Because there’s something about conservative woman and the “button” that really twists Will’s bow tie.
First, with Palin, Will seemed to intimate that not having gone to the right schools — or not coming from the right kind of background — redounded against her as a presidential choice. And while this position surely flies in the face of the quintessentially American notion that any child can grow up to be President (luckily for Mr Obama, minorities are encouraged to attend those “right schools,” often at the expense of those with better academic records, suggesting that, at least in this instance, Will seems to be a conservative champion of race-based affirmative action), it is not a position unfamiliar to inside the beltway types, particularly those who, like Will, were initially dubious about Reagan’s fitness and pedigree.
With Bachmann, however, we’re dealing with a woman with advanced degrees, and who — while conservative — has also been a DC politician. So what is it, one is left to wonder, that calls into question her fitness to preside over the nuclear arsenal?
Surely it can’t be her religious convictions: after all, Perry spent some time recently a-swayin’ and a-prayin’ (though I’m certain Will would suggest that he was merely pandering in that instance). So what is it?
I’m tempted to suggest that, for Will, Bachmann is too much of a true believer in conservative principles, and therefore is — as many in the Washington establishment seem to believe — some sort of dangerous zealot. Same for Palin.
Whereas Will’s “top-tier” candidates — recall, these were Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman — all have the proper gravitas and willingness to compromise on principles (and pander where necessary), making them peculiarly qualified to control the nukes. Evidently, Perry now falls into that category.
Plus, he doesn’t have a cooter. Which puts George at ease.
I suspect Mr Will is very very nervous and distrustful of a presumptuous vajajay. Since junior high, is my guess.
birds never look into the sun before the day is done
Perry/Haley 2012!
it’s the future you know you love it
I submit that Palin is doing what I would call a “Buddy Ryan”. Where she is busing around with Obama to get the press to look at her and then these democratic strategists posing as “journalists” will have to decide at some point to cover the real candidates and by then, Rick Perry will have had a chance to beat Obama about the neck and head on his unfitness, and subsequently it will have been too late.
Full disclosure: I prefer a governor to a house member and pussy’s got nothing to do with it.
[…] Does George Will have a happyfeet problem? I’m tempted to suggest that, for Will, Bachmann is too much of a true believer in conservative principles, and therefore is — as many in the Washington establishment seem to believe — some sort of dangerous zealot. Same for Palin. […]
Mr. Will has actually a lot for reals acknowledged Bachmann as a top-tier candidate
And he doesn’t seem very impressed with Huntsman’s candidacy
No. George Will is a smug, condescending elitist snob. Happyfeet only aspires to smug, condescending elitist snobbery.
Isn’t it cute how he apes the manners of his betters?
You mean now that she won the Iowa straw poll and has been running consistently behind Romney at number 2?
Why, how out on a limb Mr Will is willing to go!
Early on, recall, Mr Will and others, including Hugh Hewitt (I remember, because we had a back and forth about this), separated out the “top tier” and “serious” candidates for us. By name, these were Romney, Huntsman, and Pawlenty. Pawlenty is now out. And Huntsman has promised he’ll soon have a plan for the economy up on his website; until then, he’s happy to stand on his record. Of having worked last for the Obama administration.
Will eventually got around to acknowledging Reagan, too. After Howard Baker. And then GHW Bush.
that was from like July
Wow. That long ago. It’s amazing human memory can stretch back that far.
My memory goes back pre-July, when Bachmann was running just behind Romney and wouldn’t fade.
I’m gifted that way.
Well I think you’re being a tad unfair to our friend Mr. Will plus also the titular pikachu.
I prefer a governor to a house member
It sounds like Mr. Will likes governors but skipped over Palin cause she’s sort of a governor-with-an-asterisk.
But Palin isn’t even running! Dagnabbit she needs to get in the race for so she can prove Mr. Will wrong wrong wrong and do the commonsense conservatism on America … what other candidate has sort-of-writed two whole books and starred in a MOTION PICTURE what was well-received by Robert Stacy McCain?
