[Twodees]

How cute. Little Georgie Will presumes to tell conservatives that we should be pleased with his idol. Will is a liberal republican like Bush and should never be mistaken for a conservative. He and that medicated bliss bunny, Peggy Noonan, are blights on conservative punditry. People should wake up and realize that the mainstream media is communist controlled. For that reason, any "conservative" allowed regular access to it is a fraud.

[texlok]

Which is why conservatives in the capital should be more like conservatives across the country: on balance, quite pleased

I think he means more liberal and complacent.

[Teacher317]

George Will is a great columnist, a great thinker, and is correct that Bush, on balance, has been a good president, but I'll still fret over every decision he makes (like CFR)... eternal vigilance, and all that.

[uncbob]

He knows which delusional advisers mistakenly assured him that if he issued commands to all parties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he would be obeyed.

Can't be
We have been assured by posters and analysts here at Free Republic that it was all an act ( with Israel in on it ) for the world and arab states

[kaylar]

As of yet, GWB has not unsigned the ICC treaty. The ICC is in direct conflict with both our Constitution (because it claims to supersede our laws and courts) and the UN treaty (because it applies to nonsignatory nonratifying countries). If he does not unsign this treaty and make it plain that he intends to protect both the Constitutional rights of US citizens as well as the national sovereignty of the USA, then any arguments over whther GWB is a conservative will be settled permanently. This must be done, now, before another WJC enters the WH and uses the lack of action on the ICC as an excuse to comply with it...The sort of compliance WJC used to display in regrad to even unratified UN treaties.

[redrock]

LOL!!!

George Will to everybody...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....just step in line and do as your told...after all...it's for your own good.

redrock

p.s....George..the answer is no.

[otterpond]

Bush is, second only to Ronald Reagan and not second by much, the most conservative president in living memory.

I guess Mr. Will has forgotten Richard Nixon.

[tacticalogic]

The conservatism that defined itself in reaction against the New Deal -- minimal government conservatism -- is dead.

Inside the Beltway, maybe.

[SuziQ]

Judging by his nominees so far, Bush will splendidly staff the federal judiciary (half of it, if he serves two terms), but not until Republicans control the Senate

The folks who are bitching and moaning about how Bush has 'let them down' because he hasn't been conservative enough would do well to remember Will's statement above. They should use some of that energy to get out and work for Republican candidates to the Senate. We HAVE to get the majority back and get hold of the Committees again. Until then, Bush will be stymied at every turn by the likes of Little Tommy Daschle and 'Senator Depends' Leahy!

[Kermit]

George Will wrote a book: "Statecraft as Soulcraft". Basically, he advocated the State molding human souls. Will has been in DC too long, I say term limits for journalists. Bob Novak is about the only columnist, who's gotten more conservative the longer he's been in DC. I forgive Novak his Israel exception.

[victim soul]

This conservative is very troubled by the following story:

U.S. to help U.N. redefine 'families'

MGeorge Archibald,THE WASHINGTON TIMES

http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=20020422-67 480Published 4/22/2002

The Bush administration has joined European delegates to an upcoming U.N. summit on children in moving to recognize families "in various forms," including unmarried cohabiting couples and homosexual partners.

[Cable225]

But some conservatives, addicted to disgruntlement, still have the oppositional mentality that characterized conservatism between the coming of Franklin Roosevelt and the departure of Jimmy Carter. In that era, conservatives felt doomed to perpetual disappointment as marginal critics of an uncongenial political culture.

George Will must be spending more time at FR than he lets on. He summarizes the "line-in-the-sand" crowd here pretty well.

[finnman69]

Great article from the most intelligent and eloquent conservative commentator alive.

[antidemocommie]

Ahhh, with the poll numbers now in the 60s, fear has taken over. Suddenly, Conservatives count in D.C.

[jimt]

George, pop your head out. Read my lips.

[Texbob]

What a load of crap! A conservative did not write this article, it has liberal written all over it.