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July 05, 2010

Hey, You Know Who Seems To Like Sharron Angle? George Will
— DrewM

The most populist of major candidates in a populist year seems to charm the bow-tie wearing Dean of conservative opinion columnists!

Can a David Brooks endorsement be far behind?

When her son was depressed about having to repeat kindergarten -- "He was a 6-year-old dropout" -- she decided on home schooling, which Nevada law permitted. But a judge construed the law to require that parents who home-school must live at least 50 miles from a public school.
She and many kindred spirits descended on Carson City to get the Legislature to correct this. One legislator, irritated by such grass-roots impertinence, said, "If I'd known there would be 500 people here instead of 50 and it would take five hours instead of 30 minutes, I would have thrown it [the legislation] in my drawer, and it would never have seen the light of day." Angle asked a cowboy standing next to her, "Can he do that?" The cowboy said yep. She has been politically incandescent ever since.
Even when asked where she was born, she is on message: "I was conceived in Lovelock [Nevada] but -- if you're not pro-life -- I was born in Klamath Falls [Oregon]." During her four terms in Nevada's 42-seat Assembly, many votes were "41-to-Angle." She wears as a badge of honor having been voted Nevada's worst legislator, a disparagement she says is always bestowed on a conservative because the voters are members of the press and the political class (the legislators and their staff).

One can only conclude from this column she must like baseball and despise grown men who wear jeans.

Will is about as mainstream and establishment a conservative as you are going to find and he seems a bit smitten with Angle and her candidacy.

I know Will has fallen out of favor with some conservatives over the years, in part because of his opposition to the Iraq war but also as a long tenure in DC has become a liability in the modern media world. Still, for those of us of a certain age, there was a time before cable took off when Will was pretty much the only conservative fighting the fight on national TV. I don't think anyone would call him anti-intellectual or a populist, yet he's clearly intrigued with the most populist of the tea party candidates.

Right after he primary victory, Angle's website was a mess (it only had a donation link). It's since been updated.

Posted by: DrewM at 12:32 PM | Comments (120)
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1 I cannot endorse Angle since she doesn't wear pants, and hence I cannot tell if they are creased or not.

Posted by: David Brooks at July 05, 2010 12:35 PM (gLNLT)

2 I know Will has fallen out of favor with some conservatives over the years, in part because of his opposition to the Iraq war but also as a long tenure in DC has become a liability in the modern media world.

Will fell out of favor with conservatives when he became more of a Lindsey Graham conservative and less of a Barry Goldwater conservative.

Posted by: Vic at July 05, 2010 12:36 PM (6taRI)

3 You know, I don't get behind one stinking war in the Mideast and suddenly I'm persona non grata amongst conservatives? What the hell is up with that shit?

Posted by: George Will at July 05, 2010 12:37 PM (gLNLT)

4 It's the bowties. I can't get over the bowties.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 12:37 PM (yBUvJ)

5

OMG, I'ts A Sharp Crease !! What Does It Mean !!

Posted by: David Brooks on LSD at July 05, 2010 12:37 PM (t72+4)

6 For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don't wear it. For women, substitute Grace Kelly.

Posted by: George Will actually did say this at July 05, 2010 12:39 PM (yBUvJ)

For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don't wear it. For women, substitute Grace Kelly.

That doesn't go for just women. I would happily have worn Grace Kelly.

Posted by: Cicero at July 05, 2010 12:42 PM (9hu1I)

8

I Love You All And Want To Lick Your Toes !

Posted by: BigWheelFox at July 05, 2010 12:42 PM (t72+4)

9 Perhaps George has sensed change in the wind?

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 12:42 PM (132iP)

10 Macacca!

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2010 12:42 PM (3nsLG)

11 4 It's the bowties. I can't get over the bowties. Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 04:37 PM (yBUvJ) Not to mention the worst rug since Howard Cosell. In fact, it may be Howard's rug.

Posted by: dr kill at July 05, 2010 12:42 PM (w9bVp)

12 She wears blue jeans and the deal is off!

Posted by: George Will at July 05, 2010 12:43 PM (IhQuA)

13 No way I am wearing that stupid thing he wore in An American in Paris, just not happening.

Posted by: kurtilator at July 05, 2010 12:43 PM (juh4Z)

14 Denim on the bourgeoisie is the wardrobe equivalent of driving a Hummer to a Whole Foods store -- discordant.

--George Will actively plagiarizing an equally bintish dickhead.

