The Society for Corrosive Anachronism.
was only too happy to use his Washington Post column to sext the Hell out of the Teabaggers:
Tea Party would defeat Obama by supporting McConnell plan on debt
By George F. Will, Published: July 21
The Tea Party, the most welcome political development since the Goldwater insurgency in 1964, lacks only the patience necessary when America lacks the consensus required to propel fundamental change through our constitutional system of checks and balances. If Washington’s trajectory could be turned as quickly as Tea Partyers wish — while conservatives control only one-half of one of the two political branches — their movement would not be as necessary as it is. Fortunately, not much patience is required.
The Goldwater impulse took 16 years to reach fruition in the election of Ronald Reagan. The Tea Party can succeed in 16 months by helping elect a president who will not veto necessary reforms.
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Richard Miniter, a Forbes columnist, is right: “Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev.” Beneath the tattered, fading banner of reactionary liberalism, Obama struggles to sustain a doomed system. Democrats’ dependency agenda — swelling the ranks of government employees, multiplying government-subsidized industries, enveloping ever-more individuals in the entitlement culture — is buckling under an intractable contradiction: It is incompatible with economic growth sufficient to create enough wealth to feed the multiplying tax eaters.
Events are validating the Tea Partyers’ arguments. Time is on their side — but not on America’s, unless the impediment to reform is removed in 16 months.
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Ah, but that was all so long ago -- back in when when the world was young Mr. Will was a mere barefoot boy with cheek of tan -- and (as one long-forgotten wag once noted) rough winds do shake the Randite Dudes of May.
Now, the Base of Mr. Will's party has shown themselves once again to be exactly the same ratbag of bigots and snake-handlers the have always been, by flitting from one Republican sideshow freak to another before alighting on the hardest hater of the bunch.
So five months later, what does Mr. Will think of the wisdom of his beloved orc horde as revealed by their ardent choice of standard bearer for Mr. Will's party?
And now that Baron Grifthausen appears to be closing the deal?DELAY THE CORONATION
December 5, 2011Republicans are more conservative than at any time since their 1980 dismay about another floundering president. They are more ideologically homogenous than ever in 156 years of competing for the presidency. They anticipated choosing between Mitt Romney, a conservative of convenience, and a conviction politician to his right. The choice, however, could be between Romney and the least conservative candidate, Newt Gingrich.
Romney's main objection to contemporary Washington seems to be that he is not administering it. God has 10 commandments, Woodrow Wilson had 14 points, Heinz had 57 varieties, but Romney's economic platform has 59 planks -- 56 more than necessary if you have low taxes, free trade and fewer regulatory burdens. Still, his conservatism-as-managerialism would be a marked improvement upon today's bewildered liberalism.
Gingrich, however, embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive. And there is his anti-conservative confidence that he has a comprehensive explanation of, and plan to perfect, everything.
Granted, his grandiose rhetoric celebrating his "transformative" self is entertaining...There is almost artistic vulgarity in Gingrich's unrepented role as a hired larynx for interests profiting from such government follies as ethanol and cheap mortgages....
His temperament -- intellectual hubris distilled -- makes him blown about by gusts of enthusiasm for intellectual fads, from 1990s futurism to "Lean Six Sigma" today. On election eve 1994, he said a disturbed South Carolina mother drowning her children "vividly reminds" Americans "how sick the society is getting, and how much we need to change things. ... The only way you get change is to vote Republican." Compare this grotesque opportunism -- tarted up as sociology -- with his devious recasting of it in a letter to the Nov. 18, 1994, Wall Street Journal. And remember his recent swoon over the theory that "Kenyan, anti-colonial" thinking explains Barack Obama.
Gingrich, who would have made a marvelous Marxist, believes everything is related to everything else and only he understands how.
From "This Week..." today:
AMANPOUR: And yet you, George, have been saying that they should give a Jon Huntsman a serious, second look. I mean, you're not happy that are you that Gingrich is as you say now the solid front-runner.
WILL: I don't have a dog in this fight...
Not to worry.
The minute one of the candidates starts to look like a mortal lock, I'm sure Mr. Will will come slithering back to explain how he knew it all along, how its great news for John McCain, and how all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
After all, its not like anyone ever holds these goons to account for anything they say.
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Amen Drifty!
After all, its not like anyone ever holds these goons to account for anything they say.
This says it all. And remains a major foundation of the problem of our ignorant, brainwashed, apathetic, cynical, selfish electorate. I once thought that when "The People" came to realize they were being boiled, they jump from the pot. Yet there they sat. Then I thought once the heat became so high, and the complete treachery so obvious, they would rise up with righteous fury and terrible anger. But, at ~10%+ unemployment, millions of foreclosures and far less bread for 3 years running, there is only some small amount of movement -- and much, much more DWTS, Idol and TV "reality" to add to the ongoing circuses.
So the pressure builds. Maybe another sacrificial MOTU will be thrown into the pit? But, I've almost completely given up that we'll see a great majority - the silent majority that must know something is wrong - make a stand and take action against this media foundation of our current woes. After all, where would they get their gnews and opinions then?
Sigh. What the elites fail to understand is that their way leads to revolutionary activity. When folks get too fed up, too propagandized, and too angry, then some are going to take a tar & feather ride on the rail.
I only hope the deserved right ones make the trip.
RP
Yes...George haz a sad, and devoutly wishes for a brokered convention. I hear Joe Lieberman has some time on his hands...
George Will: "Look up pompous ass in the dictionary - there will be a picture of George Will."
Remember the MFOTUs have studied History too, and are working hard to keep Americans fairly complacent and quiet. I suppose reality shows and easier access to "porn" via cable TV, not to mention Fox news, helps keep us feeling angry but helpless.
A danger of OWS is that its empowering people, or making them feel less helpless, which the MFOTUs do NOT want. So they use military tactics against peaceful demonstrators to frighten Americans and return them to the perfect state of passive powerlessness.
"How is it that so many Liberals can see all of this so clearly and $o few Con$ervative$ can $ee it at all?"
Compartmentalization. Perhaps you might spend some time working up solutions to it.
Eurotrib has a good lead post on it now.
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