George Will: I'm Leaving GOP Because of Trump
Jun 26, 2016 12:45:47 #
crazylibertarian
Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
Another good reason to vote for The Donald.
Jun 26, 2016 12:46:43 #
Jun 26, 2016 13:04:19 #
George Will? Like I care a rats rear end about him and the trash he comes up with to write about?
Hey George Will, can you hear me now? SCREW you PUNKY BOI! Go vote COMMUNIST so you can fit right in!
Hey George Will, can you hear me now? SCREW you PUNKY BOI! Go vote COMMUNIST so you can fit right in!
Jun 26, 2016 13:25:19 #
crazylibertarian wrote:
Another good reason to vote for The Donald.
Again I say-YUP!!
Jun 26, 2016 13:35:56 #
Zombiefarmer23 wrote:
Again I say-YUP!!
A man of few words. I like that, and second it!!
BTW, how's the farm coming along? We have some of those farms around here. Looks to me like all they ever grow is rocks!😊
Jun 26, 2016 13:36:11 #
Dear George,
Powder River, let 'er buck. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Powder River, let 'er buck. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Jun 26, 2016 13:38:02 #
archie bunker wrote:
A man of few words. I like that, and second it!!
BTW, how's the farm coming along? We have some of those farms around here. Looks to me like all they ever grow is rocks!😊
BTW, how's the farm coming along? We have some of those farms around here. Looks to me like all they ever grow is rocks!😊
Yes, granite and marble rocks with names and dates on them. Very quiet.
Jun 26, 2016 13:38:35 #
Zombiefarmer23 wrote:
Dear George,
Powder River, let 'er buck. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Powder River, let 'er buck. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Maybe you could use a 'bulb' like him on the farm?
Jun 26, 2016 13:40:36 #
archie bunker wrote:
Maybe you could use a 'bulb' like him on the farm?
Sure! As long as he is in a casket and a vault I would be happy to plant him.
Jun 26, 2016 13:43:06 #
Zombiefarmer23 wrote:
Sure! As long as he is in a casket and a vault I would be happy to plant him.
A knucklehead like him would probably grow a pretty nice rock!
Jun 26, 2016 14:04:09 #
George Will is hardly a knucklehead, maybe you should look a little deeper into his reasoning.
archie bunker wrote:
A knucklehead like him would probably grow a pretty nice rock!
Jun 26, 2016 14:07:56 #
O'Reilly was right=You are a jerk with a cowardly attitude. also a traitor to the Republican party. Leave the country-go to Venezuela and publish your trash.
Jun 26, 2016 14:16:33 #
crazylibertarian
Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
bmac32 wrote:
George Will is hardly a knucklehead, maybe you should look a little deeper into his reasoning.
Like maybe under his hairpiece to see if there reallly is a head underneath it?
Jun 26, 2016 14:18:09 #
crazylibertarian
Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
Donald Trump prompts George Will to leave GOP
George Will is regarded by many as the curator of all things Barry Goldwater. Well, it was Goldwater who led the Republican Party from the New World Order domination by people like Nelson & David Rockefeller to populist appeal.
It’s been tug of war since. Mitt Romney & the Bushes represent the return to dominance of the Big Business with the Rockefeller wing. Donald Trump represents the resurgence of the Goldwater populism.
I posted the following just a few weeks ago. If George Will wants to leave the Republican Party over Donald Trump, I say George, don’t let the door hit you in the can as you go. Ditto Steve Hayes and Charles Krauthammer.
Mitt Romney’s remarks about Donald Trump should surprise no one who knows about his Republican background. His father, George, was governor of Michigan during the Goldwater insurgency in 1964. Some background is in order.
Vice President Richard Nixon was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presumed favored successor for the nomination in 1960. There were two possible strong competitors, Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller.
Nelson Rockefeller had been elected governor of New York just two years earlier and Barry Goldwater who went to the 1952 Republican National Convention (RNC) as an Eisenhower delegate was a member of the Phoenix City Council. That year, Eisenhower was elected president and Goldwater to the Senate from Arizona.
By 1960, Goldwater had built a national reputation as a strong anti-New Deal senator but also, in a departure from the traditional non-interventionism of Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, was an ardent interventionist against the advance of international communism. Taft had been Mr. Republican through most of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal abuses & had run, unsuccessfully for the nomination three times, the last time beaten by Eisenhower. Goldwater was viewed as assuming Taft’s mantle, despite the difference.
The Rockefeller family accumulated the most massive fortune ever and had donated the land for The United Nations in a city that is a capital of the New World Order. Nelson Rockefeller didn’t become a candidate for the nomination that year but he wielded huge influence over the Eastern Establishment of the GOP. That led Nixon to meet with him in July 1960 at his Fifth Avenue penthouse where they agreed to a number of planks for the party. It was called the Treaty of Fifth Avenue
The Goldwater wing of the party denounced it as a sellout but in reality it was not all that divergent from any Republicanism of the time. Even now, much of the Republican Party would agree with it but the meeting led to Nixon’s sobriquet, Tricky Dick.
