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George Will: The Republican Party Has Become Too Southern

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George Will criticized Rick Perry‘s debate performance last week on This Week today, while also criticizing the Republican party for adopting a Southern strategy in the last few election cycles that have not always yielded positive results.

Christiane Amanpour, while not wanting to pile on to the Perry criticism, wanted to address his unfortunate stumbling during last Thursday’s Fox News debate. You’ll recall that Perry slightly mangled his words when going after the many flip-flops of Mitt Romney.

Will agreed that the soundbite was painful, and postulated that it is now too late for the GOP field to be shaken up, and the voters will be presented with the choices they already have. But Will didn’t just criticize Perry, he criticized what his candidacy meant for the Republican party.

Tim Pawlenty got in trouble when he got a chance to attack Romney and didn’t. Perry’s in trouble because he attacked Romney and did it so incompetently. There’s also the problem that the Republican party has been, in recent years, too Southern. In the last five presidential cycles, they’ve got 79 percent of their electoral votes from the South. It’s too much.”

He argued that the Republicans have relied too much on picking up the Southern and Northwestern states (as well as funneling a lot of money into winning Ohio) to take the presidency, and such a strategy might not work this time around because of how President Obama changed the battlefield.

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  • Anonymous

    What y’all talkin’ about , Mr. George ?

  • Lizton

    Will comes up with an obvious point years after everyone else realized it.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Republican Party Has Become Too Southern

    LOL! Yes, as much as they like to deny it, they are the party of Lincoln in name only.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed!

  • Anonymous

    The Republican Party is relying on previous strategy and isn’t really looking at the lay of the land as it currently stands or the future as its shaping.

    The country is evolving, unfortunately the Republican Party is being pulled willingly by the Tea Party in another direction entirely.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Maybe Southern Republicanism will spread across the nation. People will be in their trailers “fryin” up all manner of food items, “fishin” for all manner of fresh water trash fish like yellow catfish and white bass, “drinkin” up gallons of sweet tea washed down by gallons of generic beer, “spendin” hours at some race track “watchin” human billboards “turnin” left and “fartin”, peein” and “pickin” their noses in the woods.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    you mean the south where all the jobs and economic prosperity is? the south where everyone seems to be flocking too George in order to flee the high taxation of the north? is that the south your refering too you elitist, country club, blue-blooded snob?

  • Anonymous

    Wonder what Will’s view was at the time of Reagan’s choice to make his campaign announcement within miles of the quarry in Mississippi where civil rights workers had been buried by the KKK.

    Staid, mainstream Republicans have always conveniently overlooked the “Southern Strategy” since the civil rights era, because it was producing votes and that’s all that matters to power hungry corporate Republicans.

  • Laurence Glavin

    Stanford University has decided that it must become “bi-”, that is bi-coastal.  The school is in the process of building an East Coast campus on one of the islands abutting Manhattan.  Thet could have put it anywhere east of the Mississippi (the river, not the State) but they chose the northeast because research indicated that they should locate it near where people wanted to be.  And where they wouldn’t be bitten by rattlesnakes that had escaped from a church in the neighborhood.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Texas lost jobs in August.

  • Valkyrie101

    Wasn’t he simply referring to the fact that 79% of the republican electoral votes have come from the south. He says that is too much. He would like the same number of southern electoral votes (or more, if that be possible), but for those to represent only 50% of the overall republican total, not 79%. That’s another way of saying, we need a strategy for the north. Why is that a problem for you? 

  • Anonymous

    Robert attends church where they teach kindness and respect for one’s fellow human beings .

  • Tim Tebow

    After those debates, the momentum shifts back to Obama.

    Maybe Trump will show up for them?
    Fiorina?
    Ted Nugent?

    I know….PALIN!!!

    Woo-hooo!

  • Anonymous

    As a Southern Ultra Liberal Democrat , Robert stays busy at home tidying up , making BFD’s favorite rhubarb pie , ironing his frillies , doing his hair ( which is on the mannequin in the parlor) ,cookin’ up a mess ‘o gizzards and readin’ his bible ( the one written by Saul Alinsky ) .

  • Owl22

    To be correct Will should have said too southern and too white.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    WOW! all you can find is one month where TX had a decline in jobs! that’s pretty damn impressive considering the rest of the country and the economy as a whole.

  • TbagsRstupid

    As a wise man once said (catfishjuggling)

    RINO

  • South Park Conservatives

    Wonder what Will’s view was at the time Jimmy Carter kicked off his campaign  at the birth place of the kkk in the south.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Obama hasn’t created 1 net job in almost 3 years.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    More name calling in place of any kind of intelligent response and your command of the English language is stunning too!

  • Yukon Jack

    And George Will has become a North-Eastern Democrat.

    Pity!

  • Yukon Jack

    And George Will has become a North-Eastern Democrat.

    Pity!

