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Longtime conservative columnist George Will says he has left the Republican Party because of Donald Trump.
“This is not my party,” he said during a Friday speech to the Federalist Society, according to the conservative-leaning outlet PJ Media.
Will said he has switched his Maryland voter registration to "unaffiliated."
When asked in an interview later what message he had for GOP voters, Will suggested they resign themselves to not winning the presidency in November.
“Make sure he loses. Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House,” he said.
Actually since Donald Trump is essentially Sarah Palin with even phonier hair we should not be surprised with George Will's decision.
After all back in 2011 he had this to say about a Palin run at the White House:
“The threshold question, not usually asked, but it’s in everyone’s mind in a presidential election. ‘Should we give this person nuclear weapons?’ And the answer [in Palin’s case], answers itself.”
Impossible to believe he does not feel exactly the same way about Donald Trump having access to the nuclear codes.
Which, by the way, is exactly how all of us should feel.
George Will is warning that if the GOP nominates Donald Trump for president, it would be the "end" of the Republican Party.
“Conservatives’ highest priority now must be to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination in this, the GOP’s third epochal intraparty struggle in 104 years,” he writes in a new Washington Post column Thursday.
The conservative columnist says preventing Trump from winning the nomination should be an even higher priority than denying the Democratic Party a third term in the White House.
“One hundred and four years of history is in the balance. If Trump is the Republican nominee in 2016, there might not be a conservative party in 2020 either.”
Will pans the GOP front-runner as a “fundamentally sad figure,” arguing that he has every “disagreeable human trait.”
“His compulsive boasting is evidence of insecurity. His unassuageable neediness suggests an aching hunger for others’ approval to ratify his self-admiration,” Will writes. “His incessant announcements of his self-esteem indicate that he is not self-persuaded.”
You know I don't always agree with George Will but his assessment of Trump is dead on.
And what he is saying about the future of the GOP is essentially what I have been saying for several months now.
However it is also possible is that the destruction of the Republican party, at least as we have known it, is too far along for it to be stopped even it Trump suddenly dropped out of the race.
And I would further state that this destruction started well before Donald Trump threw his hat into the ring.
Tonight Romney will appear at a fundraiser in Las Vegas with the king of the birthers Donald Trump.
When asked by reporters how he felt about Trump's crazy conspiratorial point of view this is how the man who wants to be the leader of the free world responded:
“You know I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in,” Romney told reporters on an airplane before taking off for a campaign appearances Tuesday in Colorado and Las Vegas. “But I need to get 50.1 percent or more and I”m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.”
Now in my opinion this kind of cowardly response should disqualify Romney from ever even being CONSIDERED as a candidate for the White House.
Not because I think he is secretly a birther, but because he is so nakedly admitting that he will pander to ANYBODY simply to get to that magical 50.1 percent.
If Republicans believe they have ANY argument to make in bringing up the Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers as examples of "past associations" which discredit the President, the fact that Romney is sucking up to "the Donald" completely discredits that political attack.
You know as if that argument had any credibility in the first place. Which of course it doesn't.
When it comes to Donald Trump I think George Will said it best:
"The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me," Will added. "Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low, and you can still intrude into American politics. But again, I don't understand the benefit. What is Romney seeking?"
Good question! Does anybody really believe that Trump will do ANYTHING to help Romney reach that magical 50.1 percent?
Once again this is much of the same moosecrap we have heard from the Grizzled One over and over again.
Obama's socialist agenda.
Obama is destroying the economy.
Obama ate my baby! (I might have misheard that one.)
But this time she answers the question about why she did not jump into the Republican primaries with a new excuse:
"You know logistically speaking, for me, I'm up here in Alaska, raising family, running businesses, I don't have that organization, I think, that could propel me to a position of being a viable candidate."
I have no idea which businesses she thinks she is running (Except the grifting business), or who exactly is raising her family, but her recognition that she never had the organization needed to launch a national campaign seems far more self-aware than in times past. The fact is that she NEVER had the support or abilities needed to become a viable candidate.
And good for her for finally realizing that.
However just when you start to think that Palin might have matured, or become less inflammatory, she cuts loose like this:
Asked by Jake Tapper (filling in for Christiane Amanpour) to evaluate the Republican landscape for November 2012, Will began by addressing the fact that Mike Huckabee had performed particularly well in the primaries in 2008– better than Mitt Romney– and then added this salacious tidbit of speculation:
“The President’s secret weapon may be the Republican nominating electorate… There is one person, high in the polls, Sarah Palin, who cannot be elected president because she cannot compete where elections are decided. In the collar counties outside Chicago, Montgomery County outside of Philadelphia– just can’t compete there.”
