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Ya-ta Boy
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 Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:23 am Post subject: George Will: McCain not suited to be president! |
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McCain's Queen of Hearts Intervention
WASHINGTON -- Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama...
Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.
It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccains_temperment_fails_again.html
McCain is in trouble. You can't have a leading conservative who appears regularly on TV and writes regularly in newspapers going around saying you are unsuited to the job of president because of personality flaws. I think this one is a telling blow.
Is George Will the first rat of note to abandon the sinking ship? |
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Gatsby
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| McCain is in trouble. You can't have a leading conservative who appears regularly on TV and writes regularly in newspapers going around saying you are unsuited to the job of president because of personality flaws. I think this one is a telling blow. |
Sure you can, if your supporters don't read newspapers or watch television.
Sarah Palin's supporters don't read the Commie-Moderate Media Establishment, and they don't watch mainstream television; they watch Christian broadcasting and get their news from their pastor.
And George Will hasn't been a conservative icon for ages; he has sold out to the Moderate Media Moguls of the world. He is one of those intellectuals who believes in thinking. He probably even blinks when he thinks.
Palin supporters don't believe in blinking, because blinking leads to thinking.
On the other hand, real economic conservatives are pretty disgusted with George Bush, and they have essentially nothing in common with someone like Palin. Real conservatives are nearly extinct, though. Palin's type have kicked them out of the GOP.
And good riddence, I say. What this country needs to solve our problems is a good, strong dictator, a team like McCain-Palin. Look what fascism did for Germany's economy in the 1930s.
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Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Republican-Christian Party. No atheists or moderates allowed. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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The GOP has a rather pragmatic, if anemic, faction that has been sidelined much of the time. Probably scared silly by their allies in the evangelical wing. While you may be right about where the evangelicals get their news (Hell, I get mine from Steven Colbert), and they won't even be aware of what Will said, the other wing will.
I'll venture to say that Will and McCain come from the same wing of the Republican Party. A notable figure in that wing has just publically stated McCain isn't suited for the presidency. Conclusion: McCain is in trouble with his own wing for attacking another member of that same wing. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'll venture to say that Will and McCain come from the same wing of the Republican Party. A notable figure in that wing has just publically stated McCain isn't suited for the presidency. Conclusion: McCain is in trouble with his own wing for attacking another member of that same wing. |
George Will is a Constitutionalist Libertarian Con. McCain is an Military-First Authoritarian Con. Neither are particularly religiously inclined, but one shouldn't confuse them as in similar cadres for that reason. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Ummm, McCain is in the regular-tie-wearing wing and Will is in the bow-tie-wearing wing. This fundamental difference is perhaps the Republicans best illustration of a big tent party. In past years watching them reach across the aisle and cooperate in spite of their differences has been a truly inspiring thing.
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| George Will is a...Con. McCain is an...Con. |
I've never seen you be so harsh as to call Republicans cons before. I don't think it's true of George Will. I think he always tells the truth as he sees it. McCain not so much. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Ummm, McCain is in the regular-tie-wearing wing and Will is in the bow-tie-wearing wing. This fundamental difference is perhaps the Republicans best illustration of a big tent party. In past years watching them reach across the aisle and cooperate in spite of their differences has been a truly inspiring thing.
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| George Will is a...Con. McCain is an...Con. |
I've never seen you be so harsh as to call Republicans cons before. I don't think it's true of George Will. I think he always tells the truth as he sees it. McCain not so much. |
Conservatives can tell the truth as they see it.
McCain has been a meticulous cultivator of the image as Maverick ever since Keating Five. George Will is just a columnist, and is *actually* Conservative, unlike the radical right-wingers who call themselves Conservatives, so, yeah, he surprises people on the Left sometimes with his intellectual integrity. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I am in agreement that McCain is sometimes a 'con' artist. I was making a pun about you calling both of them cons. |
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