  • Nature Freak

    This Florida liberal likes sweet tea, grew up catching and eating catfish, has family and friends living in moble homes, drinks beer and likes to pee in the woods. Growing up I used to go to the local racetrack. Demolition derbys are fun! That being siad, i still like to make fun of certain kinds of rednecks and certain local groups of “trash”.

    Political affiliation is more complicated with those bearing the attributes you describe. Many of those you stereotype do not vote Republican and are on the left. Depends in what state and region of the South one lives. The suburban and rural South is a complicated place.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Do people forget 2010? In 2012 at the very least, Republicans will control the house and senate.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Do people forget 2010? In 2012 at the very least, Republicans will control the house and senate.

  • Pablo

    I think he’s scolding NY-9.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    go thank a unionized public school teacher.

  • Anonymous

    Evidently, you’ve missed the GOP debates. Watch them if you get a chance, you’re in for a rude awakening.

  • Anonymous

    “Southern” is code for racist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    He has made a career out of doing exactly that.

  • Anonymous

    You seem to be well acquainted with the your version of Southern behaviour.  You go boy – just don’t do the nose pickin in the car and think you’re invisible.

  • TbagsRstupid

    Whose states are subsidized by the North, taking in more federal tax dollars than they pay?
    http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html

  • Pablo

    Wisconsin? Michigan? Ohio? New Jersey? Maine? Pennsylvania? Iowa? Wyoming? Kansas? New Mexico?

    Never heard of ‘em.

    http://tinyurl.com/6zr8por

  • Anonymous

    Yeh, what’s a born and bred southerner doing announcing in the south? That’s just like born and bred Illinois guy, former California governor Reagan announcing in Mississippi and discussing state’s rights.
     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    If they weren’t factoring illegals in the job growth it would be even worse.

  • Pablo
  • ceeza

    So you think New Yorks going red next November Pablo?  HA!!   

  • Anonymous

    Duh! Isn’t obvious? 

  • TbagsRstupid

    I suppose you would like to trumpet the fact that 81% of the jobs Parry has created went to immigrants?
    How about the fact that 40% went to illegal immigrants?
    or how about this?
    Newly-arrived immigrants dominated job growth despite representing only 29% of population growthRead more: http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-jobs-immigrants-rick-perry-2011-9#ixzz1YzhmNzkD

  • Nature Freak

    If a bear picks his nose in the woods, and there is no one there to witness it, does it make a noise?

  • Pablo
  • Anonymous

    Suddenly got the cravin’ fo some fried chickon and gumbo.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    OMG!!! now all of a sudden you sanctuary city declaring, open-border liberals want to hate on the illegals and bitch about them having jobs!

  • Anonymous

    Third Party (Tea party) candidate, Sarah Palin. Run Sarah Run!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, after the American Recovery Act aid ran out.

  • Anonymous

    Why do people claim Obama Has not created jobs?
    When the Department of Labor and Training says otherwise?http://www.dlt.ri.gov/lmi/laus/us/usadj.…Date: August 2011Labor force: 153,594Employed: 139,627Unemployed: 13,967Unemployment rate: 9.1%Date: January 2011 (Congress was Split)Labor force: 153,186Employed: 139,323Unemployed: 13,863Unemployment rate: 9.0%Date: January 2009 (Obama took office)Labor force: 154,185Employed: 142,201Unemployed: 11,984Unemployment rate: 7.8%Date: January 2007 (Democrats took control of Congress)Labor Force: 153,133Employed: 146,033Unemployed: 7,100Unemployment rate: 4.6%Date: January 2001 (Bush took Office)Labor Force: 143,800Employed: 137,778Unemployed: 6,023Unemployment rate: 4.2%Date: January 1995 (Republicans took Congress)Labor Force: 132,038Employed: 124,663Unemployed: 7,375Unemployment rate: 5.6%Date: January 1993 (Clinton took office)Labor Force: 128,400Employed: 119,075Unemployed: 9,325Unemployment rate: 7.3%Congress: DemocratJob Creation: -6,710Unemployment Change: +6,763Congress: RepublicanJob Creation: +21,370Unemployment Change: -275President: ObamaJob Creation: -2,574Unemployment Change: +1,983President: BushJob Creation: +4,423Unemployment Change: +5,961President: ClintonJob Creation: +18,703Unemployment Change: -3,302Government: Obama/Split congressJob Creation: +304Unemployment Change: +104Government: Obama/Democratic congressJob Creation: -2,878Unemployment Change: +1,879Government: Bush/Democratic CongressJob Creation: -3,832Unemployment Change: +4,884Government: Bush/Republican CongressJob Creation: +8,255Unemployment Change: +1,077Government: Clinton/Republican CongressJob Creation: +13,115Unemployment Change: -1,352Government: Clinton/Democratic CongressJob Creation: +5,588Unemployment Change: -1,950

  • Anonymous

    So says The National Journal? Good luck with that.

  • Pit Boss

    I’m hearing David Duke is going to make a comeback because the RNC has requested him as a special adviser.