At this point it would be much easier to find a Republican that thought Palin had NO shot in 2012, than to find one who thought she did. Leave it to Palin to take a high positive approval rating among Republicans in 2009 and spend almost all of 2010 picking fights and over exposing herself until she cut it down to almost a third of what it once was.
According to the TLC listings for next week, it looks like "Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the very first time" will be broadcast on January 9. (I still swear they said NEXT week, LAST week. But oh well.)
I am sure that by the end of the two hour finale Palin will have managed to repulse even MORE thinking conservatives who might have once been open to supporting her.
Whoever came up with the whole reality show idea was simply brilliant. Yep brilliant. IF their plan was to make sure that Palin would never get anywhere near the White House.
Methinks the Palin camp might have a double agent.
Recently somebody e-mailed me and was upset because I had said earlier that when Sarah Palin announced her intention to run for President there would be people coming out of the woodwork to make sure that did not happen, and she had not yet seen any evidence of that taking place.
So for any of you who may have been missing the GOP blowback on Sarah Palin here are a few examples.
On ABC's "This Week" George will looks like he just smelled something rotten when asked about Palin's run for President.
Mona Charen, whose right wing credibility certainly cannot be questioned due to the fact she wrote the aggressively titled "Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First", writes on Townhall.com the following:
Palin has many strengths. I admire her fortitude and her commitment to principle. Her capacity to connect with a crowd is something most politicians can only dream of. I will always remember her 2008 convention speech as a rollicking star turn. She would be terrific as a talk-show host -- the new Oprah.
But as a presidential candidate? Someone to convince critical independent voters that Republicans can govern successfully? Absolutely not.
Perhaps the most famous conservative so far to trash Palin in the media was Karl Rove:
“With all due candour, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office’,” Mr Rove told The Daily Telegraph in an interview.
While the Weekly Standard, hardly a bastion of liberalism, had this to say about Palin's "completely lacking in reality" reality show:
On the other hand, her show is very similar to other reality-television fare, in that there are plenty of artificially constructed moments. The eldest Palin daughter—Dancing with the Stars contestant Bristol—is taken to a shooting range so that Sarah can “remind Bristol what it’s like to pull the trigger.” But it’s fairly obvious when Bristol asks if the recoil is going to hurt and mistakes a clay pigeon for a mosquito that the reason she needs “reminding” is because she’s rarely if ever pulled a trigger at all. Likewise, there are gobs of forced dialogue in order to set up Palin’s bumper-sticker lines (she tells Bristol, with the -subtlety of a skywriter, “Don’t retreat, just reload”). She also repeatedly makes unlikely pronouncements, such as that Denali National Park is 9,400 square miles while New Hampshire is only 9,200 square miles, sounding less like Sarah Barracuda than Sarah Wikipedia.
Which leads to this summation at the end.
But that’s what going rogue is all about. Letting it fly. Following your gut. Which has made Sarah Palin wealthy, and intensely discussed, and now has secured her a spot in the Reality TV Star pantheon. And good for Palin if she’s happy following her gut.
Though there’s no compelling reason to suggest the rest of us should tag along behind.
So obviously the conservatives with any intelligence are already openly mocking the idea of Sarah Palin ever winning their party's nomination. And without the support of competent professionals who really know what it takes to run a successful political campaign the Grizzled Mama is shit out of a luck.
Let's face it, the Teabaggers might be able to draw substantial media attention by gathering in the Washington Mall with their ridiculously misspelled signs, but is that the brain trust which can put together a substantial political platform? Or are there any members of that group of misfits who could write a speech that does not indicate to America that Sarah Palin's elevator does not quite make to the top floor?
No Palin needs to have seasoned professionals willing to spend their time working with a person that almost everybody agrees does NOT take direction well, and who seems almost incapable of absorbing information that does not fall in line with her preconceived notions of reality.
Who is chomping at the bit to take on that job?
Now of course that leads to the next question, which is are the people of Alaska starting to rise up and do their civic duty to stop this lunatic. And the answer to that is yes, and no.
Yes there have been a few more that have stepped forward and told their stories, but there have also been others who promised that when there was no question she would run they would start talking, who have been irritatingly silent. And still others who the Palins have gone after so aggressively that they just clammed up.
However I am very aware that some of the books being written contain some very juicy and potentially devastating bits of information about Sister Sarah that will undoubtedly make her unelectable. Her only defense is to defame the authors, as you have seen her attempt to do with Joe McGinniss, but the problem is that when enough books, and magazine articles, report similarly damaging information it becomes impossible to question the integrity of ALL of them. Though with her use of the term "Lamestream media" the Grizzled Mama is certainly giving it "the old (five) college try."
Will Sarah run in 2012? She has already started. Does she have a chance? Here let's allow Vice President Biden answer that question for us.
