Posted on 03/02/2012 6:28:27 AM PST by KansasGirl
Columnist George Will says the 2012 presidential looks like it might be a lost cause for Republicans and believes that the primary goal of conservatives should be to retain control of the House and win the Senate so Congress can restrain President Barack Obama while the GOP grooms its talent for 2016.
“Romney and Rick Santorum… are conservatives, although of strikingly different stripes. Neither, however, seems likely to be elected… If either is nominated, conservatives should vote for him,” Will writes in his upcoming Sunday column, obtained in advance by POLITICO.
However, Will argues, that control of both house of Congress is more attainable and more important.
“[T]here would come a point when… conservatives turn their energies to a goal much more attainable than… electing Romney or Santorum president. It is the goal of retaining control of the House and winning control of the Senate.. [C]onservatives this year should have as their primary goal making sure Republicans wield all the gavels in Congress in 2013,” writes Will.
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Will's spine is made of pasta. That's the reason that he is the token conservative for the Washington ComPost.
Last fall, he stuck his nose into Pennsylvania politics to help our Quisling GOP Chairman kill a very logical proposal which would have allocated Pennsylvania's electoral votes on the same basis as Maine and Nebraska: one for each congressional district, two for the statewide winner.
We have solid GOP majorities in both houses and GOP governor who said he would sign it. The best thing which could have happened this year is for BO to win four or five of our commonwealth's 20 electoral votes. Then we could have said "See! It benefited you." The peripheral help it would have given down ballot candidates in not having to compete with chronic voter fraud in Philadelphia would have been incalculable. But George Will helped p*ss away a golden opportunity. He should stick to writing about baseball, a topic which he actually knows something about.
We need to get rid of Obama and replace him with a tru conservative, AND we need to get true conservatives into Congress. Until we do, America will continue to be bled dry.
Who gives a rat’s ass what George Will has to say?
He has never impressed me as any great thinker.
His voice is only amplified - because he presents the point of view his owners want amplified.
Why are these geriatrics never replaced? When did “columnist” become a tenure position?
Never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.
Much of his voter base doesn't own a car, so they don't care about the price of gasoline, and the unemployment rate in their families has been 100% for generations, so they don't care about that either.
Will just confirming what Limbaugh told us eight weeks ago.
The GOP establishment has already run up the white flag on beating Obama and is just concerned with regaining control of the spending levers in Congress.
George Will-—isn’t he the current version of Al Hunt? Will never really had conservative credtials from my perspective but he did write a fair book about baseball
In England, during the Blitz, it was suggested to the Queen that she should send her children out of London for their own safety.
Her response was "The children are not leaving without me. I am not leaving without the King. The King is not leaving."
I will not flee.
I refer you to Samuel Adams:
...depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
I already know that I will not vote for Romney in 2012.
George will is just a ball of fun.
We shouldn’t have to tell George Will that in the US the president controls the political agenda. It’s his football.
The Republicans tried under Speaker Gingrich to seize the agenda from Bill Clinton. It worked for a few months, but with the Media on his side Clinton was able to slowly regain the initiative. I don’t see John Boehner doing any better should the Republicans gain majorities in both Houses.
Then there’s the problem of moderate Republicans. They hold the center of gravity, politically-speaking. They have shown a willingness to bolt the party on critical issues and support a Democrat president. So holding a majority together in the Senate has always been problematic.
“The other guy is driving us towards the cliff at 100 mph” is not a reason to vote for the guy who will only drive us towards the cliff at 80 mph.
I’d rather be stabbed in the front by my known enemy than in the back by someone who’s allegedly my ally.
Sorry george, I have no intent of looking at Moochbutt’s repugnant face for the next 4 years, no do I itned to give Obama 4 -OR MORE- unanswerable years.
exactly -— a no show or a write in is the same as a vote for obama -— and forty years of a communist supreme court led by chief justice sotomayor -— iow -— the end of America.
Even if the Reps control Congress, Obamacare will be implemented. It is game over this country if we have four more years of Obama.
Anyone who is a perinnial Chicago Cubs fan is NOT in a position to decide who is a winner at ANYTHING!
Unless the Reps have veto proof majorities in Congress, the Obama agenda now in place, including Obamacare, Green Energy, massive deficits, etc. will continue to go forward. The WH will continue to have the final say on all legislation. It is one thing to stop new items from being added to the Obama agenda, but it is another to roll back the damage he has already done.
The only problem with this thinking is Obama is morphing into a defacto dictator with his stated goal of going around Congress.
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