  • Anonymous

    News Junkie reports:

    The numbers are not all good however. Companies added 64,000 jobs last month,
    but after the loss of 159,000 government jobs at all levels, there was a net
    shedding of ~95,000. The fading influence of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA or the economic stimulus) is
    causing much of the strain on the job market, as state and local governments
    still strained by poor revenue are cutting positions, particularly in
    education.

    This is also the central agent that has caused the overall net job loss for
    the last four months, following a net gain for the first 5 months of the year.
    The net jobs gained during 2010 stands at 613,000, which is over half of the
    1,080,000 jobs were created during the entire time George W. Bush was in
    office.

    The fear is that the conservative extremists, backed by shadow groups
    financing false political advertisements, will sway independent voters in
    abandoning the Democratic leadership and return power to the GOP, who caused
    this problem in the first place.

  • Pablo

    No, I think NY-9 just went red this week, ceeza. HA!

  • Pablo

    Who doesn’t like peeing in the woods, right?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1348434457 Ali Vonal

    Of course the reps are goin’ south. How else will the be elected if it wasn’t for the bible belt? The only people who have faith in conservatism are the wealthy who don’t want to be taxed an extra three percent, and the ultra religious who think that voting for a pro choice candidate is the same as actually having an abortion. 

  • Pablo

    Do you know what the term “net” means?

  • Pablo

    Who has all the military bases? Duh.

  • Anonymous

    Will & Amanpour: Two good reminders not ever to have TV cable service again.

  • Anonymous

    It was like watching who could out crazy the other.

  • Anonymous

    Good luck with that!

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    This Week can watched without cable.

  • Anonymous

    Who won all but 2 of those states in 2008?  Obama.   

    Wyoming and Kansas are the only two that went republican.

  • Anonymous

    Riiiight.

  • Anonymous

    The interesting thing is that, as more people move South, the states are becoming more “purple”.

    North Carolina and Virginia are clear examples of that.

  • Anonymous

    The interesting thing is that, as more people move South, the states are becoming more “purple”.

    North Carolina and Virginia are clear examples of that.

  • Valkyrie101

    How many did Reagan create during that time?  At his point, he had a 9.5 unemployment rate. Of course he was in the hospital part of that time.

  • Anonymous

    Ever hear of population growth?

  • South Park Conservatives

    Trying to win states that Carter carried? Before you talk about “states rights” you should read the whole speech. Which you haven’t done.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Obama has created jobs.Obama is still at a net lose. Participation in the work force at a 25 year low. If has many people were looking for jobs has when Obama took office, the unemployment would be over 11%.

  • Anonymous

    That’s crazy. Everyone on this board knows Repulican _______(fill in the blank) will beat Obama in all 57 states

  • Anonymous

    Enjoy it for the ten minutes the district exists, or until November 2012 when it goes back to normal. Turner should not unpack his tea bags

  • Anonymous

    If you are a neo-Confederate, you vote Republican. Ask Robert Stacy McCain

  • Anonymous

    There is a Politico article where xenophobic Republicans talk about abdoning Perry, because he is a “liberal” on immigration. 40 million new voters and the are trying to push all of them into the Dem party?

    You can always count on morons to do moronic things

  • Anonymous

    You should try it one day

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely guaranteed!

    Rick Perry was just awoken to his own Tea Party reality and for them, he no longer is quite as attractive. So much for exhibiting humane qualities….It always manages to seep out! Despite, even the most incredulous excuses…

  • Anonymous

    The unemployment rate is not about people collecting unemployment insurance. That is jobless claims. The Unemployment rate is done for the U.S.Dept of labor by the U.S. Department of Commerce and collected by  the US Census Bureau in a monthly sample survery that is based on 55,000 US addresses.This survey is called C.P.S. (The Current Population Survey). Each one of these addresses is interviewed 4 months in a row one year then 4 months in a row the following year. A person (15 yrs or older) that is looking for a job actively is unemployed.(about 9.2% now) A person working less the 35 hrs week(part time) is asked if they would rather be working a full time job.If the answer is yes than they are underemployed (About 17% now). If a person does not want a job is retired or disabled they are not counted as unemployed. Jobs have been created. Population growth is a factor because once your 15 yrs old you are included, Hardest to find a job 15-18yr olds.Because adults have taken their jobs.If people need a job.They are looking for one! The unemployment rate is like a giant aircraft carrier it takes a while to turn it around.If Bush remained as president and the unemployment rate kept going the way it was when he left we would probably be mush worst off.

  • Anonymous

    Limbaugh, of all people, was trying to tell the xenophobes that they cannot lose Texas, NY, and California and elect a President. He, of course, would not take ownership ofnthe obvious: “this is not my idea, it is just what he is thinking.”

    Oh, and the beauty of his calling the Republicans “we”. Who knew he was a Republican? I thought he was a “conservative first.”

  • Bob

    Democrats represent blue states. GOP is the party of red(neck) states.

  • Bob

    hard to do when you first have to make up for all the ones George W. Boosh lost or put in danger.

