Posted on 08/12/2018 6:05:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
After his recent passing, Charles Krauthammer was justifiably lauded as a leading commentator on public policy from the conservative point of view. Some said he was the single-most important and intelligent conservative force since William F. Buckley. While the praise for Dr. Krauthammer is well-deserved, I thought these comments were remiss by excluding George Will. Simultaneously, Will published a column that seems to display that his Trump Derangement Syndrome has caused him to suffer an apparent nervous breakdown telling people to vote for Democrats.
Mr. Will is justified in his thoughts about the (at times) choice of verbiage by our president. It can be less than dignified or necessary. There are some of us who can see our way through his undignified moments to revel in the benefits from his policy victories.
Certainly Mr. Will noticed the victory of a socialist in a primary election defeating a well-established Democrat. If she were really extreme in her policy positions, then we could consider her victory an aberration. Instead many of her positions may be extreme to you, Mr. Will, but have become mainstream in the party in which she chose to run to get elected. In fact, her position of eliminating any control over our border by making U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a villain and calling for its elimination immediately became a rallying cry for many Democrats. Is that something you endorse, Mr. Will – open borders?
Or how about free college for all. We are pouring too much of our national resources into colleges already and not getting enough return on the investment. We have no coherent national plan for these expenditures. Why do we transfer so much wealth to colleges and we cannot begin to fill the STEM- (engineers and scientists) related jobs we have resulting in the need to import people from other countries? We have a dysfunctional funding system for colleges already and they want to flush more money down that toilet. Are you supporting that, Mr. Will?
I know you are a thinking man and thus a supporter of one of our closest allies – Israel. The young lady who won that primary is akin to electing Linda Sarsour when it comes to the issue of Israel. It would be alright if her thoughts on this were off on a South Sea island, but they are becoming more ordinary with her Democratic friends. I cannot believe you like that, Mr. Will.
Last time I checked, Mr. Will was a supporter of Second Amendment rights. If his silly suggestion was abided to then you can look at further erosion of the rights dictated by the Democrats. That is policy No. 3 right after abortion and the environment for almost every Dem. Hard to believe Mr. Will thought about that before writing his misguided column.
Do you want single-payer (government run healthcare) for our country, Mr. Will? Maybe you don’t care about that because you get Medicare. While I am soon to be covered by Medicare, I care. The new call to arms for almost all Dems (check their websites) is either Medicaid or Medicare for all. Ask our Veterans how government-run healthcare has been for them. We just freed them to seek private care under the system; why would we want to put everybody else into a government-run system?
One of your complaints is that the Republicans have not exerted enough effort to oversee President Trump. You must have missed the hearings where they tried to exert control over the Attorney General/FBI and have received no cooperation. They beat up former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt pretty badly. But do you think things would be different with the Dems in charge? When we were dealing with issues on the border, the Republicans offered up legislation and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the president to issue an executive order abnegating his constitutional obligations as a legislator. If we put him and his team in control, the only thing they will do is have overwrought hearings that would keep the country in a dysfunctional state for two years.
The essential issue that you must have not focused on before generating your imprudent column has to do with judges. Senator Schumer has already held up appointments of all kinds on a level never seen before in Senate history. He has forestalled many qualified district and court of appeals appointments already. What do you think Schumer would do if he were in the majority and another Supreme Court opening occurs in 2019? Trump could pick King Solomon and Schumer and his gang would turn him down.
Mr. Will, I know you have delighted in the outcome of Trump’s court appointees. Do you really think anyone could have done better for conservatives? Trump is picking these judges while people you trust are suggesting these judges and Trump is relying on those people. The Supreme Court decisions at the end of this past term must have brought you to the edge of delirium like it did me.
Mr. Will, we all make mistakes in what we write. You have been writing weekly columns for a lot longer than I have. If we looked back on some of the things we have written over the years we might both cringe.
Mr. Will, the column you wrote suggesting we Republicans vote for Dems in 2018 is cringe-worthy. There are always a few like Arthur Jones in Illinois we should not vote for, but please reconsider what you wrote and come to your senses.
George Will cannot be reformed.
In fact, we now know after all these decades, he was a total con, playing the role of conservative, but he really was doing is obscuring the conservative position to make his commentary palatable for WaPo and ABC News.
A total charlatan.
George will and the leftist media are enemiies of this country.
Debra Saunders did the same thing in the Calif. Governors race. Supported Gray Davis over the inept Wm. Simon. Unforgivable.
George Will is the very embodiment of the Establishment RINO. This fraud may have influence with his liberal and Leftist colleagues in the Media. He influences absolutely nobody outside of that small circle though. He is as disconnected from Middle America or from the South as any of the rest of the Washington DC/NYC/LA media cabal.
George Will is a cretin if the first order. A smug pseudo-intellectual who is in love with his own bitter rhetoric. He shares the same view of mainstream Americans as Clinton and Obama: deplorable bitter clingers whose opinions must be silenced by the elites.
George Will is and always was a pompous ass. He diesnt speak for me.
Mr. Baseball is a screwball; he’s a pompous asshat.
This timetable may be slightly warped, so correct me if I'm wrong. This once practicing Catholic came out as an atheist.
Then he became a shill for Hillary Clinton.
When that (personality of a) water moccasin could not get elected, he decided it best to shill for Tom Perez, Keith Ellison and the Democrat Party.
Along the way he became unreadable (possibly) but insufferable (no doubt).
“Mr. Will is justified in his thoughts about the (at times) choice of verbiage by our president”
My, aren’t we the tender one. Obviously never been in the Navy.
Trump has, correctly, termed Will a “major loser” and “boring and dull” – directly confronting the elite image that Will has spent a lifetime crafting for himself. After all this time, his fragile little ego can’t take it, and he lashes out at Trump by stamping his feet, turning red, leaving the Republican party (as if we miss him) and exhorting everyone to vote for our moral enemies rather than that mean, orange man who wants to keep harmless (but profitable) illegals out of our country.
You ARE a loser, Will. And you’ll go to your grave knowing it.
Hah!
“moral enemies” should have been “mortal enemies” - but I kind of like “moral enemies” even better. :-)
Charlatan for sure; just like how the American people in 1968 believed every word from the mouth of “Uncle” Walter Cronkite.
There are names in conservative thought that should be mentioned alongside BUckley's e.g. Russell Kirk or the great Harry Jaffa to mention a few.
Neither Krauthammer nor, more laughingly, Will is in that firmament.
His dick-nose is becoming more and more pronounced.
No possibly about it. To be readable you need to be able to say things well and have something that others a willing to hear. Will used to be an undisputed and barely matched master at the first. Used to be. When he was defending Reagan on good terms with Buckley he wasn't bad on the second, but he has lost both his skill and his taste and is now just another piggy at the trough.
FAIL!
I don't mean to get off topic, he has been Pro-Trump more or less, however I really feel bad for Dr William Bennett. Was he not good friends with the following: The late Dr Krauthammer, George Will, Bill Kristol, and he was Paul Ryan's mentor? I mean talk about the luck of that draw. It screams that the beltway has no clue about the guy working in a stamping plant or the guys that work in a firm doing all sorts of machining aka Bridgeports, Lathes, grinding etc. and what then Candidate Trump and now President means too them.
He just may have written more ‘informative intellectual’ columns with Shillary as POTUS.
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