"Don't you worry your pretty little head, George. We got this covered."
Posted on 08/26/2015 7:14:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON -- Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Donald Trump finishes plastering a snarling face on conservatism, any Republican nominee will face a dauntingly steep climb to reach even the paltry numbers that doomed Mitt Romney.
It is perhaps quixotic to try to distract Trump's supporters with facts, which their leader, who is no stickler for dignity, considers beneath him. Still, consider these:
The white percentage of the electorate has been shrinking for decades and will be about 2 points smaller in 2016 than in 2012. If the Republicans' 2016 nominee does not do better than Romney did among nonwhite voters, he will need 65 percent of the white vote. Romney did even slightly worse among Asian-Americans than among Hispanics. Evidently minorities generally detected Republican ambivalence, even animus about them. This was before Trump began receiving rapturous receptions because he obliterates inhibitions about venting hostility.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
"Don't you worry your pretty little head, George. We got this covered."
I’m not sure what he said about Bush SR but he may have been right. Bush Sr. did a number of things that have crippled the modern conservative movement starting with the aforementioned opening of our borders to large scale immigration from the south rather than quotas from each country which would have facilitated assimilation rather than the colonization that results from too many coming from relatively culturally homogeneous sources.
Remember everyone, his wife WORKS FOR WALKER.
A great column that unfortunately many Trumpet supporters will malign w/o really reading it.
I wonder if we could go back and find Will’s columns pre-Reagan. IIRC, he had pretty much the same opinions on the Gipper’s electability back then.
Leni
That is being saved in my mind. I did not know that.
What did you read out of the atheist, Scott Walker-supporting, anti-Reagan (1980), pro-0bama (2008) George Will column that was so insightful?
Another harrumphing RINO
Every night on FAUX at 6PM you see the same guys over and over “analyzing”(???) on a rotation basis or watch that are totally out of touch with American people, completely, trying to manipulate us into their false thinking. After the fiasco debate night I have NOT turned on FAUX channel one time!!!
Hey George........retire already. Who cares what you say? Trump won’t worship at the foot of the great George Will so destroy him you will.....(you think).....
Will called GHWB a stammaring cipher. A stammaring cipher is "someone who has nothing to say and doesn't say it very well."
I actually want to see Trump win now just so I can watch all the political bloviators’ heads explode.
George Will's reputation, to the extent that it exists, is grounded not upon fidelity to conservative principles which has always been disputed but upon a commitment to intellectual rigor and honesty. With this piece he undermines his own reputation.
Conservatives do not execrate Obama's highhandedness because it overcomes the separation of powers to make government action less difficult, they execrate it because it is tyrannical. It is tyrannical because it is repugnant to the Constitution. Conservatives do not despise GOP congressional leaders because they fail to "jettison the separation of powers", on the contrary we despise establishment congressional leaders precisely because they fail to defend the separation of powers.
We do not despise congressional leaders as George Will alleges because they do not "work conservatism's unimpeded will from Capitol Hill" but because they do not work the Constitution. They do not oppose tyranny. They do not work the will of conservatism and by extension the will of the people as provided for in the Constitution when faced by tyranny. We despise them because they jettisoned their constitutional duty to advise and consent to treaties, because they jettisoned their constitutional power of the purse, because they neglected their constitutional duty to conduct hearings and investigations, because the congressional leaders have persistently lied to their constituents that they would in fact not jettison their constitutional powers and submit to tyranny.
Here is an example illustrating George Will's disdain for the conservative movement and, worse for his self image, it illustrates his misunderstanding of the Constitution. It illustrates his blindness to the tyranny of Barack Obama and his obtuseness to the true constitutional yearnings of conservatism. Will misunderstands the Constitution because he does not understand that under separation of powers each branch is to exercise its power on behalf of its constituents or its principles to the fullest degree authorized by the Constitution; it is not a proper constitutional exercise of power to acquiesce in an usurpation of power by another branch.
Will could argue whether these description of what is happening in Washington are accurate but he certainly cannot deny that these are the genuine feelings of America's conservatives. He knowingly distorts those yearnings and he commits intellectual dishonesty.
This “Trumpet” read it. Gave me a headache. I dont watch Fox. Does he talk like that?
Great minds think alike...and so do ours!
Cheers!
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