George Will opens his mouth

[russian33]

Kerry's vision is remarkably unremarkable
George Will

WASHINGTON -- When John Kerry speaks tonight he may promise, again, to cut corporate taxes and increase the size of the military by 40,000 persons. Both ideas are sensible -- and tactical. They are supposed to blunt Republican charges that he stands on one side of a vast ideological chasm separating the parties. Democrats make similar, and similarly silly, charges about this election as the hinge on which American and world history will turn.

What is strange about politics today is not just that it is so passionate -- particularly on the part of Democrats unhinged by their loathing of George W. Bush -- but that the passions seem displaced. They are not merely disproportionate to the parties' policy differences, they seem almost unrelated to those differences.

Would Democrats loathe Bush much less if 9/11 and hence the Iraq War had never happened? The depth of their loathing of him after the Florida unpleasantness but before his inauguration suggests otherwise. And Republicans relishing -- the verb fits -- their fear of Kerry cannot have missed the fact that, like most political careerists whose compass is caution, he actually represents a remarkably unremarkable response to Bush's policies.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20040729.shtml

[Jo March]

1. Let's see - I'm checking my loathing...

Nope. If 9/11 and the Iraq "war" had never happened, I'd still loathe the man. He stole the 2000 election and enacted some of the most right-wing crap despite the will of the people. I'd loathe him regardless.

[Spinzonner]

2. Well, there is a difference between a thief and a murderer

but neither one is particularly savory alternative.

George Bush stole and election and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including nearly a 1000 American military who need not have died.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Rolling Corruption from the Bush Administration is what has kept

the loathing alive. If it hadn't been for one scandal or policy failure after the other, the outcry of the stolen 2000 election would only be heard from the far reaches of the extreme end of the left side of the Democratic party. But because this Administration is so arrogant and corrupt, it brings the 2000 election into focus for members of the so called mainstream.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. So, the simpering twit spokesman checks in.

It is good that simpering twits have their own spokesman. Simpering Twits have viewpoints, even if they are delivered in a simpering manner and are twittish in aspect. But they are people too, and entitled to their viewpoints.

No matter that their only use is as fertilizer, suitable for use only when any other fertilizer, including night soil, is not available.

I wonder what constitutes the erotic fantasies of George Will...Oh shit. I just scared the hell out of myself. ;-)

[hatrack]

5. So, is George Will the smart Tucker Carlson?

Or is Tucker Carlson the dumb George Will? Enquiring Democrats want to know! :evilgrin:

[Veggie Meathead]

6. The mendacious sophist Will strikes again! For quite some time

I thought he had given all of us a reprieve from his semantic masturbations masquerading as erudite analyses.Now he comes up with a phrase "unpleasantness" to describe the massive theft of our elections.He also wonders whether we Democrats would loathe Bush less if 9/11 and the "unpleasantness" in Florida had never happened.

The answer Georgie Boy, is a resounding NO!

We loathe Bush because he is a fraud pure and simple, just like you!

He pretends to be a fighter pilot when he did not show up for duty and was AWOL.

He has sent people to their deaths in Texas and in Iraq without so much as any compassion for the doomed.

He has destroyed our economy by the massive deficits he has generated.

And you George, are the most hypocritical and arrogant fool to infest our airwaves.Your opinions are remarkable only for their unremarkableness.Your egotism and vanity betray a mind at war with itself and consumed by its self importance.

In all the drivel you have spouted over the years, your moral bankruptcy has been fully evident in the way you have chosen to address the issue of the tortures at Abu Ghraib.May be you think it is a trivial matter to turn away from the tortures your man Bush ordered at Abu Ghraib.We do not.This is why we loathe Bush and Will.

[info being]

7. Why do we hate Bush?

Because of the consequences to his actions and policies. It is a rational and justified hatred.

If anyone ever asks me why I feel that way, that's what I tell them.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. George Will is remarkably unremarkable.

:grr: How "unpleasant" would the election have been had it been HIM or HIS family whose name had been purged from the voter rolls? He's such an ass.

[Cheneys_former_heart]

9. Hey George Will: we have loathed Bush since Dec. 12th, 2000

He got a moment's break after 9-11, then we loathed him even more.