Will was a personal friend of Reagan. As for Palin, what he said is silly considering the people we have elected over the last twenty years, including the current President.
I don’t see any evidence that Palin would be rash. Will should oppose her on policy, stamina and current political realities. In other words he has shown he can do better.
For all the Palin worshipers on here, George Will is a conservative. An Edmund Burke, Ronald Reagan conservative.
Will doesn't represent Conservative core beliefs. In listening to him interviewed last week by Laura Ingraham, he doesn't even like Conservatives.
Regardless, what's amazing to me is how many people have been exposed in the past couple of years as FAUX Conservatives. If nothing else, this is one thing the rise of the Tea Party has accomplished.
Will was NOT in favor of Ronald Reagan until a wee bit before Reagan was elected in ‘80. He was for Howard Baker and then G.H.W.Bush during the primaries and was a Johnny-come-lately to Reagan’s side.
i appreciate your points. many years ago, Will was one of my favorites.
...but i haven’t read him much in years. yes, he is a conservative. but i see him now as one of the elitists, who simply wants a big CONSERVATIVE government to fix societies problems.
Reagan wanted to do away with big parts, like Dept of Ed. ...what does Will wish to get rid of ?
similarly, i used to adore Krauthammer. but he’s said things in the past year, i can’t believe.
...at best, they both are out of touch with their roots.
I wouldn’t trade Diana West, or Walter E Williams, for both of them together.
Will supported Howard Baker in 1980 and did everything possible to stop Reagan. Her became “a personal friend of Reagan” only after Reagan won the nomination.
George Will is far more of an establishment Republican than a conservative.He supported the Panama Canal deal and opposes the 2nd Amendment.
“Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.”
George F. Will
WOW!! That’s my kind of conservative.
Will is no conservative,,, he’s a name dropping insider low-life who couldn’t wait to host the infamous “conservatives party with Obama” dinner party.
Open mouth. Insert foot.
George Will is a thingy with ears.
I disagree with most of your thinking that Palin would not be a problem. I scares me that getting the job as president does not include the simple vetting that a police officer, FBI agent or even a worker in a high level financial job would receive. If your elected president do you need to summit to drug testing, psych evaluations, lie detector tests, background test, neighbor and friend questionings; too my knowledge this level of basic testing testing dose not happen if your elected president.
Without such testing how can we be assured that said person will not snap and push the button because the stress off office got to be too much? Palin in her only other political job (under 2 years)simply quit when the stress of all that litigation concerning her misuse of office got to be too much, so who is to say that the dingbat wont push the button?
People don’t pick a president, gawd does.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11trooper.html
William F. Buckley was a friend of Reagan. Try to find much in Reagan’s papers about George Will prior to 1980; you won’t. After the election, well, what is to be expected.
William F. Buckley was a friend of Reagan. Paul Laxalt was a friend of Reagan. His Kitchen Cabinet (Meese, Tuttle, Smith, etc.) were all friends. Will...not so much.