Whose payroll is Will really on???
Sometimes George Will is very insightful and has a lot of good points to make.
This is not one of those times. George Will doesn’t get that this election cycle is different from the ones that preceded it, because conservatives are not going to play the “vote for the most conservative RINO game anymore.
George, you’re either on the train or you’re on the tracks. Jeb Bush is NO conservative, and he’s going nowhere. And neither are you, it seems.
George Will is not the brightest bulb in Lowes. Cruz is running a populist campaign that will attract blue collar voters from across the spectrum. He will isolate the Chamber of Congress and Big Business that has gotten fat on QE while blue collar wages have fallen. They used to be called Reagan democrats and Cruz is focussed on them like a lazer beam, so to speak.
We tried it your way, George, in 2008 and 2012.
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
FUGW
What Will misses is that working class Republicans don't care about tax cuts or new entitlements programs for upper income people. They do care about amnesty and gay marriage.
Wrong comparison. Lyndon Johnson was carrying on for the slain Kennedy of Camelot. No republican was going to win that one.
A better comparison is conservative Reagan following the disastrous liberal Jimmy Carter.
Perhaps he hasn't heard that Senator Mark Kirk has announced that he is supporting Loretta Lynch for attorney general, thus assuring her nomination.
George, you are so . . . well, this guy says it best.
Georgie is deeply troubled he couldn’t talk Romney into running. His perfect candidate.
Pray America is waking
For goodness sakes George would you please get outside of DC to talk to real conservatives and real Americans, and not the money grubbing, elitist idiots you spend time with there.
Will brings up 1964 and ignores 1980 and 1984.
Perhaps he's losing his shorter term memory.
Since when has George Will ever been a conservative??? How conveniently he forgets R. Reagan...go back to writing about baseball
True to a point. The GOP is never going to be conservative. Even a Cruz nomination, which is devoutly to be wished, won't do that.
That said, if the people are to have even the remotest chance of saving this nation, a conservative must be the next Republican nominee.
I see Rove is working his spin this week. He wrote a similar article using equally subject polling numbers.
“George Will missed the Reagan Revolution not only in 1976 but as late as 1980. In the 1979 Republican Presidential Primary, his first choice was Howard Baker, his second choice was George H. W. Bush, and his third choice was Reagan. Not until days before the 1980 general election did he write on November 3, 1980 that Reagan deserved election. For all his wonderful columns, the Republican electorate better understood the needs of the nation and the excellence of a potential Reagan presidency than Will. It is hard to believe he was so wrong about a matter of such great import, despite Reagan’s presence on the national scene for many years.” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2727010/posts
Has George been smoking some wacky weed ?
“Cruz sits in a Senate that has no Republicans akin to the liberals Goldwater served with ...”
George Will needs to retire.
“Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was born in 1970, six years after events refuted a theory on which he is wagering his candidacy”
WTF are you talking about George Will? I guess you’re so much more historically eriudite than the rest of us yokels that we cannot recognize context in depth like such a genius as yourself. FUGW POS.
Your so much better than the rest of us and we cannot even begin to comprehend the depth of your analysis.
ASSHOLE
What would Will walk and talk like if a good surgeon finally extracted the large pinecone trapped in his lower colon?? Will the world ever know?
Back to his argument. Cruz is trying to ignite constitutional conservatives. Will thinks these are the wrong people to fire up. Will says that the biggest bloc of R voters are the mushy middles, the low info voters. The ones who, presumably, went to the polls the last two elections. Where was George?
Numbers, states, which group always backs the winner? Will is still playing Blue Team vs. Red Team. Every constitutional conservative in the country is done with the sports metaphor for presidential elections. We don’t have a team. We want the country to return to a free republic, and we don’t care what the candidate who fights for it is called.
Will acts so high and informed, but he just wants his Red Jerseys to win. His bread is buttered. These Beltway Statists are actually the low info people. Conservatives today are fighting for the survival of the republic, both teams be damned.