  • Bob

    I know…Victoria Jackson!
    No, wait…even better…Jackie Mason!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Hang -em-high Georgie, hang-em-high

  • Nature Freak

    Are Squidbillies Democrats or Republicans?

  • TbagsRstupid

    Yeah,
    Shall we vote for the guy not even on the ballot
    (Romney, Bachmann, and Gary Johnson)
    The Guy who couldn’t even bother to com talk to us
    (Huntsman, Perry, and Paul)

    I think that just leaves the serial nuptialist, the Homophobe and

    that guy who ran a business who hates Muslims.

  • Pablo

    He did have the good sense to fumigate Weiner’s old office.

  • Pablo

    I hear it’s inspiring.

    http://tinyurl.com/yeb4hrv

  • Pablo

    Except for WI, MI, OH, NJ, ME, PA, IA and NM, that’s absolutely right!

  • Pablo

    So that’s what happened last November. Interesting.

  • TbagsRstupid

    HAHAHA

    shoving that gay thing down our throats

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYYs0eaiEE

  • Anonymous

    One hopes he at least purchases new webcams!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    The South is the most populated region of the US by far.  It makes sense that the South would be where you get the most support.  John Kerry and Al Gore both received the most of their votes from the South (over the Northeast, West, and Midwest).  George Will fails at statistics or is just ignorant of our country.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    The South is the most populated region of the US by far.  It makes
    sense that the South would be where you get the most support.  John
    Kerry and Al Gore both received the most of their votes from the South
    (over the Northeast, West, and Midwest).  George Will fails at
    statistics or is just ignorant of our country. 

  • TbagsRstupid

    Uh fail

    Try again cupcake
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations

    http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345157c669e2013486f63eda970c-pi

    Alaska always at the top also takes in oil revenue
    California (with the most) is near the bottom

  • Pablo

    Yes. Do you know what “net” means?

  • Pablo

    Yeah, and? Lots of Red state bases in there.

    Speaking of fail:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_installations#United_States_Active_Duty

    Those are the really expensive ones.

  • TbagsRstupid

    by that logic, you were one of the people booing the servicemen

  • http://twitter.com/WorldDivider Mark Prior

    Mitt Romney takes PA, MI and Obama is as good as done.

  • TbagsRstupid
  • Sharpo

    look at it this way

    red states don’t tax their citizens enough so they need money from blue states

    and you wonder why blue states are going broke.

    how about  this. all tax money that comes out of any state/ stays within the state. even on a federal level.?

    the only thing different would be a small sircharge on national defense.

  • Sharpo

    like illegals or not, immigration reform WILL happen in 10 years. the babyboomers (largest segment of population) is getting sick and dying

    someone will have to make up for those revenues.. or you’ll have to raise taxes.

  • Sharpo

    as a far right wing extremist, glovesdonahue stays at home lying about all kinds o things on the internet under various names.

    He does this because he feels he has “free speech”

    he won’t tell you he has no professional life, no personal life, and no sex life.

  • Sharpo

    canada has higher taxation and more regulation and oversight than america

    we have more jobs than you do

    suck it down

  • Sharpo

    unfortunately you won’t mention that the worlds largest economy doesn’t tank when a democratic president takes oer.

    cough month before america lost 600,000 JOBS.

    why is south park conservatives totally ignore truths?

  • Sharpo

    please, i’ll pay for your airfare to california so you can pick lettuce for pennies per pound

    just send me an email

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Sharpo

    no, that’s your own stupidity.

  • Sharpo

    if you meant what you said, you’d post your real name beside your comment

    so how can you get credibility or respect or have others respect your opinion?

  • Sharpo

    like your sources are better? WND? LOLZ

  • Pit Boss

    Somehow that fact continues to allude the baggers.

    And Stormin, the south IS NOT doing well. Look that up there buddy. Those “right to work” slanted sites you’re perusing are giving you false information.

  • Anonymous

    So Sharpo is your real name?

  • Anonymous

    and ignorant, and Anti-American, and intolerant of others especially non-Chritians and……

  • Anonymous

    TeaBagger Death Cult members ARE stupid!

    That guys comment that the South is the most populated region is just another example of TeaBagger Death Cult members believing anything that is said to them by their ‘programmers’.

  • ganymede

    Quick political analysis: The Republicans have problems. They don’t have a candidate who can beat even the weakened Obama. They’re all too far from the mainstream, maybe, except for Romney, and Christie would probably split the Republican Party. He’s not a flip-flopper and reflects some of the liberal/progressive values that are the norm in New Jersey.  People aren’t going to vote for politicans who are not going to promise to keep Social Security and Medicaire pretty much as they are. And people are not going to vote for politicians who don’t have a viable program for economic growth. And people are not going to vote for politicians who are basically obstructionists with even fewer ideas of what must be done to get out of this mess. And the party of Lincoln is no longer a progressive party. They’re now the backward reactionary Party as many Democrats were a long time ago before the southern racists who called themselves Democrats switched to the Republicans after the passage of the Civil Rights Acts. Today,demographics are working against the Republicans. Most of the burgeoning minorities will vote for Democrats because, for some strange reason, they don’t think the white, selfish, and irrational white rightwingers care for them very much.

