Your probably one of those great unwashed who believe in God. Learn to appreciate your superiors.
Pray America is waking
Bump
Alas,methinks that George is too busy smelling sulfur.
Well said Mr. Lucas. Well said.
The amazing thing is that all these people who have benefited greatly from America’s rule of law, freedom, free enterprise, and political stability are so cavalier about us going down the rabbit hole of communism.
Bloomberg, Zuckerberg, Gates, Buffet,...most of them are all too willing to cut off the rungs of the ladder behind them that they have already climbed. Selfish, reprehensible, and unnecessary.
Trump is different obviously.
Actually it's worse than that. They're turning the country into a socialist Latin American banana republic.
You should prolly post all of it or at least a linky....
George Will is a phony journalists whose hobby is supposedly baseball, but the kind of baseball fanatic that simply wants to sniff the catcher’s jockstrap for the intellectual thrill.
And good job piece btw. George Will I used to listen to. Since he won’t listen to us, why should we to him?
Very good article, thanks for posting.
THE FULL ARTICLE
George, I am one of the guys at the end of the bar nursing a beer.
You know, the guys you in your elitist Washington ivory tower look down upon and mock because we are willing to listen to what Donald Trump has to say.
You should listen, too, instead of ridiculing us. If you did you might hear the sound of millions of people yearning for the United States to return to its greatness, instead of watching their country slide into a socialist third-world Greece that cannot even protect its borders, let alone lead the world or stand up to the terrorists in Iran.
You say in your Aug. 13 syndicated column that Trump, and the rest of us at the bar — the “local” Donald Trumps, you call us — are “unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar,” although you condescend to admit that we do have the right to be so, given that we live in a free country. That is big of you.
Well, George, one of the reasons the United States is still a free country is because many of the men drinking at the end of the bar that you mock are the very men who fought in the last half dozen or so wars we have fought to keep the country free.
Not all of them were as fortunate as you to be able to go to Princeton and Oxford instead of into the military.
Many of the men at the bar do indeed support Donald Trump and they don’t care that he is, as you say, “a counterfeit Republican.”
They have seen the “real” Republicans in Washington — the leaders you hang out with — like House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and all the others, and they have concluded that they are no different from the Democrats.
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So why not something new?
Trump is something new, even though he has been around for a while. He is resonating because he is unabashedly talking about the things that the guys at the end of the bar — and elsewhere — are talking about: jobs, anchor babies, illegal immigration, building a wall, out of control welfare, a strong military, caving in to Iran, defeating ISIS and “making America great again.” What’s not to like?
Trump has totally upset the Washington political establishment. His meteoric rise has shown how out of touch with the country you and your fellow national opinion makers are, and you resent it.
You also resent Trump because, unlike all the other presidential candidates, he will not kiss your ring, flatter you, or seek your approval. As a matter of fact he detests you, does not trust you, does not need you, and tells you off. He thinks you and your colleagues are dishonest and is not afraid to say so.
And why should he trust you when you use your column to attack him while your wife admittedly is a top campaign aide to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who you praise, and who is also running for the GOP nomination for president?
In addition, sin of all sins, Trump is paying his own way. How revolutionary is that?
In an age when politicians are bought and sold by special interests, and are out begging for money every day, Trump is using his own money to pay for his own campaign. That is enough to drive any establishment politician, or Washington columnist, into the nearest bar.
I am a newspaperman who has spent a lot of time in bars, sometimes alone, other times with people from various walks of life.
Some of the men at the end of the bar I met worked at the post office, or in construction, or were cops and firemen, the types of men who would rush into a burning building to save a life, like they did at the World Trade Center in New York.
In my younger days I met men in bars who fought at Iwo Jima and the Battle of the Bulge. Later I drank with Korean War veterans who fought at the Chosen Reservoir.
Later I shared bar stools with veterans of Vietnam, and I would today gladly buy a round for any veteran who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else, if only to thank them for their service.
I have found that there is a lot of talk in bars, much of it foolish. I have also found that there is wisdom there as well, wisdom that comes from men drinking at the end of the bar who have seen something of life.
Maybe you should visit one sometime and talk to the men at the end of the bar.
Will won’t listen. He is a dedicated Inside-The-Beltway henchman who knows what would happen to him were he to oppose the globalists.
This is a brilliant piece. Thanks for posting!
I can’t believe there haven’t been any comments on the newspaper website itself, the only one from a guy named ‘Joe Krozac’ who said this:
“THIS column should be required reading by each and every pseudo-intellectual like George Will and his pack of GOP elites, because Peter Lucas NAILS it with a 10 pound hammer.
BRAVO!!! I think Peter Lucas should be moved on to the short list for Press Secretary in the Trump Administration, that’s what I think!
Well done!”
You go Joe! ;)
The Donald is making Will’s wig spin and I love it!
George Will’s wife is a GOPe consultant working for the Scott Walker campaign.
Unbiased reporting, right George?
Look up “Nancy Boy” in the dictionary, and I’m pretty sure you’ll find George Will’s picture next to the definition...
He nailed it ten thousand times better than I ever could. The best article I’ve read in years.
Wow, guys/gals of FR, this is turning into a real war between the RIGHT and the LEFT!!!
I must confess though to some surprise over how many RINO’s like George Will are crawling out of their dark, dank hiding place under the floor boards. It’s analogous I think to a “coming out of the closet” moment for a homosexual!
I believe we are truly witnessing the obliteration of the Old Guard in the Republican Party. I hope so anyway.