Posted on 04/04/2015 6:28:21 AM PDT by cotton1706
I’m continually amazed by how conservatives continue to see their hapless pursuit of the Presidency as the fault of media critics and some vague but all powerful cabal of Republican Elites.
Apparently, these evil foes of conservatism can steal primaries and elections by some mysterious means, leaving a party of true conservatives standing around with their thumbs up their butts, whining about the results of elections.
WAKE UP! This pattern of conservative losses isn’t caused by malevolent forces, but by candidates who can’t articulate the conservative message well enough to motivate voters to select them.
Never trust somebody who does not EVER smile.
In fact, once-upon-a-time George Will himself said this (in 1974 after the Democratic sweep of the congressional elections) about Ronald Reagan when the subject was raised about a 1976 Reagan run for president:
But Reagan is 63, and looks it. His hair is still remarkably free of gray, but around the mouth and neck he looks like an old man. He’s never demonstrated substantial national appeal. His hardcore support today consists primarily of the kamikaze conservatives who thought the 1964 Goldwater campaign was jolly fun. And there’s a reason to doubt that Reagan is well suited to appeal to the electorate that just produced a Democratic landslide.I thought Will jumped the shark a few years ago, but apparently he's always been a Unicrat, or establishment Republican.
The Wills of the GOP hate the cocktail parties they go to when the libtards aren’t running things.
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They love the luxuries of Big Government and corruption, something which the Democrats are good at delivering.
I WISH that liberals like Lindsay Graham, Oral Hatch, John McLame, Susan Collins, and Jeff Flake would disappear!
Excellent article. Is there some way we can get up a petition calling for George Will to read this and respond?
Flake was originally a young Goldwater accolyte of sorts, and he is now voting as thinks Barry would in 2015.
Nancy Davis Reagan for some strange reason is or was an admirer of Mr. Will.
Good, let him focus on baseball and leave the rest of us alone!
Absolutely, I always enjoy his columns. That place Conservative Review (http://www.conservativereview.com/) has a lot of great articles, and their Scorecards seem to be the most useful to me.
Bkmk
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