  • Anonymous

    Okay, I read it and we all know what Reagan was doing:

    “Columnist Bob Herbert of The New York Times
    wrote, “Everybody watching the 1980 campaign knew what Reagan was
    signaling at the fair,” and that it “was understood that when
    politicians started chirping about ‘states’ rights’ to white people in
    places like Neshoba County they were saying that when it comes down to you and the blacks, we’re with you”.[3] Paul Krugman, also of the Times, noted that a Republican national committee member from Mississippi had urged Reagan to speak at the county fair, as it would help win over “George Wallace inclined voters”, and wrote that this was just one of many examples of “Reagan’s tacit race-baiting in the historical record.”

    There’s tons more out there for all who are not Republicans in denial about their decades long shameless pandering to dixiecrats.

  • Anonymous

    I’m from the South, but here I would agree with George Will.  The nation is too divided with this red state blue state rigmarole.  I think Romney as a Yankee Republican is the answer to unifying the Country.  Romney would be campaigning in PA, MI, WI, CA, WA, OH, MN MA, RI, DE with a good chance to win any or all of those.  Perry, Palin, Santorum, et al will give us the same divisions that have paralyzed the country.

  • South Park Conservatives

    “I don’t believe stereotype after what we did, of people in need who are there simply because they prefer to be there. We found the overwhelming majority would like nothing better than to be out, with jobs for the future, and out here in the society with the rest of us. The trouble is, again, that bureaucracy has them so economically trapped that there is no way they can get away. And they’re trapped because that bureaucracy needs them as a clientele to preserve the jobs of the bureaucrats themselves.“I believe that there are programs like that, programs like education and others, that should be turned back to the states and the local communities with the tax sources to fund them, and let the people [applause drowns out end of statement].“I  believe  in  state’s  rights; I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. And I believe that we’ve distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the constitution to that federal establishment. And if I do get the job I’m looking for, I’m going to devote myself to trying to reorder those priorities and to restore to the states and local communities those functions which properly belong there.”

  • TbagsRstupid

    You used to have links that backed up your assertions.

    Perhaps its time to take your meds cupcake
    http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/2008-election-map.html#/president?view=race08

  • Anonymous

    The Christiane Amanpour dude looks like a lady.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of ignorance, since when have people shown intorance towards Christians?  It’s the other way around!  Christians think they are the only true religion and their God only accepts Christians.  Stop playing the “victim” and grow up.

  • Cristanti

    George will is a rino.

  • Redleaf

    “George Will is a RINO” is another way of saying, “George Will isn’t in 100% hypnotized lockstep with every single opinion and platform of the Republican party and therefore must be labeled an apostate.”

    If that’s the case, then thank goodness for George Will and anyone else refusing to fall for the “my party right or wrong” philosophy of justifying even the most inane beliefs of a political party. 

  • Anonymous

    keep on dreaming there gany.  It helps you sleep better (for now).

  • Anonymous

    gee I guess you missed the  Atheist’s  signs and the effort to do away with Christmas celebrations etc.  Did you snooze through all the latest Atheism is cool push?  

    p.s if you knew a bit about Christians, they don’t think they are the only true religion – only you seem to feel that way so stop playing the ignorant card and grow up. 

  • Anonymous

    Mind translating that into english?

    Oh never mind – it was stupid in any language. 

  • Anonymous

    Quit with the real name b.s. gordon.  I’ve told you before, only a fool would put his real name out there.  Have you seen some of the hate comments?  There are some loose cannons around here (and if you don’t quit with the real name b.s. – you’ll be considered the loosest lose cannon).

  • Anonymous

    Some of these old dudes should come with a tag with an expiry date and should be tossed out once they’ve passed it.  

  • Anonymous

    Hold on to all your hate for now fool – we’ll tell you who to vote for when the time comes.  

  • Anonymous

    Alaska has more land owned by the Feds than any other State.  

    You’re easily fooled aren’t you?  

  • Anonymous

    You write like you have a 6th grade education.  Obama 2012-Black Power.

  • Anonymous

    George Will may be a RINO now, but that is more a function of how the Republican Party has changed in the last 10 years-Will hasn’t changed, the Party has.

  • Anonymous

    Blacks need to unite and take over this country.  Black Power.

  • Anonymous

    Does not “allude” the baggers (whoever they are) but it seems to elude you guys.  

  • Anonymous

    like go out and register them as voters?

  • Anonymous

    yes, registering American citizens to vote is a terrible thing.  As we recall from the ACORN fiasco, you people oppose people who are poor and, especially minority, registering to vote.

