George Will is unhappy

[ilpostino]

Temperatures on the rise
By George F. Will
Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Thursday, July 24, 2003
WASHINGTON -- This is the summer of conservatives' discontent. Conservatism has been disoriented by events in the last several weeks. Cumulatively, foreign and domestic developments constitute an identity crisis of conservatism, which is being recast -- and perhaps rendered incoherent...

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/will/story/7080251p-8028158c.html"

[Romulus]

1. he'll get over it

the unstable ones always forget what happened ten minutes ago . . .

[kstewart33]

2. Uh oh, I read something by George Will

I have steadfastly refused to read anything by Mr. Will who reminds me of my fifth grade teacher lecturing me on what and how to think, before I began to think.

What a pompous, wordy-beyond-words, stuffed shirt. With a bow tie, of course.

[Skittles]

6. yes

and he always looks like he just found a pubic hair in his soup. A permanent grimace of sorts.

[Jivenwail]

3. George Will SUCKS

I can't stand that moron. And he owes the entire country an apology for his wanton lust and drool over the Bush claims on WMD in Iraq on the march to war. He vehemently discredited the two Senators who went to Iraq and said that Bush would mislead the country over the WMD issue. Come on George, where's all that macho crap now?????

Can't hear you, George. Speak up real loud...

[yellowcanine]

4. "and perhaps rendered incoherent"

as if conservatism, at least the type expressed by George Will, isn't incoherent already. Remember when you were against term limits, Georgie? And then for them? and now against them again? funny how that works.

[SnowGoose]

5. Wasn't it George Will who said

before the 2000 election, that if Al Gore lost the popular vote but won in the electoral college that the college would have to be done away with?

And then, after the election, didn't he say that elimination of the electoral college would be a terrible mistake?

Hmmm.

[burythehatchet]

7. NEVER EVER EVER

trust a dude who believes that his bowtie is a positive fashion statement.

[DemoTex]

8. George Will is costive. He is crapulent.

He needs an enema and a straight whiskey.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. LOL. well that sums it up for me!

[JackSwift]

10. Will is a scold of a conservative,

a common receiver of stolen goods (the Carter briefing binders), an intellectual lightweight and a bore. He's made a living using logical fallacies on his uneducated audience attacking the ruling party for differences in policies which he equates to mistakes.

Like most conservatives, now that they control all three branches of the federal government, they have abandoned the principles of conservativism. They encouage corporate lawlessness, destroy public resources, and continue the costly military industrial complex and launch wars of adventure, all the while hiding the policy making process behind reflexive secrecy. Having come into majority status by gerrymandering they seem unprepared to enact their agenda, but rather seem intent on proving that they were projecting their ugly id's on their opponents. While Democrats certainly did commit sins and make their share of mistakes, Republicans criticized those mistakes and then unconsciously enshrined them as policy. Many of us are old enough to remember a generation of Republicans criticizing a generation of Democrats for running budget deficits. Every peacetime Democratic presidency has seen budgets increasingly brought under control. Every Republican administation has seen annual increases in deficits. And even though the Bush II administation is facing a war at a billion dollars a week, and an economic slowdown (technically not a recession despite President Bush's confusion on the issue), the deficits should not be over $100 billion a year. The huge federal borrowing sucks all capital out of the economy, strangling investment growth: Bush has given huge tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy, only to suck it all back up in federal debt.

The current conservatism in Washington cannot last. It's unconscious and pervasive incompetence is finally frustrating its corporate sponsors, its religious fanatics and conservative true believers. They have almost come to the conclusion that they need to clean up their act: to eliminate the lacadasical incompetence. While liberals have long mocked Republicans as the party that believes government cannot work and then prove it when they get elected, it is a truism that stings. When you believe that government is lazy and inept, you may come by that belief honestly, through your experience.

Look for a struggle between those in power and traditional conservative activists. Reality is where the rubber hits the road, and running the largest government the world has ever seen is incredibly hard to do. Propaganda cannot fool a majority of the people indefinitely in a free society.

[ilpostino]

11. Gossip anyone?

Anyone know the details of Will's apparently messy split with his wife--a Repub speechwriter?