That would be precisely uno!
So c’mon Sarah … buck up or stay in the truck and run run rudolph sarah save the christmas! It’s your time to shine, kitten.
George Will. He has his books, and his boa tree to protect him.
I think that Texas A&M and University of Utah are SO the equivalent of Harvard Law, if you also have testicles.
In much the same way that George W. Bush was governnor-with-an-asterisk*.
*quitty
Beneath the mild mannered yellow exterior lies an angry misogynistic lover of phallus.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Smoke ’em if you got ’em.
When Perry is out in the Rose Garden singin’ the praises of Jesus on high, swayin’ and a-prayin’ and a-janglin’ his Perrywhacker inside his boxer briefs, we can all pray along with him and thank GAWD ABOVE that he kept the nukes out of the reach of a couple of cranky-ass bitches who should be home cookin’ up some Hamburger Helper for their hardworking men.
Fishing and turning gays straight is strenuous work. A man gits up an appetite after such a day!
Ah. But does Mr. Will agree with Mr. Weaver’s characterization or not?
Mr. Governor Perry a lot got Jesus out of his system at his monster truck prayer rally I think. Well, one would hope. At the very least that should tide him over for a good while.
But his record is mostly about jobs and business climate and freedom. Like 99%.
The other 1%? What’re you gonna do?
It’s the times.
Sounds like another governor I know.
Who cut the budget during a surplus, even!
Of course, you know: she has a vagina. So, like, non-starter.
the only one holding Sarah back is Sarah
Puts me in mind of a line from a recent Doctor Who episode (paraphrased):
So, is Sarah holding Sarah back because she has rules, or because she doesn’t need them?
Has anyone ever seen happyfeet and George Will together?
Number of days between today and the Iowa Caucuses, 174.
Number of days between the Iowa Caucuses and the Republican convention, 202.
Number of days between the Republican Convention on Aug. 27th 2012 and the Election on Nov. 6th 2012, 71.
Plenty of time to get into the race especially if you already have name recognition and national coverage.
Interesting thing about the Iowa Caucuses. Their national prominence and continued national prominence seems to be an artifact of the progressive wing of the Democrats.
This is getting really interesting with T-Paw out and Bachmann energized. A possible scenario would be if Perry, Bachmann, and possibly Palin get into a 3-way slugfest for the “true believer” vote, which would leave Romney to collect 100% of the RINO vote, unhindered by Pawlenty. I realize that people here think that “RINOS” don’t matter, but they do. I know plenty of stiff upper-middle-class white guys who would think that Romney is a “darned good choice” compared to Perry or Palin. The kind of old-fashioned Republican voter who wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a tricorne hat w. musket accessory or dressed as a giant teabag. Their votes count.
romney is a deal-breaker plus he’s kinda weird
“Has anyone ever seen happyfeet and George Will together?”
Joe, that’s not entirely fair. Will may be an elitist RINO squish, but he is an accomplished author and wordsmith.
‘Feets just throws out profanities, non sequiturs, and calls Palin a snowbilly bitch.
Who farted?
plus I’m way better lookin’
I think it was the sports spectator.
Really? I wouldn’t expect these types to hang out at Comicon looking at illustrated space cleavage.
You learn something new every day!
I wonder, though: what do these types think about giant paper-mache heads, or bandanas and hoodies? That’s the real question.
The kibitzer did it.
True, but he spots you over 30 years.
Because, you know, Sarah kinda deserves it, right HF? I mean, she’s practically asking for it.
don’t put ‘button’ in your threads
brings out the crazies
I don’t understand the question
you can count the politicians I say nice things about on one paw
One’s an easier target, the other more satisfying.
in 30 years I’m a give a bow tie careful thought
dunkin donuts sells bowties
they’re sticky sweet
You’ve completely misunderstood Pawlenty’s strategy, such as it was.
I’m surprised no one took the opportunity to disparage Cubs’ fans in this thread.
