George Will....(George Will's trifecta of punitive aspirations)

The Jewish World Review ^ | 13 Aug 03 | Tony Blankley

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George F. Will, the respected dean of Washington conservative columnists, has written a singularly dyspeptic column on the California recall election. He advises truly conservative Californians to "vote against the recall to protest its plebiscitary cynicism (and as a precaution find a conservative candidate from the list)." He goes on to hope for Governor Davis to be muscled into resignation, which, Mr. Will theorizes, might "deflate" the recall and permit Lt. Gov. Bustamante to become both acting and then actual governor -- with all the problems that will entail. This, Mr. Will suggests, would be "condign punishment" for the Democratic Party.

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I wonder what Will's priorities are sometimes. He can really become a Democratic politician's best friend sometimes. It reminds me of his Bush-bashing in '88 and '92.

[TheDon]

"Whatever the past electoral mistakes made by California voters, our fellow citizens are now in need of sober decision-making and good government."

Amen.

[Crusader21stCentury]

I wonder what Will's priorities are sometimes.
It's called having convictions and not selling out your morality. In other words Mr. Will is not a R.I.N.O.

[My2Cents]

I think Will is miffed that Californians didn't consult with him first before pressing forward with the recall.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

I lost interest in 'Mr. Puniverse' in the 80's. There was something about his persona that I didn't like.

His 'michael j fox' 80's conservative uniform put me over the edge.

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He'd rather be right than President. I'd rather not have Charles Schumer's SCOTUS wiping their butt-cheeks on The US Constitution.

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He'd rather be right than President. I'd rather not have Charles Schumer's SCOTUS wiping their butt-cheeks on The US Constitution.

[vbmoneyspender]

Are you saying you are a RINO if you support the recall of Davis?

[Consort]

Will's columns need a translator of late.

[Bluntpoint]

A friend of a friend emailed me and told me that Crusader21stCentury was a RINO.

However, another friend emailed me and said that friend of a friend is also a RINO.

I'm not sure I believe my friend because I always thought he was a bit of a RINO.

[norwaypinesavage]

"I wonder what Will's priorities are sometimes. He can really become a Democratic politician's best friend sometimes."
George Will is a reasonable conservative, but he is surrounded hundreds in the Washington Post Liberal herd. His occasional voice of reason is usually drowned out by the mindless cacophony of his peers. He needs understanding and compassion for putting up with this endless drivel. Either that, or tune him and his "friends" out, I did.

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Will should take the opposite tack like William Safire at The Old York Times. He is in a target-rich environment. He should fire on full-auto without remorse or hesitation. Surrounded by that many Birkenstock Bolsheviks, it's not like he'd frequently miss.

[kellynla]

Thank God for Tony Blankley! He is the only "talking head" I have heard that has a clue as to what is going on in CA. And Blankley is the only person on the McLaughlin Group who supports our war on terror. McLaughlin has become senile and Buchanan has decided to cut off his isolationist nose to spite his patriotic face. I enjoy and respect George Will but I have to respectfully disagree with him on the recall. The recall was proposed by and passed into law by the "progressives" in 1911 and now that the law that they passed has come home to roost the "progressives" don't like the bed they have to lay in. Only 55 days 'til we DUMP DAVIS and as yet no platform and/or solutions to the problems in Sacramento from Aunold. VOTE 4 MCCLINTOCK or pay the consequences! http://tommcclintock.com

[lentulusgracchus]

It's called having convictions and not selling out your morality. In other words Mr. Will is not a R.I.N.O.

I posted the same rumination over on the other recall-related thread, but I was only thinking out loud. Will has gone ahead and advocated "ruin all around".

I said I thought that the fast one that The Rapist and California 'Rats are trying to pull -- having Davis resign at the last second, leaving Bustamante, "Mr. Ethnic", in the governor's mansion to fight off recall with hordes of suddenly-energized motor-voting Mexican nationals busting down the polling places -- might backfire on them in a couple of years, producing a reign of terror, so to speak, that would cause all of California to yawn in Technicolor and make the 'Rats unelectable for a generation.

But like I said, I was just thinking out loud.

The other possibility is that Bustamante gets in, stays in, and promptly has 'Rat operatives handing out citizenship to everyone in northern Mexico, so they can vote absentee from Durango or Oaxaca or wherever.

In other words, it might turn out infinitely worse than Will imagines or I daydreamed about.

[Bonaparte]

... having Davis resign at the last second, leaving Bustamante, "Mr. Ethnic", in the governor's mansion to fight off recall...

If Davis had resigned before the recall election was certified, Bustamante would have finished Davis' term in office. But that didn't happen. So even if Davis resigns on Oct 6, Bustamante will be governor for no more than a few days -- unless he actually wins on "question 2" of the recall ballot, which he could have done whether Davis resigned or not.

[Jimmy Valentine]

George Will prefers the more reasoned process of representative republicanism. I think his take and Tonet Blankleys are both wrong here.

The message I get from this is that we the people are beginning to hit the "gag reflex" with career politiciand and activist judges that are manifestly indifferent to the will of the people.

California as well as other states have passed several referendums that have been either ignored or done away with by some renegade judge on the flimsiest of arguments.

Maybe we are getting closer to the third great American Revolution.

Regards,

[Brandon]

If Davis had resigned before the recall election was certified, Bustamante would have finished Davis' term in office. But that didn't happen. So even if Davis resigns on Oct 6, Bustamante will be governor for no more than a few days -- unless he actually wins on "question 2" of the recall ballot, which he could have done whether Davis resigned or not.

I think (hope?) most people understand that. But the strategy behind a Davis resignation would be that the object of hatred would suddenly be gone, leaving only the Republicans voting "Yes" on the recall. Democrats and Independents would be much more likely to decide that with Davis gone, the problem has been solved, and they don't want to go through three governors in a matter of a few days or weeks, so they might just vote "no".

The fly in the ointment is that it depends on Davis acting in the best interests of his party, to his own detriment. Not a good bet, imho.

[what's up]

I love Tony Blankley. He is one conservative who has never disappointed me.

Wasn't his father Winston Churchill's press secretary or something?

[Bonaparte]

I understand what you're saying, Brandon, but can't see this as a viable strategy. If Bustamante is titular head of state for a few days while Californians pick their new governor, so what? (At every election, Californians go through two governors in a matter of a few days, right?) And, of course, a "no" majority on recall itself will be moot if Davis has already resigned. Since he won't be on part 2 of the ballot, there's no way he can legally be brought back into office.

So the outcome will be the same whether he resigns or not -- the "part 2" candidate with the most votes, wins. But here's where a problem might arise -- a tie vote betweent the two front runners, delaying the outcome until a run-off no earlier than December. If Bustamante were one of the two, he'd have time to look goobernatoriale, senor -- just what we don't want.

[fightu4it]

We all know how the dem's operated California. Never met an illegal they didn't like: to sign up for medical benefits, motor voter, welfare, or whatever the gov. give away of the day was.

They were so sure that Al Gore was going to be president and Washington would continue to funnel billions into California and Calif. would supply the Democrat votes.

Well, George Bush put a little crimp in their plans and when the stream of cash from Washington to California dried up Gray Davis was exposed for what he is, a tax and spend and spend and spend liberal.

I shudder to think of the tax money collect from all the other States in this country that has been thrown down that rat-hole of a State, California.

George Will can say what he wants,but California spent themselves into this mess and the sooner they acknowledge it, the better.