George Will: Conservatives "Looking For A Candidate Who Will Affirm And Validate Their Anger"

[SummerSnow]

GEORGE WILL: Well, the Republicans have been fighting with one another since Teddy Roosevelt split with William Howard Taft in 1912. On Thursday night, it's going to be like three dimensional chess. Because you have ten candidates on stage, each with their own needs, and you're going to have at least two important audiences. One audience is the Republican base, whose mood at the moment I think can best be described as volcanic.

This debate takes place in the shadow of the Planned Parenthood imbroglio here in Washington, and the Republican base simply cannot understand the reasons, and there are good reasons. But they cannot understand the reasons why they send Republican majorities to both Houses of Congress and still can't defund Planned Parenthood. So I think they're looking for a candidate who will affirm and validate their anger at the moment.

Another group of Republicans watching this debate will be looking for someone who can get to 270 electoral votes. That is they're simply trying to find someone who's the most plausible candidate to defeat the most likely Democratic nominee, Mrs. Clinton. So you have ten candidates different needs and two audiences with somewhat different emphases.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/08/06/george_will_conservatives_looking_for_a_candidate_who_will_affirm_and_validate_their_anger.html

[randome]

1. Or, to summarize, His Wordiness: "The GOP wants to win."

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[Wounded Bear]

2. Perhaps they should be looking for...

someone who will, I don't know, actually work to fix the real problems facing the American people. Not these half-baked, pseudo-Biblical concepts being pimped by the telebangelists.

I'm pretty sure God won't fix our roads and bridges, or staff the FAA to keep planes flying safely, or do any other of a myriad other things we need government to do because it isn't cost effective enough for private enterprise to do but absolutely must be done.

[Recursion]

3. Does that sound familiar?

[underpants]

4. Republicans have been fighting with one another since 1912?

George appears to have forgotten one of the guiding principles of Republicanism of the last 30 years - Reagan's 11th Commandment - Republicans shall not attack other Republicans. They are on point to a fault and homogenized to placidity.

Before their propaganda department took over their party they stuck to refined talking points like they were oxygen. Finely crafted talking points to appeal to the masses while still including dog whistles that their base fully understood. They became so indecipherable as candidates that their 15 debates in 2012 became "Me too! But more!" events. When Perry OOPS'ed his way out of the race Ron Paul and Santorum literally looked down at their notes to finished Perry's thoughts about which Departments of the government to get rid of.

George Will is a tool.

[SummerSnow]

5. spot on

[KG]

6. piss on George Will