did they use Common Core math methods?
For someone who “doesn’t have a chance of becoming president”, the media have have sure wasted a truckload of printer ink on the hundreds of articles describing how Ted “doesn’t have a chance of becoming president”.
“Today, however, there is no need to nominate Cruz in order to make the GOP conservative.... When Jeb Bush, the most conservative governor of a large state since Ronald Reagan...is called a threat to conservatism, Republicans are with Alice in Wonderland.”
I have always despised Will, who sold his soul to the devil for big money at ABC, and elsewhere a quarter century ago.
How’s this for rough math?
If its Jeb, I’m out.
The left once again “advising” Conservatives.
The elections of 2008 and 2012 taught the exact opposite lesson — running squishy middle is a formula for LOSING!
Also, I was in Texas when Cruz had NO chance of winning the Senate seat and in Wisconsin when Walker had NO chance of being re-elected.
George Will wouldn't know a conservative if one walked up and slapped him upside the head with a copy of the Constitution of the United States.
They touch on the important math but don’t understand that it’s important. No GOP nominee was going to win in ‘64, so really who it and what they’re positions were mean nothing. Similarly it’s highly unlikely that any Dem nominee will win next year, 8 years of a not popular and not effective dem president has poisoned their well (much like how no GOP nominee was going to in in ‘08). Might as well run a conservative.
Lost me years ago but, when I read Jeb is the most conservative. ...well, George, you are a blathering idiot.
I can think of 5 governor’s who actualky are conservative.
Moreover, Jeb has ststed time and again, like Romney, be is not conservative and just to put a pretty bow on it has stated he wants to be his own person and succeed in being nominated without the conservative voter.
Cuz he knows everyone voted party on the 1st Tuesday in November.
Neither Goldwater nor Johnson will be on the ballot. A comparison of the number of votes they received a half-century ago to the potential votes in 2016 are irrelevant. Neither 2016 nominee will be a Goldwater or Johnson.
What is relevant is who the Parties nominate in 2016 and the issues those nominees run on. Dozens of different scenarios can be speculated on, depending on who the two major participants will be.
He thinks like GOPe, that politics is about marketing and positioning.
It doesn’t occur to him that it ought to be about principle, and persuasion, and rallying people to stand for what they believe they stand for, and showing people the way forward.
Yeah, whatever, George. Thanks for the calculus lesson.
Somebody needs to remind George that we’re approaching Opening Day for baseball so he really ought to set his mind to thinking about the only column he regularly writes where the rest of us can expect him to make sense. This drivel makes me think he tightened his bow-tie a little much.
Wow, George Will sounds like any other liberal columnist now
“When Jeb Bush, the most conservative governor of a large state since Ronald Reagan.”
George, If you truly believe this, then why did Jeb meet with Mcconnel to figure out how to win WITHOUT the conservative base? Why does he attack the conservative base, rather than court us?
The answer is that he IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE and does not believe in conservative ideals or conservatism.
Poor poor George Will.
A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
Most of the "large state" (meaning top 5 or so I guess) Governors have been rank liberals or RINOs lately, so that's hardly a meaningful title. Jeb was a pretty good Governor overall. But anyone who views Jeb as a conservative, especially after he's been moving left since leaving office, has something wrong with their barometer. The Bushes have never been conservatives, they are a NE RINO family that moved south. Ronald Reagan's biggest mistake was choosing HW as VP.
George Will, another member of The Ministry Of Propaganda, doing his bit for The Cheap Labor Express to convince GOP voters that Jebster is a conservative when he is clearly NOT.
If the RNC succeeds in nominating this Democrat in an R jersey he will lose worse than McCain, in fact I predict he will lose worse than Goldwater and the GOP will become extinct in 5 years.
A party that is at war with its own voters cannot last.
GOP-RIP
“...Jeb Bush, the most conservative governor of a large state since Ronald Reagan...”
George Will - Did you lose something?
Oh yeah, my respect.