    Still, don’t tell us you think it is stupid.  Everyday, legal Latino citizens turn 18.  Please keep telling them they and their mom and dad don’t belong here.  It helps Democrats a lot.  In 2016, 2h3n Texas goes blue, you will regret the nativism

  • Jason

    When you learn how to spell “elude” get back to us on how your plastic messiah plans on winning re-election without FL and NC. Both states in the south.

     

  • azgrandma

    aka:  big fat blowhard.

  • http://reconstitution.us/rcnew Jolly Roger (Plutocrap)

    This is absolute crap. The fundies not only think that theirs is the only true way, they’d force the rest of us to either get in step, or get into the stockade. Or, for the “witches” among us, the gallows.

  • http://reconstitution.us/rcnew Jolly Roger (Plutocrap)

    Why do you think that they’re all so concerned with “voter fraud” now? And they’re all looking to Perry-ize their Congressional districts after reapportionment.

  • Anonymous

    rightttttt

  • Glutton

    Poor George Will, ust such to be a Republican that actually makes sense when he talks.

  • Anonymous

    well we know where you stand now don’t we.  Anything for a “democratic” vote.

    Corruption doesn’t phase you in the least – in fact you’re attempting to justify it.  Everyone who votes must have i.d. (legit) and that’s the bottom line.  You don’t pay people to register voters cause as soon as money rears it’s ugly head so does graft and corruption.  

  • Glutton

    Dude, just accept the facts.  The Republican party has been taken over by a bunch of right wing psychopaths.  The Republican Party of George Will’s time ( a party that actually made sense when they spoke) is dead and gone.

  • Glutton

    No, we mean the south that has the highest poverty rates, the highest rates of people without health care coverage, and that has the lowest educational standards is the south George Will is talking about.  Kind of sad that William Buckley and George Will are now considered “liberals” by the modern day definition of “conservative”.

  • Glutton

    Who has the lowest standards of per capita income, highest rate without medical coverage, and lowest rate of high school graduation. 

  • Glutton

    Kind of SAD that someone like George Will is considered a “liberal” in this day and age for simply speaking the truth.

  • Glutton

    Kind of SAD that someone like George Will is considered a “liberal” in this day and age for simply speaking the truth.

  • Glutton

    How come Texas’s unemployment rate went from 6.4% to 8.4% since Rick Parry announced his presidential campaign?

  • Glutton

    Every Republican that doesn’t sound like a right wing psychopath is a “RINO”.

  • Glutton

    Texas is considered a “miracle” state for its unemployment.  How come blue states like New York and Massachusetts (can Republicans spell that?) have lower unemployment rates in spite of their “liberal” policies?

  • Anonymous

    What George Will means is that maintaining loyalty to the US Constitution, Obeying the Law, and belief inn God are all outdated, old fashioned notions that the shrewd and street smart are willing to toss aside for the sake of expediency.

    Will knows the majority of the country has lost its Moral Compass and those who espouse the qualities of Honor, Ethics, Integrity, Faithfulness & Commitment seem hopelessly naive and somehow relics of a forgotten past.

    In the South however, there is still the core that fought the Democrats when they legalized slavery, refused to join their Ku Klux Klan, spoke up forcefully against Jim Crow Laws and Poll Taxes, and were outraged when Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in the Schoolhouse Door top Block Integration.

    George Will can have his weak-kneed, petty apologists who have no real life for fear they will be ostracized by a declining morass of simpering opportunists with no real principles. Those are the Republicans who pushed Dole and McCain on us, and now seek to force another Machine Picked candidate more suitable to Northeastern and Beltway tastes.

    Forget it George… a Big Change is Coming soon… and we here in the South are in the Vanguard ; )

  • Glutton

    Wrong moron, what Will is saying is that the Republican Party has become a bunch of racist Jesus freaks that have no clue of what’s going on.  

  • Glutton

    Ronald Reagan would be considered a liberal today by Teabagger standards.

  • Glutton

    6th grade education > the educational level of most conservatives today

  • Glutton

    Go ahead TEABAGGERS, go vote for a MORON who has no chance of getting elected in a general election.  ENJOY 4 MORE YEARS OF OBAMA.

  • http://reconstitution.us/rcnew Jolly Roger (Plutocrap)

    A stunning rebuttal, backed up by facts. I can supply you with plenty of links, if you like, and even a few from present Presidential candidates. But I’m guessing you wouldn’t click them if I posted them. Never let truth get in the way of a good dogma.

  • Nixon In ’72

    Will is a real Republican. All of the candidates except for Romney and Huntsman are RINOs.

  • Nature Freak

    Pablo, I agree.

    No matter what their affiliation, people in the South do not appreciate being talked down to. Enough. This is a sensitive subject with me (I am of mixed Southern/Yankee heritage myself).

  • NeverWrong

    George Will, as big a racist bigot as FOX’s Brit Hume. Oh yeah, both are idiots as well.

  • Nature Freak

    Living where I do before the internet would have been Hell.

    The internet has made live away from the cities much more bearable. This will someday be mentioned in the history books.

    I do love live music, and that here is lacking (at least regarding what I like, too much live cheesy country music here, some country BTW I really like).

