George Will: The tea party IS the Republican establishment

[kpete]

George Will: The tea party is the Republican establishment
Posted on 09.18.11
By David Edwards

Conservative columnist George Will says that Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry doesn’t need to worry about the “Republican establishment” derailing his campaign because they have been co-opted by the tea party.

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“There is no Republican establishment,” Will interrupted. “Google the Republican establishment, you’ll get 20 million hits. Google the Loch Ness monster and you’ll get a whole bunch of hits. They’re both dead or never existed.”

“There is a tea party and many say they are outside the establishment,” Amanpour noted.

“They are the establishment today,” Will explained. “In fact, the Republican establishment died at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1964 when Goldwater was nominated against their frenzied wishes.”

Watch this video from ABC’s This Week, broadcast Sept. 18, 2011.
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/george-will-the-tea-party-is-the-republican-establishment/

[leveymg]

1. So what does that make George Will? Not a horn in the GOP Establishment brass section?

A cello? :nopity:

[Honeycombe8]

2. Well, maybe "establishment" is the wrong word. But it wasn't tea party-like people who ...

created Rove and Bush and Cheney. Rove-Bush-Cheney are the old guard or whatever you want to call them. The tea partiers would no more vote for Bush Jr. than they'd vote for Obama, today. And then there were always the more moderate Republicans, who are being drummed out of their party now, looks like.

But it's scary to think that the tea partiers have taken over the Republican Party moderate part. Scary because they hold Congressional seats, and if Perry wins, would control the W.H., too.

[ironrooster]

3. when Goldwater was nominated against their frenzied wishes -

George will is conflating the classical libertarianism with the t-party and that is bullshit. the t-party people don't know socialism from
communism and neo-liberalism from progressivism. they are in short, (except for their lords and masters), dumb-fucks - their lords and masters
being evil-fucks. Pathetic little suck up Georgie.

[housewolf]

4. So what he's saying is that the tea party movement has been one of the most

successful re-branding efforts in history. It's turned the Republican brand from one of being conservative to one of being radically extreme.

[SpiralHawk]

5. The Pee Tartiers have polluted the republicon cesspool

further than any honorable human being can tolerate.