down to Dallas and said, "Go down there and prepare commentaries and then send 'em back. We might air them and we might not." And when I was there one night at the convention I went to the basement of the hall where all the network trailers and trucks were, and I sought out the ABC truck, 'cause I just wanted to introduce myself to George Will. And I did. I found him, introduced myself to him, and I explained to him how much I admired his work and how his work had inspired me to want to get better at what I do.
And now George Will said on TV last night that he hopes for a Hillary Clinton landslide, because a Hillary Clinton landslide will emancipate the Republican Party from talk radio. A Hillary Clinton landslide. I can't tell you how devastating that is, but he said it. We've got the sound bite.
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RUSH: Okay, I want to conclude this George Will story 'cause there's a lesson here. Just to repeat, George Will has been one of my heroes. He was, along with Mr. Buckley, one of my conservative idols from I don't know how long ago, and I found a way to introduce myself to him in Houston. Houston or Dallas, whatever it was. Wherever the Republican convention was in '92. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No! I'm sorry, it was Houston. It was Dallas in '84. Dallas in '84. That's when it was.
I had not yet gone... Dallas in '84. It was the-second term convention for Ronald Reagan, and I scoured the basement of the convention hall there to meet George Will. I hung around outside the ABC trailer and I told him how much I admired his work and so forth, and then when I went to Washington to do a program for a series of programs for a week in the mid-eighties, I asked George Will if he'd be a guest.
I sent him... He was a baseball fan, and I sent him a suitcase that had been used by George Brett during a record season of 2010 as a souvenir, and he came out and we talked. I haven't spoken to him much in recent years. But he was on Fox... I take it back. On the ABC News website Powerhouse Politics, Jonathan Karl was speaking to George Will, and here he openly talks about this election and expresses his desire for a landslide Hillary victory.
WILL: It depends partly on the size of Mr. Trump's defeat. If it's a narrow defeat, that's the worst (snickers) conceivable outcome for Republicans, because then it will be the old stab-in-the-back theory, that but for people like Paul Ryan or Ben Sasse or lesser figures like George Will, all would have been well. Mrs. Clinton may win by four points, but well over 300 electoral votes. That would help the Republicans. The Republican Party has to do several things. First, it has to somehow emancipate itself from its thralldom to the indignation industry of talk radio and certain cable personalities that I think have a paralyzing effect on the party when it tries to deal with things like immigration. Until the Republican Party gets right with minorities in this country, it's never gonna win another presidential election.
RUSH: Well, that's very... (sigh) Look, I know the civil war is coming, and I know that no matter what happens -- we win, you lose -- I'm gonna get the blame by somebody. But I think somebody needs to tell George Will it's not talk radio anywhere. You look at Facebook and Twitter, people are not saying, "Hey, Rush Limbaugh says..." They think it themselves now. They don't need talk radio for guidance on what to think. It's easy to spot Democrat destruction, and people don't want any more of it!
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“George Will has been one of my heroes.”
Richard Simmons used to be my hero until I learned he might be gay.
Well, he did call George H Bush a lapdog.
A stopped clock....
It would be nice to ask him how he thinks the Republicans are going to win without 60% of the base that voted for antiestablishment presidential candidates in the primary? He probably doesn’t care because he will still be George S. conservative lapdog at ABC news and that gig pays pretty good.
The 2016 George Will would absolutely detest the 1980 Ronald Reagan.IIRC, 1980 George Will was no fan of 1980 Ronald Reagan.
He's been firmly entrenched in the Nixon/Bush camp for most of his career.
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Limbaugh better wake up because MEgyn Kelly despises the same audience Will does.
He has gone along with everything MEgyn has done.
That knife is coming, Rush.
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Liberals could learn a lot from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, whether or not he really made the "sleeping giant" comment:
George, stick to baseball..............You can watch the World Series on TV now........................
I keep mental lists of the enemies of conservatism.
Will is on the list called “should their helicopter/limo develop engine trouble in front of my house, people whose skin I shall wear as a coat”.
Assuming WROL, of course.
Won’t be no more need for talk Mr. Will.
What can we do with that terrible resolve except vote?
I hope America will never have to find out. Me? I'm going to make sure my family is safe and do my best to keep America free, perhaps even to restore the rule of law.
I used to think George Will was alright. Wow, has my opinion changed. He has hopelessly changed. He is now an idiot. I wonder what happens in a man’s mind that causes him to go so wrong.
Goodbye George!
I agree with Rush. Back in the Reagan and pre-Reagan era, George Will was virtually the only conservative voice in all of media, and that was the Sunday round table on ABC. He was a ‘hero’ in that his few lines gave us hope that we weren’t crazy.
Then radio and then Fox and the internet revealed that we weren’t alone, that there were millions of other conservative voices out there longing for some airing of their common sense views on the world.
George Will must be fairly old by now. I’m guessing his late 80’s, so I’m hoping his issue is more age related — senility, dementia, alzheimers, iron-poor blood, something — because this person is not the person who stood staunchly for Ronald Reagan.
Too bad. I truly think he could have been an icon had he not strayed from the course.
Age 75
Check the passenger manifests for “Lolita Express” during the BJC second term.
George Will should just declare once and for all that he’s a Dim, and stop this charade of him being a conservative.
The Republican elites are in full panic mode. They fear Trump more than the Dems, because he actually has the potential to dismantle the GOP-e leadership cabal in the House and Senate.
A walking, talking, bow-tied rectum.
Who made you president for life?
Anyway, note that the Base is who has provided the fundamental support for the GOPee. The Base also supports Talk Radio. Wonder why.
Now that it is quite clear to all that the GOPee don't believe in representing those who vote for them, the GOPee is over. You too.
George Won’t
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