Posted on 03/29/2018 6:58:16 AM PDT by lowbuck
Whether or not George or others agree with it, the president has done his best to enact the program the voters approved when they elected him. He has appointed judges who believe they should carry out the law and not the current political reinterpretation of what that great paragon of modern liberal jurisprudence Eliot Spitzer described as “a flexible constitution.” . . . snip
The Iran agreement was insane: It gave Iran ten years to become a nuclear power, if it chooses to honor the porous and ineffectual monitoring program the treaty provides. But the agreement covers only fissile material, not the Iranian missile program or Iran’s development of a nuclear warhead compact enough to be delivered by a missile, and both of these activities are proceeding apace. . . snip
I commend to my hand-wringing friends the wisdom of dual citizen (Australian and American) Nicole Kidman, who advised her Hollywood peers to have some respect for the elected president and some understanding that if he does well, the country does well.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
George Will, the liberal’s idea of a conservative....the Conservative’s idea of a liberal..................
A very refreshing read ..... it’s about time someone took George Will behind the ‘woodshed’ and administered a thrashing.
It was a very good article, even if I did cringe every time he referenced the alleged towering intellect of America’s premier wedgie victim, George Will.
“...alleged towering intellect...”
Will’s intellect turned into arrogance and he turned into a puristic petulant pissant.
Tell me that Will is suffering from mad cow and I will not argue. But, George will was a prodigious intellect, and a formidable public speaker, like it or not. Few would care to share the stage with Will in debate or compete with him to be listened to. And among those who argued that you should decline an invitation to share a stage with Will were the Buckleys.
Touche.
But that has changed, now, with the appointment of NeoCons to two key positions: State and NSA.
It has been bad times for the NeoCons since Bush replaced Rumsfeld with Bob Gates. But reading Conrad Blacks article, I got the impression that he was on the verge of an orgasm.
love Conrad Black’s take on all things Trump - and he’s a great writer. Curious that he has been banished to appearing only in the New York Sun?
Excellent piece. Thanks for posting.
I had to stop watching Fox News Sunday because I did not want to see the rattlesnake-like mindless anti-Trump fury that animated his face.
I fully agree. Hell hath no fury like a narcissist spurned. Why can't we stupid peasants defer to his brilliance?
He also contributes to the National Post (http://nationalpost.com/). Just search by name from time to time.
Most excellent writer and, like many of us, has been in Trump’s corner from the start.
This was a tremendous article. Thank you for posting it!
Boy, you realize how far things have fallen when someone makes a commonsense statement like that, and you want to stand up and cheer!
If you scroll to the bottom of the article, it says it is actually published at National Review, but there it is under a different title, "Will and Haass vs. Trump
George Will is a brilliant conservative — in his own mind. But his fatal flaw, what the Greeks called a “hamartia,” has always been this: He views conservatism as an intellectual exercise, and fails to acknowledge the muscle it flexes in a principled lifestyle grounded in individual liberty, quite apart from extraneous appearances of conservatism. Will loves the appearance of being a conservative, but he has been late to the party since dismissing Reagan as a “doddering” old man - before finally claiming the mantle or a Reaganaut after the hard work of conservatism had been proven by Reagan’s conservative acumen. He was a latecomer to the Reagan revolution, arriving after the revolutionaries had already claimed victory in the battle.
Will, to my view, deals with “conservative” positions from an arm’s length, never delving into details on why opposing abortion or big government, etc., is like thrusting light at a vampire. To Will, such issues shall never trouble his musings, lest he be forced to articulate the intellectual justification of living as a conservative.
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