I can’t sign on to the “you dislike X, who is a woman, as a candidate, ergo you must dislike women” line of argument. Sounds a lot like an argument a liberal might make whenever anyone disagrees with a liberal woman, black person, latina, etc.
I likes me some conservative women — some for whom I would excitedly vote for president. Palin and Bachmann just ain’t among them. But it’s not their cooters that are the problem.
(Though, note to Bachmann — whom I wish well even though she’s not my top choice . . . ease up on the eye makeup a little.)
So, wait, George Will is the enemy now too?
Cubs? Sox, all colors are on my list.
Heh.
That dog won’t Hunt[s]-man.
No, J0hn. Bachmann and Palin and the TEA Partiers are.
Haven’t you been paying attention?
By the way, T-Paw and Huntsman rocked that debate. Man, I’m so STOKED!
“So, wait, George Will is the enemy now too?”
Currently, the ruling class establishment elitists are the enemy of classic liberalism. You go ahead and decide where to place Will in that context.
It must be shocking to George that the Republican women who have run or are running for the two top slots are those that are much more passionately conservative than the men. He must find it passing strange that their are no Republican women in the Romney-mold running. I would guess that it is less the genitalia of the candidate and more that both Palin and Bachmann are much more passionate and inspire enthusiasm in the rank-and-file of the Republicans. To someone like George Will inspiring enthusiasm in the rank-and-file is suspect, because who knows what may happen if the those lessers start to think that they are worthy to be in charge and should be given authority and – horrors! – not just symbolic authority, but authority with power.
I think that he represents a Republican Party power structure that would prefer to govern because that is where all of the treats are, but would prefer to have the Democrats govern if the alternative would be to give up actual authority and power to the rabble in the party’s rank-and-file. Got to maintain that natural order of things, you know.
That’s weird, because I don’t think any of those people are the enemy. Sarcasm is fun though.
Oh. I was just listening to George Will.
But you’re right, I probably shouldn’t. He’s so divisive.
So who is the enemy John?
A timely essay by VDH:
Can you imagine a country that trusts the virtue of it’s leaders?
We traded virtues for values a long time ago, Lee.
Do you have a point to make, j0hn? As it is, I think this community has spelled out pretty clearly that we don’t have a lot of patience or respect for inside-the-Beltway elitists who seem to think that those of us working for a living and taking care of our families out here in flyover country should be neither seen nor heard. Nor do we appreciate it when the Establishment types seek to tear down and destroy those who would dare to reform the system. A system which desperately needs reforming, but which these privileged chatterers depend on for their positions.
Is that so cryptic? Is that so controversial?
VDH has been busy.
Cheap grace, progressiveism’s most plentiful and in demand product.
Oh, we couldn’t do that. You’ve got to kinda feel for Cubs fans, they’ve got the sporting equivalent of Battered Wife Syndrome. We wonder why they stay in such an abusive relationship, but we have to be non-judgmental and give them all the support we can.
Exactly.
Kinda like Rockies fans. [sigh]
oh my goodness you think you know somebody
i don’t listen to folks named queer hilbilly
i don’t listen to the mbm “conservative ” style anymore. put that in your pipe and nro it.
Sterlinggray seems to have an almost Hitlerian grasp on things “racial.”
Aw. I like that Quin Hillyer defended his high school pal, a real rising star of the Tucker Carlson bowtie club.
Seriously, though. Writing a whole goddamned article about it? Somebody wants some traffic — and happy is the target audience, licking it up like the Pavlovian mutt he is!
see no one tells me anything hey did you know that they’re gonna do a buffy season 9? I had to find out by myself on the internet.
oh.
link
Jeff, thats probably true about George. But your slang expression for female anatomy is outdated. Its now referred to as “vagaga”.
Not if you can wear a hat and boots unironically it ain’t.
Hillyer’s whine has been thoroughly discredited. Just didn’t happen as he claimed. The ultimate proof Little Quin’s wrong: Jennifer Rubin bought the fable hook, line and sinker.