Posted by: George Will actually did say this at July 05, 2010 12:44 PM (yBUvJ)

Whoops! Forgot my George Allen sock...

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2010 12:44 PM (3nsLG)

16 George Will once killed a scallop just to watch it die.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 12:44 PM (132iP)

17 You can always count on George Will to give us relevant fashion tips that are completely on the money. If this were 1935 that is.

Posted by: Mamaluke at July 05, 2010 12:44 PM (gLNLT)

The first time I clicked, Drew, your link took me to a site promising me "Lonely Housewives" who want to meet me.

I guess whoever that was knows your target audience.

Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2010 12:44 PM (1kwr2)

I Love You All And Want To Lick Your Toes !

I invited my boyfriends over to watch the Tour de France. We all dress up in biker short and tight yellow t-shirts. We kick off the fun by doing body shots off each other.

Call me!

Posted by: Barney Frank at July 05, 2010 12:45 PM (UQ9jL)

20 Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances.

It's 90 degrees with 60 percent humidity. Perhaps he'd like a sniff of my ball sweat.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 12:45 PM (yBUvJ)

*waves 'hi' to Ms. Angle--Nevada's next Senator*

Go suck a dick, Harry.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 05, 2010 12:46 PM (IIQIM)

22 Go suck a dick, Harry.

And wear tweed.

Posted by: George Will at July 05, 2010 12:47 PM (yBUvJ)

23

I'm kinda interested on hearing Will's take on fat girls wearing corduroy pants.

Posted by: Blazer at July 05, 2010 12:47 PM (t72+4)

24 20 Fluid up. Heat emergency declared for the entire week.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 05, 2010 12:47 PM (IIQIM)

25 Denim is also the carefully calculated costume of people who plan to work outside.

Posted by: rabidfox at July 05, 2010 12:47 PM (vwN0q)

David Brooks can go set himself on fire and douse himself with the piss pouring out of his heat ruptured bladder.

I ever meet that guy in person, he's going to be carrying his teeth in his pocket.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 05, 2010 12:49 PM (P33XN)

27 Hey, you know who thinks George Will is a pretentious douchebag? Me.

Posted by: gebrauchshund at July 05, 2010 12:49 PM (d7k0J)

_{Go suck a dick, Harry.

And wear tweed.}

...and bring a bucket to sit on. It will save you a ton in Dry Cleaning costs, alone.

Posted by: Barney Frank at July 05, 2010 12:49 PM (3nsLG)

29 Today it is silly for Americans whose closest approximation of physical labor consists of loading their bags of clubs into golf carts to go around in public dressed for driving steers up the Chisholm Trail to the railhead in Abilene.

It is silly for beltway asslickers who have never actually seen a cow to give fashion tips.

After the collapse, he'll be begging for cucumbers while dressed in the best French twill.

And a bowtie, of course. Of Chinese silk.

Posted by: George Will at July 05, 2010 12:50 PM (yBUvJ)

Hey, You Know Who Seems To Like Sharron Angle?

Will Folks?

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at July 05, 2010 12:50 PM (YVZlY)

31 8 I Love You All And Want To Lick Your Toes !

BikerFox is Dick Morris?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 05, 2010 12:50 PM (9hSKh)

_{Fluid up. Heat emergency declared for the entire week.}

Can Do!

Posted by: Barney Frank at July 05, 2010 12:51 PM (3nsLG)

33 I'm kinda interested on hearing Will's take on fat girls wearing corduroy pants.

Beats rubbing two sticks together.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 12:51 PM (yBUvJ)

34 Denim on the bourgeoisie is the wardrobe equivalent of driving a Hummer to a Whole Foods store -- discordant.

What about getting a hummer at a Whole Foods store?

Posted by: Waterhouse at July 05, 2010 12:51 PM (gmjCg)

35 George is making a courageous stand against the overwhelming popularity of Harry Reid, President Ebola, and Democrat policies. As usual.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 12:51 PM (132iP)

36 it is a straight line from the fall of the Bastille to the rise of denim

Let them eat lead.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 12:52 PM (yBUvJ)

37 What about getting a hummer at a Whole Foods store?

Tastes like arugula.

