Will's
column yesterday begins like this:
Time was, the Baltimore Orioles manager was Earl Weaver, a short, irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, as he frequently was, would shout at an umpire, "Are you going to get any better or is this it?" With, mercifully, only one debate to go, that is the question about John McCain's campaign.
In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican. Before Tuesday night's uneventful event, gall was fueling what might be the McCain-Palin campaign's closing argument. It is less that Obama has bad ideas than that Obama is a bad person.
And:
Obama is competitive in so many states that President Bush carried in 2004 — including Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado and New Mexico — it is not eccentric to think he could win at least 350 of the 538 electoral votes.
Remember. This is George Will writing. If you got a problem with it, take it up with him.
5 comments:
This is off topic, but you know what's hysterical?
Listening to Sarah Palin demand that someone answer questions.
Priceless.
This is also off topic, but I hope some of our resident wingers can answer my questions:
1) Why is it okay for McCain to associate with former North Vietnames military officials - those who not only tortured him but many of our other soldiers?
2) Before your anger gets out of hand and this tough rhetoric leads to something far worse, will the wingers reveal that the charity Ayers and Obama sat on was founded by Walter Annenberg, a former ambassador and good friend of Ronald Reagan? Will they acknowledge that other Republicans who served on that charity have condemned these attacks as nonsense? One Republican who has worked with Ayers is the current governor of South Carolina - will the wingers call him a terrorist? will Sarah Palin supporters cry out to kill him too?
Right now, and this gets back to Will's column, we are seeing a battel within the Republican Party.
On one side, you have David Frum, David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer and George Will - conservatives that believe in ideas.
And on the other side, you have the mindless know-nothing-ism reflected by Sarah Palin and the base of the Republican party.
What happened to the Republican Party of William F. Buckley that believed in knowledge and ideas and intellectualism?
The great conservative minds that built the modern conservative movement are losing to the violent thugs we've seen on display this week.
John K: George Will is on of those people who call themselves conservatives all the while blasting conservative principles. David Brooks of the NY Times is another one. Some conservatives crave recognition by liberals. Makes them feel accepted and gets them invited to all the lefty Christmas parties. On the other side Specter is one of those liberals who likes to think of himself as a conservative. So we have Will blasting McCan to the delight of Olbermouth. Big deal. (YAWN) anything else going on?
John K: Uhh it is Limbaugh and Hannity and Quinn and Ingraham etc who are the voice of the conservatives. The left loved it when conservatives sat around in rooms, smoking cigars and discussing the conservative movement among themselves. One magazine was fine. Afer all it allowed lefties like Ayers to influence legislation. But then along came Limbaugh and he moved the movement into the face of the left. Without violence I might add. And they have hated that ever since. LOL LOL LOL Not only are we going to be in your face, we are going to be there every day. LOL LOL LOL LMAO
So the conservative movement is essentially composed of mean girls, according to John K. Snarking about how Obama is an egghead, how he pretends to be better than everyone else when in fact he is a terrorist who wants to make everyone a muslim communist.
This is what the conservatives offer as a theory of government? Of course, it kinda worked for Reagan, except that Reagan saddled us with huge debt (yes, stagflation was fixed during Reagan's term, but that was the Fed, right?).
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