  • Anonymous

    Wrong Again. What was opposed was the illegal activity of a non-profit as caught on the Video tape. I believe it was the 111th Congress that recended ACORNs funding, a Congress that was controled in both houses by Democrats.

  • Nature Freak

    I briefly took his comment personally. I realize RRE  was having fun though. I say outrageous things here myself.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I am weird in thinking people who have the right to vote, should vote.

    You are arguing something different, seek, something not at issue to the discussion (the acorn fiasco). When you are born in this country, as the children of undocumented workers are, you are a citizen. Short-sighted, nativist policies hack those people off and drive them to vote for the other guy.

    Read up on Prop187 and the conservative loss of California some time

  • Anonymous

    So illegal that no charges were ever brought and three separate investigations found no ills gal activity. Nice playing with, co, but you lose again.

    Oh, and it’s “rescinded.”

  • Pablo

    Your family?

  • Pablo

    The one I already posted does that, plus you could easily look it up on your own, Twinkie. You know that 2008 was before Obama had a record to speak of and that 2010 was not, right?

  • Pablo

    What do you call this?

    http://tinyurl.com/658rz43

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2A2T7NPD7W2HUY26AMRVNBWXVI RaymondC

    I think Will is too “inside the Beltway” to understand that the Tea Party movement is tired of candidates who claim to support the views of this movement but in fact does almost everything opposite.

    Indeed, it now opens up the field for one Sarah Palin to jump in within the next 30-45 days–a candidate that has HUGE support in most of the USA, especially her stances against the “crony capitalism” that has really ruined Washington (read: the Solyndra scandal).

  • Anonymous

    Ummmm….no to Sarah Palin. No way, no how. She could never win. Even if there was a glimmer of hope she ruined it with the whole “I think I might maybe jump in, but then again I might maybe not” thingy she has going on.

  • Rio

    Pretty lame stuff you got going for ya, might want to leave the witty to those who can pull it off.

    BTW, he does have free speech, as do you as do every citizen of the US.

  • Anonymous

    Now why on earth would Republican candidates do “almost everything opposite” of what the Tea Party wants once they win??

    Perhaps because they aren’t under the delusion that the Tea Party represents mainstream America.  It just doesn’t.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for reminding me that the Tea Party has a monopoly on obeying laws and caring about the Constitution.  LOL.   

    Thank God for the Tea Party, because nobody else cares about honor, ethics, integrity, faithfulness & commitment!And thanks for your revisionist history too!  Great!Democrats “legalized slavery”??  Who knew!?  (Nevermind that it was legal from day one of this country…) 

    Have you ever stopped to consider that such ridiculous, hyperbolic nonsense like you posted above are why so many Americans think the Tea Party is a bunch of old crackpots??

  • Rio

    I was supposed to be in a wheelchair two years ago, but I’m still doing my gardening, mowing my lawn and shoveling snow in the winter.  After I was diagnosed, we sold the big house because I didn’t think I would be able to maintain the home and gardens and I didn’t want to have to sit there and watch my gardens got to waste.  Was depressed for awhile but started making friends on the internet so I think, all will be well, at least I still will have….ahem….adult conversation to pass the day.

    Anyway, we moved to a smaller home and I immediately planted gardens all around the yard and back into the woods on property that isn’t ours, the owners don’t care, and that area was just begging for a shade garden.  So here I am, with even more gardens, still working hard, just slower and not worried about what’s yet to come.

  • Rio

    It isn’t just mil bases, it also includes federal projects, reservations, power grids, national parks, federal highways, federally funded laboratories, water projects, the IRS and many other federally funded initiatives planted in red states that benefit the country as a whole.  Blue states get Hollyweird, Wall Street and various coastal industries that enrich their states, red states get federal money sucking projects that the country has to pay for. 

     

  • Rio

    Bob Herbert?  Paul Krugman?  Snicker………there’s a couple of unbiased sources to draw from.  There’s a wealth of information that debunks the left’s Southern Strategy Myth, something tells me you just don’t want to stray to far from the democratic liars to find that information and make and informed opinion on it.

    Here’s an African American that did just that:

    http://www.black-and-right.com/2010/03/19/the-dixiecrat-myth/

  • Rio

    Maybe if you grew up and aquired a modicum of maturity they’s let you into the 6th grade, too.

  • Rio

    The recession hit Texas much later than NY and Massachusetts.  If you want a real comparison, try comparing the real unemployment figures, that would show those no longer in the job market in NY and MA.  Another thing, while the other states were in recession, job seekers went to Texas to find work and were instead added to their unemployment rolls.

    BTW, NY is at 8%, Texas is at 8.5%, NY’s 15% real unemployment rate makes Texas look like the employment capitol of the entire country.

  • Chamuiel

    sircharge? sharp, you are not!

  • Chamuiel

    naw, it means he is a liberal posing as a conservative.

  • Chamuiel

    Just like an ignorant liberal. can’t let a day go by without calling a name.