Posted by: Larry Sinclair at July 05, 2010 12:52 PM (yBUvJ)

38 Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 04:51 PM (yBUvJ)

Me and Will Folks got that planned for this evening. Wait, nevermind, you said sticks.

Posted by: Larry Marchant at July 05, 2010 12:52 PM (IhQuA)

39 "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." /apologies to Bill Buckley

Posted by: Shit that George Will would NEVER say in a million years at July 05, 2010 12:54 PM (1yCHL)

40 One can only conclude from this column she must like baseball and despise grown men who wear jeans.

Waitaminute! There's a problem with grown men wearing jeans?

On a completely different note, BTW garrett, there's no point sockpuppeting if your boldface font quotes are going to give you away...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 05, 2010 12:54 PM (SHKl9)

41 What about getting a hummer at a Whole Foods store?

The bulk grains aisle has always been lucky for me, but you gotta be willing to do weird hippie and moonbat chicks.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 05, 2010 12:54 PM (PotyD)

42 Does George wear a tux to the ballpark?

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 12:54 PM (132iP)

43 33 I'm kinda interested on hearing Will's take on fat girls wearing corduroy pants.

Beats rubbing two sticks together one out.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 04:51 PM (yBUvJ)

FIFY.

Posted by: a fat chick wearing corduroy pant and saying OMG, OMG! at July 05, 2010 12:55 PM (YVZlY)

44 George Will's father was a philosophy professor. He never really did have a chance.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 12:55 PM (yBUvJ)

45 What about getting a hummer at a Whole Foods store?

Haven't seen one woman yet at Whole Foods I'd let touch the goods. Leastways at the Santa Fe location but I'd bet they're representative of most of the chain locations...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 05, 2010 12:55 PM (SHKl9)

The bulk grains aisle has always been lucky for me, but you gotta be willing to do weird hippie and moonbat chicks.

I hang out in the gluten-free aisle!

Posted by: Janeane Garafolo at July 05, 2010 12:55 PM (UQ9jL)

47 The bulk grains aisle has always been lucky for me, but you gotta be willing to do weird hippie and moonbat chicks.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 05, 2010 04:54 PM (PotyD)

Present.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 12:56 PM (yBUvJ)

48
Does George wear a tux to the ballpark?

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 04:54 PM (132iP)

Not sure, but I'm pretty sure at home he always wears a smoking jacket , leather slippers and puts his cigarettes in one of those long holders.

Posted by: Blazer at July 05, 2010 12:56 PM (t72+4)

49 The bulk grains aisle has always been lucky for me, but you gotta be willing to do weird hippie and moonbat chicks.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 05, 2010 04:54 PM (PotyD)

Will there be double rainbows involved?

Posted by: a fat chick wearing corduroy pant and saying OMG, OMG! at July 05, 2010 12:57 PM (YVZlY)

50 yeah she is on message she is against abortion even in cases of rape or incest. Intrade.com had Harry Reid as only having a 25% chance of winning, until Sharron showed up. Now it looks like a tossup.

Posted by: Denny Crane at July 05, 2010 12:57 PM (I+7Zv)

51 Haven't seen one woman yet at Whole Foods I'd let touch the goods.

I have yet to see the top of any woman's head that was unattractive.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 12:57 PM (yBUvJ)

Not sure, but I'm pretty sure at home he always wears a smoking jacket , leather slippers and puts his cigarettes in one of those long holders.

The man obviously has a superior sense of fashion.

Posted by: Hugh Hefner at July 05, 2010 12:58 PM (UQ9jL)

53 46

The bulk grains aisle has always been lucky for me, but you gotta be willing to do weird hippie and moonbat chicks.

I hang out in the gluten-free pesticide aisle!

Posted by: Janeane Garafolo at July 05, 2010 04:55 PM (UQ9jL)

FIFY.

Posted by: a fat chick wearing corduroy pants and saying OMG, OMG! at July 05, 2010 12:58 PM (YVZlY)

54 George Will is just the man America needs as it enters the 19th Century.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 12:58 PM (132iP)

55

Haven't seen one woman yet at Whole Foods I'd let touch the goods.

I take it they don't sell alcohol at Whole Foods ?

Posted by: Blazer at July 05, 2010 12:59 PM (t72+4)

56 #50 Intrade.com had Harry Reid as only having a 25% chance of winning, until Sharron showed up. Now it looks like a tossup.