Goldwater’s name was placed in nomination which he later stated had been done over his objections. He called for a unanimous declaration of Nixon as the nominee. John Kennedy defeated Nixon by one of the slimmest plurality margins in history, .17%. It translated into a 303-219 majority in the Electoral College.
In the interim years before 1964, it became evident that Goldwater would seek the nomination to run against John Kennedy. Kennedy’s unfortunate assassination tilted the tables against Goldwater but a huge intra-party confrontation was inevitable.
Rockefeller proceeded as if the nomination was his birthright and many agreed. James Reston of The New York Times famously opined that Rockefeller had about as much chance of not being the 1964 Republican nominee as he did of going broke. Rockefeller never went broke.
The Rockefeller wing included Senators Jacob Javits & Kenneth B. Keating & Cong. John Lindsay of New York, Governors George Romney of Michigan & William Scranton of Pennsylvania. A Stop Goldwater meeting was held in July with Romney & Scranton in attendance.
As the 1964 RNC approached, Scranton threw his hat into the ring as a favorite son. A staffer sent out a letter warning that Goldwater was a trigger happy maniac who couldn’t be trusted with nuclear weapons and other hysterics that the liberal media were bandying about. Scranton was reported to have fired him immediately when he found out and politicos said it precluded any possibility of a Goldwater-Scranton ticket which would likely have done a lot better in the election.
Goldwater secured a first ballot nomination and chose little known Cong. William Miller of upstate New York as a running mate. Rockefeller conspicuously stormed out of the convention. Scranton was reported to have stumped hard for the ticket in seven states, recognizing the true danger that Pres. Lyndon Johnson represented to the country.
Kenneth B. Keating’s failure to support Goldwater movement was especially perplexing since they had worked together in publicizing the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba that led to the October 1962 confrontation that almost precipitated a nuclear war. Keating was defeated for re-election by John Kennedy’s brother Robert, an architect of the confrontation.
Most of the disgruntled Rockefellerites sat on their hands. George Romney did little better, introducing Goldwater at a rally as the Republican nominee for president rather than the traditional ‘next president of the United States.’ Goldwater went down to an ignominious defeat, carrying just six states, five Deep South states and his own Arizona.
Later he said that if he’d had to base his vote on what was said about him, he’d ‘have voted against the bastard.’
Discussion of 1968 began almost immediately. The Eastern Establishment, Democratic & Republican, wrung their hands over the future of the GOP. Romney was re-elected by increasing margins in 1964 & 1966. He was anointed as one of the men, the other was John Lindsay, who would lead the party out of the Goldwater wilderness. John Lindsay was elected to a disastrous tenure as Mayor of New York in 1965. An historically dead end political office, he continued the tradition & later changed his registration to Democrat but that did him no good either.
Romney became the Republican Messiah and rose in the polls. As he did, he realized that he’d better repair fences with Barry. He wrote Goldwater a letter pointing out that he’d never joined the Stop Goldwater movement. Goldwater responded, fine George, but where were you when the chips were down?
Romney had other problems. He had a hair style that could only be described as severe. He looked like a stiff, a Bowie Kuhn. Many hated him for it.
The scenario was set for a convention showdown but George had a case of foot-in-mouth disease, which his son, Mitt, evidently inherited. As the campaign went on, George referred to fellow liberal Republican Charles Percy of neighboring Illinois, an otherwise obvious ally, as an opportunist, probably thinking of the word as meaning simply someone who took advantage of an opportunity. Percy was not happy about it. But one of the biggest gaffes in American political history was yet to come.
On a tour of Viet-Nam, he was guided & accompanied by top military brass. When he returned, Romney said he’d been brainwashed. His stock plummeted and he dropped out of the race shortly later.
This is Mitt Romney’s Republican heritage. He is a Big Business-Big Government Republican who draws from the tradition of swatting down upstarts from other than the New World Order clique.
By 2012, his political portfolio was slimmer than that of Barack Obama that Republicans scorned. One single four year term as governor of a state is hardly extensive. He did an excellent job of bringing Massachusetts’ finances into balance but that was not much different from what he did in business.
As a businessman, his specialty has been vulture capitalism, to take a dying company, pare it down and rescue it. He is to be commended for it since it did preserve a lot of jobs. George Romney accomplished much the same in reorganizing American Motors and delaying its collapse for several years but neither of them built a company. Trump has and failures are inevitable and they make us all stronger.
Romney’s health care plan for Massachusetts was the model for Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Economists have called it a pay off for the insurance industry. Under ACA, premiums are skyrocketing along with deductibles. Expect their profits to soar then for progressive politicians to call for increasing their taxes rather than repealing the abomination.
This is Mitt Romney’s heritage. He is hardly a person to excoriate Donald Trump.
George Will is regarded by many as the curator of all things Barry Goldwater. Well, it was Goldwater who led the Republican Party from the New World Order domination by people like Nelson & David Rockefeller to populist appeal.