    By the way I did not call you a name. I only spoke the truth.

  • Chamuiel

    Romney is too a RINO, He is simply Obama lite.

  • Chamuiel

    And the Democrats are the party of the KKK.
    No LOL, just plain truth.

  • Chamuiel

    johnboy, Go Tea party

  • Chamuiel

    are you trying to say democrats don’t fart, pee, or pick their noses?
    really, what do you do with it? Leave it in your clothes day after day?

  • Chamuiel

    not sharp, I hate it when you tell us about all your failings and disappointments in life by attempting to attribute them to someone else.

  • Chamuiel

    and pooping!

  • Chamuiel

    the same question could be asked about a northerner. I fail to see the wit in this statement, perhaps because there is none.

  • Chamuiel

    parry? who is parry? I see you are another one of those elite college edicated liberals.

  • Chamuiel

    And the unions are losing ground every day. It is getting to the point that even your paid boy, Obama can no longer help the union thugs.

  • Chamuiel

    Department of Labor (at the present) works for Obama. What else are they going to say?

  • http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

    Did the American Civil War Really End? http://wp.me/p1Jt6N-7w /via @wordpressdotcom

  • Anonymous

    Well said. It’s amazing how many delusional folks believe that Lincoln actually would be a Republican today.

  • Anonymous

    You actually believe that Lincoln would claim to be a Republican today?

  • Djbynum02

    All Republicans living in the north should move south.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Thanks GLUTTON for your thoughtful comment.
    On behalf of all your fellow Republicans, may I say your technique is outstanding.
    Better than anyone else, you have mastered the skill of helping Republicans to NOT make a mistake by posing as a selfish, self-centered left wing assface.
    We will follow your advice by NOT nominating Sarah Palin, and instead nominating one of the several Republicans who will easily defeat the “current” resident of the White House.
    Thanks again for your sage advice.
    Don’t forget to donate to Mitt’s campaign.
    Keep up that “I’m a stupid liberal” act. You’re fooling lots of stupid liberals.
    Good job.

  • caconservative

    There’s no end to the ridiculous crap that idiot will say to be noticed! You want to know what’s wrong with journalism, listen to that idiot!

  • Anonymous

    Make sure they win the old Confederacy…because they wish it were 1860 all over again!!

  • Anonymous

    This is George Will’s way of saying the TEA(Terrifying Errant Activist) party is and are bigoted and discriminating against our first black president! George has professed on past shows his dislikes for president Obama’s efforts to get jobs legislation or increase taxes on the super-affluent!

  • Anonymous

    And Congress still decided that they did not get any more fedral funding. And geuss what the PResident (Obama, D) signed it into law. So someone in highpplaces sure thought they should not get anymore funding for telling a pimp how to hide his underaged hookers.
    The end result is ACORN get NONE of our tax dollars becasue of the actions that took place, edited or not.

  • Tom

     John Kerry and Al Gore didn’t even win one Southern state! Maybe George Will does know what he is talking about.

  • Michael T.

    Haven’t we seen this movie before?

    During the 2000 election and to a lesser extent in 2004 the GOP placated and pandered to religious conservatives. Then once Bush was elected it was like “Who are you folks? I don’t remember you.”

  • Jerry Baustian

    Perhaps the GOP is too Southern (or more accurately, too not-urban). But then again, the Democrats are too Marxist.

    So who are you going to support, the hayseeds or the commies?

  • http://twitter.com/DrunkReport DrunkReport.com

    i dont get it… is this a reference to something? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    he still thinks baseball is the national pastime…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    worse things can happen in our nation than taking part in what you look down your nose at…  i would gladly hang out in your aforementioned scenario, rather than hang with a bunch of phony hipsters too cool to realize how racist they are in their belief non-white/non-males can’t make it in this country without the ultimate insult of affirmative action…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6CBU7HS47WPSMS74Y5AKDM7J2Y Myka

    Yes but the Rep voters dont get that he is the one who could be Obama not Perry and the others

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6CBU7HS47WPSMS74Y5AKDM7J2Y Myka

    Hell no Lincoln would be a blue dog democrat and perry, bachman, palin and rush limbaugh wouldnt even like lincoln…..LOL

  • Anonymous

    timb116,
    Actually if you take away all the Bush tax cuts it is 4.6%.

  • Anonymous

    There was no Republican party until just prior to Lincoln and the Civil War (Started by slave owning Democrats) By the way, only a few Southerners were rich enough to afford slaves. The vast majority were extremely poor and essentially slaves themselves as Sharecroppers.

    As I am not a Republican, this is no strenuous defense of them, rather it is simply a statement of fact.

    The fact that you attempt to marginalize and demean those who believe in and are willing to defend our Constitution as “Crackpots” is why there is a growing divide and willingness for those previously not engaged in political activity to fear your urgent declarations that it is not that important

  • Anonymous

    Clearly, you are not a qualified spokesman nor qualified representative of George Will’s intellectual musings

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