Intrade, that infallible indicator of election trends. Tell me, what congratulatory message did you send to Senator-elect Coakley after she won?

/She didn't win? The hell you say, Intrade's word is final!

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 05, 2010 12:59 PM (9hSKh)

57 I stopped reading Will about the second time I turned to his column to read some political commentary and found him discoursing on baseball. Second time was when I realized it wasn't a momentary derangement. That was who he is. I can get all the sports commentary I want (none) just by knowing where to find the sports page.

Posted by: Mangas Colorados at July 05, 2010 12:59 PM (SWdDs)

58 51 Haven't seen one woman yet at Whole Foods I'd let touch the goods.

I have yet to see the top of any woman's head that was unattractive.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 04:57 PM (yBUvJ)

How YOU doin'???

Posted by: Helen Thomas at July 05, 2010 12:59 PM (YVZlY)

How YOU doin'???

Posted by: Helen Thomas at July 05, 2010 04:59 PM (YVZlY)

Dump the dentures and put on this wig.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 05, 2010 01:01 PM (yBUvJ)

60 But Intrade has Reid up by.......aaahhhhh, shit. Beat me to it.

Posted by: In before the troll at July 05, 2010 01:01 PM (1yCHL)

George Will is just the man America needs as it enters the 19th Century.

Five bucks says he owns a monacle.

Posted by: ErikW at July 05, 2010 01:01 PM (UQ9jL)

62 I've been disagreeing with George Will a lot recently, but overall this guy has taken more liberal scalps over the years than just about any conservative you can name. Anything he writes that gets Sharron Angle more national support is A-OK in my book.

Posted by: Albus at July 05, 2010 01:01 PM (sZNYc)

63

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too !

Posted by: George Will with top hat and spectacles on at July 05, 2010 01:01 PM (t72+4)

64 Hummer at Whole Foods? I am looking for a goat, Rosie's dead.

http://tinyurl.com/36hgf6t

Posted by: Charles Tombe at July 05, 2010 01:02 PM (2+9Yx)

65 but Bob Will's is still the king.

Posted by: Racefan at July 05, 2010 01:04 PM (ILtwk)

66
Hummer at Whole Foods? I am looking for a goat, Rosie's dead.

http://tinyurl.com/36hgf6t

Posted by: Charles Tombe at July 05, 2010 05:02 PM (2+9Yx)

OMFG, that deserves a thread all its own. Damn thats funny.

Posted by: Blazer at July 05, 2010 01:05 PM (t72+4)

67 New Poll on Arizona Immigration Law

Posted by: newser at July 05, 2010 01:05 PM (39SGJ)

68 I say, those Colonists certainly do have a bee in their tea, do they not?

Posted by: George Will I, c. 1775 at July 05, 2010 01:05 PM (yBUvJ)

69 62, George can take it. He sits at a table every week with George Snuffluffagus and Donna Brainz-zelle.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 01:06 PM (132iP)

Hummer at Whole Foods? I am looking for a goat, Rosie's dead.

http://tinyurl.com/36hgf6t

Virus alert! Webroot blocked something.

Posted by: ErikW at July 05, 2010 01:07 PM (UQ9jL)

71 OMFG, that deserves a thread all its own. Damn thats funny.

Not to me, I am a lonely guy. She's been dead for five years. Note the question in the story, did we make curry out of her?

Well, yes we did.

Posted by: Charles Tombe at July 05, 2010 01:07 PM (2+9Yx)

72 Isn't this the guy who had Obama, Brooks, and Krauthammer over for dhow in Jan 2009? If these are conservatives, count me out.

Posted by: dr kill at July 05, 2010 01:08 PM (w9bVp)

Hey lay off George Will. He's starting to get on board. And I wouldn't care if Ms. Angle looked like a tranny hooker just coming down off a three day methamphetamine high. She's got my support over worthless Harry Reid.

Better things than Harry get flushed down toilets every day.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 05, 2010 01:09 PM (ktYjH)

74 These boys in denim, they seem a rough lot. Perhaps a good thrashing by those in my employ would refresh their sense of propriety.

Posted by: George Will II, c. 1831 at July 05, 2010 01:09 PM (yBUvJ)

75 #70

It's a link to the Daily Mail picked up from Wiki. It's clean, you got something else going on, link the sadness in your heart for ole Rosie?

Posted by: Charles Tombe at July 05, 2010 01:09 PM (2+9Yx)

76 30

Hey, You Know Who Seems To Like Sharron Angle?

