Posted on 01/13/2024 7:12:55 AM PST by cotton1706
"Being the most powerful journalist in America is like being the tallest building in Topeka," quipped pundit George Will at a Palm Beach speaking engagement on Wednesday evening. Will may have been aiming for modesty in response to a remark about his prominence, but his simile also reflected an unavoidable truth: the Washington GOP establishment, of which Will has long been a part, is in crisis.
Will, a longtime conservative who is now a registered independent and voted for Joe Biden in 2020, was reluctant to weigh in on his former party's prospects in 2024, even as former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley squared off one-on-one on CNN against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a fifth GOP debate that same evening.
The debate accomplished little apart from once again reminding voters of all inclinations that former president Donald J. Trump remains the overwhelming Republican favorite, with most polls showing national leads of 50 points or more over his next closest rival, a distant second place for which Haley and DeSantis are now scrambling at around 12 percent each.
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For they've been frauds all along, George Will especially, in his perennial wig.
“Will, a longtime conservative...”
Conservative? Citation needed.
George Will is still alive?
Who knew.
As we have learned, the last straws they grasp at are often doozies.
Will used to be brilliant, back a long long time ago. But then it was clear he started drinking demonstrated by his journalistic output. At some point I noted that for every well written Will article there were about 5 that appeared to have been written by a boozed up street bum. An then Trump appeared and Will went totally, incontrovertibly and irredeemably mad. It’s really sad. Sort of like the decline of David Brooks from WFB accolyte to Slimestool.
True dat.
I didn’t know Will voted for Bidet. He is partly responsible for the mess we are in, then.
Calling will a “longtime Conservative” is akin to saying the devil is God. Seriously…..
Brooks thinks of himself as a conservative. /giggle
No, George. It's like being the tallest building in Tombstone.
That worked for decades, but it no longer works, and that is all because of Trump I might add. Yet another reason to support Trump.
“An then Trump appeared and Will went totally, incontrovertibly and irredeemably mad.”
Trump sorted things out quite well, and he continues to do so.
George Will was a “Vichy Conservative.”
Well, the RNC has to nominate someone to keep up the myth of “two parties”, they are not giving their nomination to Trump, so the media has to create a “story” about a “contest” that is entirely fake.
NeoCons were never conservatives especially “journalists” and “pundits”. They were gatekeepers making sure to keep conservative Americans distracted while the country fell apart
“Yet another reason to support Trump.”
On one level it’s THE reason.
He advocated for repealing the Second Amendment all along.
Will, a longtime conservative”
well that’s BS. Maybe too the woke children at Newsweak he is but by their standard so is Biden.
Yes, the tallest building in Topeka is the state capitol, and in Kansas that’s a big deal.
The spirochetes of TDS invade the brain and will not release their host from utter madness.
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