Will Folks?

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at July 05, 2010 04:50 PM (YVZlY)

After I heard of this woman I just can't stop thinking of her....except when I'm staring through my knothole looking for Sarah and her brood. I might just have to move to Nevada soon...Oh what to do...

Posted by: Wasilla Stalker at July 05, 2010 01:11 PM (MBef1)

42
Does George wear a tux to the ballpark? -eman

I went with the fam to the first night game of the year in Cincy, called "Opening Night".

All the ushers wore tuxedoes, or one of those faux tuxedo t-shirts. Ditto the broadcasters, and there was a '40's style swing band performing on the Moon deck (in tuxedos) between innings. It was fun, but the Reds lost to the Cards.

Sometimes people do wear tuxedos to the ballpark.

If you've forgotten the 80's, George Will carried the banner of conservatism on Brinkley's "This Week", with the imbecile shouting man, Sam Donaldson playing the fool. Brinkley was a down the line liberal in most cases, but he was also polite, intelligent and dignified, and recognized common sense when it appeared. Which sorta made him the last of his kind in TV.

Posted by: Reader CJ Burch says.... at July 05, 2010 01:11 PM (sJTmU)

It's a link to the Daily Mail picked up from Wiki. It's clean, you got something else going on, link the sadness in your heart for ole Rosie?

I don't know. All's I know is that Webroot blocked something "potentially harmful."

Posted by: ErikW at July 05, 2010 01:11 PM (UQ9jL)

79 I would suspect these rapscallions in their rough pantaloons of being not only Republicans, but in fact even Catholics.

Let us depart to the other side of the thoroughfare.

Posted by: George Will III, c. 1874 at July 05, 2010 01:11 PM (yBUvJ)

80 #78

Probably the pop up ads, I get nothing with McAfee. Some programs automatically question links out of the country about dead goats.

Just saying, don't read goat pron.

Posted by: Charles Tombe at July 05, 2010 01:13 PM (2+9Yx)

81 "I was conceived in Lovelock [Nevada] but -- if you're not pro-life -- I was born in Klamath Falls [Oregon]."

Like an effin' hammer.

Posted by: Jim R. at July 05, 2010 01:14 PM (CSDMM)

82 This singing of "Over there, Over there". It is a symbol of a nation that has discarded its European roots and insisted instead on wallowing in the chaos of this age. And in bad knickers, I might add, if I were such a fellow as to notice.

Posted by: George Will IV, c. 1917 at July 05, 2010 01:14 PM (yBUvJ)

83 but Bob Will's is still the king.

I have taken to Asleep At The Wheel lately myself.

Posted by: Vic at July 05, 2010 01:15 PM (6taRI)

84 This "war" against "fascism" is no such thing. It is but a mere reaction of the commoners against snappy dressers.

Posted by: George Will V, c. 1943 at July 05, 2010 01:16 PM (yBUvJ)

85 If you've forgotten the 80's, George Will carried the banner of conservatism. I remember the 80's, dude. I'm pretty sure Reagan carried that banner, with a little help from me.

Posted by: dr kill at July 05, 2010 01:16 PM (w9bVp)

86

Give me a break on the fashion commentary. I'm aiming for Cojocaru's spot on The Today Show.

Posted by: George Will at July 05, 2010 01:17 PM (t72+4)

Probably the pop up ads, I get nothing with McAfee. Some programs automatically question links out of the country about dead goats.

You're probably right, I clicked on the link again and Webroot didn't do anything.

Just saying, don't read goat pron.

That right there, that's highly enlightened, profound shit.

Posted by: ErikW at July 05, 2010 01:19 PM (UQ9jL)

88 Give me a break on the fashion commentary. I'm aiming for Cojocaru's spot on The Today Show.

Watch out for that "tingle".

Posted by: Chrisy at July 05, 2010 01:19 PM (2+9Yx)

89 Go ahead, run out of Mr. Will's favorite port when his meal nears end. Watch him get all Victorian on yo ass.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2010 01:20 PM (132iP)

90 a version even better than Waylon singing it from a little Rock band.

Posted by: Racefan at July 05, 2010 01:20 PM (ILtwk)

91 Read more from Huffington Post bloggers: Jacob Heilbrunn: Is Obama Selling Out to the Right? Obama's dinner with conservatives indicates that he is completing the job of detaching the conservative intellectual elite from the GOP itself.

Posted by: dr kill at July 05, 2010 01:21 PM (w9bVp)

92
But...but... I really put that fellow Bill Maher in his place!

Posted by: George Will at July 05, 2010 01:24 PM (Oxen1)

Watch him get all Victorian on yo ass.

I shall beat you about the ears with my fists and hickory walking stick until you succomb to my superiour boxing skills!

I'll have you know that I was the Golden Gloves champion of the HMS Redoubt!

Posted by: Commodore George Will at July 05, 2010 01:26 PM (UQ9jL)

94 I have taken to Asleep At The Wheel lately myself.

Posted by: Vic at July 05, 2010 05:15 PM (6taRI)

good band.......... i was about like that on the way home from my 4th of July adventures this morning.........

Posted by: Racefan at July 05, 2010 01:30 PM (ILtwk)

_{even better than Waylon singing it from a little Rock band.}

Should have quit while you were ahead, Son.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2010 01:31 PM (3nsLG)

96 Well, there you go again, George!

Posted by: Sir Ronaldus Magnus at July 05, 2010 01:32 PM (554T5)

97 Dammit. Late to the party and missed out of the NASA/goat rape thread.

However, I did just participate in the best.Tea.Party.evah. Complete with shouting, insulting, name calling, sign stealing, trash throwing, unwashed libtards. Thanks, libs. You make our job so much easier!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 05, 2010 01:34 PM (UOM48)

98
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
why don't you go where fashion sits,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Different types who wear a day coat, pants with stripes
and cutaway coat, perfect fits,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Posted by: George Will at July 05, 2010 01:36 PM (t72+4)

Should have quit while you were ahead, Son.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2010 05:31 PM (3nsLG)

hangs head in shame.......... sorry man your right. that was just wrong to say that.

Posted by: Racefan at July 05, 2010 01:36 PM (ILtwk)

100 I'd hit Sharron Angle.

Posted by: David Paterson at July 05, 2010 01:36 PM (Ulu3i)

101 If you ask me, George Will is on week-to-week probation. Can't tell whether he simply perfected his act decades ago and refuses to learn from what's going on around him or is a disconnected squish.

At least I feel that way until I read an Ed Morrissey post. Then I'm sure Will is perceptive, consistent, conservative, right-on-track and is channeling Barry Goldwater.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 05, 2010 01:39 PM (Ulu3i)

102 He's usually squishy but he did give a good speech at CPAC this year.

http://tinyurl.com/ybljpdr

Posted by: Tami at July 05, 2010 01:45 PM (VuLos)

103

I've turned the magneto on my horseless carriage and am preparing to explore the countryside! I packed a delightful picnic basket with roasted pheasant, buttered asparagus and sherry trifle!

Would anyone care to join me on my adventure?

Posted by: George Will, Intrepid Motorist at July 05, 2010 01:46 PM (UQ9jL)

104 I have taken to Asleep At The Wheel lately myself.

Bob Wills is the King. There's no Asleep at the Wheel without Bob.

Posted by: huerfano at July 05, 2010 01:52 PM (rqC5o)

105

to Waylon on the day after the 4th..........from his son. i wish i could write a song like this to my dad.

Posted by: Racefan at July 05, 2010 01:52 PM (ILtwk)

106 You can always count on George Will to give us relevant fashion tips that are completely on the money. If this were 1935 that is.

Posted by: Mamaluke at July 05, 2010 04:44 PM (gLNLT)

A plot point in the Fred Astaire movie Swing Time (1936) has his friends drawing a cuff line on an illustration in Esquire magazine and then using that to convince Fred that he can't get married until he has his slacks cuffed to match the season's style. The delay in getting in a tailor and getting the alteration done is enough to cause his bride to think he's left her at the altar -- the friends' plan works.

Posted by: stuiec at July 05, 2010 01:56 PM (W+GYq)

107 If you've forgotten the 80's, George Will carried the banner of conservatism on Brinkley's "This Week", with the imbecile shouting man, Sam Donaldson playing the fool. Brinkley was a down the line liberal in most cases, but he was also polite, intelligent and dignified, and recognized common sense when it appeared. Which sorta made him the last of his kind in TV.

I remember Brinkley's "gaffe", I think it was the 1996 election coverage when he called Bill Clinton a "bore". Personally, I thought he meant "boor" but I remember it was a huge firestorm.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 05, 2010 01:56 PM (T0NGe)

108 As an aside, I wouldn't care if she had three eyes, I'm voting for her. C'ya Harry!

Posted by: Milo at July 05, 2010 01:58 PM (Jqce/)

109 There's no Asleep at the Wheel without Bob.

True, but a diet of 1940 vintage recordings does get old after a while.

If you haven't heard it yet try the Ride With Bob album by Asleep At The Wheel. It has a host of other country stars joining them to do old Bob Wills stuff.

Sadly I have to admit one of the best songs on the album is Roly Poly with the Dixie Chicks.

Posted by: Vic at July 05, 2010 02:02 PM (6taRI)

110 If you haven't heard it yet try the Ride With Bob album by Asleep At The Wheel. It has a host of other country stars joining them to do old Bob Wills stuff.

Sadly I have to admit one of the best songs on the album is Roly Poly with the Dixie Chicks.

Posted by: Vic at July 05, 2010 06:02 PM (6taRI)

i will have to check it out.......... i'm just a old country and rocker....... i go both ways.

Posted by: Racefan at July 05, 2010 02:12 PM (ILtwk)

111 Obama's dinner with conservatives indicates that he is completing the job of detaching the conservative intellectual elite from the GOP itself.

He's welcome to them.

That way he'll have the full spectrum of the intellectual elites, all bundled up in one little doggy-poo bag.

Posted by: mrkwong at July 05, 2010 02:14 PM (G8Eo0)

112 That flat spot on B+rry's head is for Hugo Chavez's beer.

Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2010 03:43 PM (MBef1)

113 George Will certainly has some establishment and elitism about him, but hell he is a real American patrician of the old school. Don't knock him for loving baseball to the insane degree he does; he loves it emotionally, intellectually, for being an American institution, blah blah blah. And he is quite conservative, in a different and older sense than a lot of people (and most conservatives on the web) do. He also writes in a way that requires you to precisely understand what he intends every word and phrase to mean or otherwise sometimes he just reads weird.

But he most certainly has his principles in the right place. And when he winds up and throws out his opinion, there is no one, no one right now, not even Krauthammer, who can more eloquently (whether in print columns in the papers or appearances on the television) tear apart both Obama and the whole rotten system of liberalism.

Posted by: skwiself at July 05, 2010 03:51 PM (XvlZj)

114 Oh, and the kind of intellectual, "establishment" conservative George Will is? We need more of those. A lot more. If the GOP was run by men with his philosophy, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq, but Afghanistan would have been won years ago and the country would be the economic envy of the world. And culturally, from rich to poor, whatever ethnicity or religion, better off as well. At least I think so.

Posted by: skwiself at July 05, 2010 03:54 PM (XvlZj)

115 Actually Will never said he despised men who wear jeans. He just said he thought wearing jeans all the time in every setting was a sign of immaturity and lack of respect for people. That they were work clothes, casual.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 05, 2010 05:36 PM (PQY7w)

116 skwiself at July 05, 2010 07:51 PM (XvlZj)

+1

Will never got on the Compassionate Conservative bandwagon, either.

Posted by: MlR at July 05, 2010 06:20 PM (bXmuq)

117 George Will managed to step outside his provincially myopic 30% 'highly educated whites' class to discover there are Americans who are far wiser than his gang of 'stuck on stupid' .

Here's is one of those 'baby steps' we can celebrate-the 'stuck on stupid' are still babies but at least Will was able to take a baby step in the right direction.

Perhaps Charles Krauthammer can-at some point-find the courage to stick his own snooty-toes out into the real world?

Posted by: Harvard Inbred=Liberal's Useful Idiots at July 06, 2010 05:40 AM (+xhL8)

118 thank you for sharing.

Posted by: zentai suits at July 06, 2010 05:54 AM (aBP5o)

119
the media theme:

Angle is imperfect. And we all know that imperfection is intolerable with anyone with an (R) behind the name.

Corrupt big-government entrenched liar Harry "This war is lost" Reid... his past sins are assets, you see. Feel the virtue flow.

This fits right in with Biden's attempt to give Obama all the credit for success in Iraq. Never mind the all the years that democrats like Biden said "the war was lost" and that Iraq was "Bush's war and a quagmire" etc...

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