It’s been tug of war since. Mitt Romney & the Bushes represent the return to dominance of the Big Business with the Rockefeller wing. Donald Trump represents the resurgence of the Goldwater populism.
I posted the following just a few weeks ago. If George Will wants to leave the Republican Party over Donald Trump, I say George, don’t let the door hit you in the can as you go. Ditto Steve Hayes and Charles Krauthammer.
Mitt Romney’s remarks about Donald Trump should surprise no one who knows about his Republican background. His father, George, was governor of Michigan during the Goldwater insurgency in 1964. Some background is in order.
Vice President Richard Nixon was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presumed favored successor for the nomination in 1960. There were two possible strong competitors, Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller.
Nelson Rockefeller had been elected governor of New York just two years earlier and Barry Goldwater who went to the 1952 Republican National Convention (RNC) as an Eisenhower delegate was a member of the Phoenix City Council. That year, Eisenhower was elected president and Goldwater to the Senate from Arizona.
By 1960, Goldwater had built a national reputation as a strong anti-New Deal senator but also, in a departure from the traditional non-interventionism of Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, was an ardent interventionist against the advance of international communism. Taft had been Mr. Republican through most of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal abuses & had run, unsuccessfully for the nomination three times, the last time beaten by Eisenhower. Goldwater was viewed as assuming Taft’s mantle, despite the difference.
The Rockefeller family accumulated the most massive fortune ever and had donated the land for The United Nations in a city that is a capital of the New World Order. Nelson Rockefeller didn’t become a candidate for the nomination that year but he wielded huge influence over the Eastern Establishment of the GOP. That led Nixon to meet with him in July 1960 at his Fifth Avenue penthouse where they agreed to a number of planks for the party. It was called the Treaty of Fifth Avenue
The Goldwater wing of the party denounced it as a sellout but in reality it was not all that divergent from any Republicanism of the time. Even now, much of the Republican Party would agree with it but the meeting led to Nixon’s sobriquet, Tricky Dick.
Goldwater’s name was placed in nomination which he later stated had been done over his objections. He called for a unanimous declaration of Nixon as the nominee. John Kennedy defeated Nixon by one of the slimmest plurality margins in history, .17%. It translated into a 303-219 majority in the Electoral College.
In the interim years before 1964, it became evident that Goldwater would seek the nomination to run against John Kennedy. Kennedy’s unfortunate assassination tilted the tables against Goldwater but a huge intra-party confrontation was inevitable.
Rockefeller proceeded as if the nomination was his birthright and many agreed. James Reston of The New York Times famously opined that Rockefeller had about as much chance of not being the 1964 Republican nominee as he did of going broke. Rockefeller never went broke.
The Rockefeller wing included Senators Jacob Javits & Kenneth B. Keating & Cong. John Lindsay of New York, Governors George Romney of Michigan & William Scranton of Pennsylvania. A Stop Goldwater meeting was held in July with Romney & Scranton in attendance.
As the 1964 RNC approached, Scranton threw his hat into the ring as a favorite son. A staffer sent out a letter warning that Goldwater was a trigger happy maniac who couldn’t be trusted with nuclear weapons and other hysterics that the liberal media were bandying about. Scranton was reported to have fired him immediately when he found out and politicos said it precluded any possibility of a Goldwater-Scranton ticket which would likely have done a lot better in the election.
Goldwater secured a first ballot nomination and chose little known Cong. William Miller of upstate New York as a running mate. Rockefeller conspicuously stormed out of the convention. Scranton was reported to have stumped hard for the ticket in seven states, recognizing the true danger that Pres. Lyndon Johnson represented to the country.
Kenneth B. Keating’s failure to support Goldwater movement was especially perplexing since they had worked together in publicizing the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba that led to the October 1962 confrontation that almost precipitated a nuclear war. Keating was defeated for re-election by John Kennedy’s brother Robert, an architect of the confrontation.
Most of the disgruntled Rockefellerites sat on their hands. George Romney did little better, introducing Goldwater at a rally as the Republican nominee for president rather than the traditional ‘next president of the United States.’ Goldwater went down to an ignominious defeat, carrying just six states, five Deep South states and his own Arizona.
Later he said that if he’d had to base his vote on what was said about him, he’d ‘have voted against the bastard.’
Discussion of 1968 began almost immediately. The Eastern Establishment, Democratic & Republican, wrung their hands over the future of the GOP. Romney was re-elected by increasing margins in 1964 & 1966. He was anointed as one of the men, the other was John Lindsay, who would lead the party out of the Goldwater wilderness. John Lindsay was elected to a disastrous tenure as Mayor of New York in 1965. An historically dead end political office, he continued the tradition & later changed his registration to Democrat but that did him no good either.
Romney became the Republican Messiah and rose in the polls. As he did, he realized that he’d better repair fences with Barry. He wrote Goldwater a letter pointing out that he’d never joined the Stop Goldwater movement. Goldwater responded, fine George, but where were you when the chips were down?
Romney had other problems. He had a hair style that could only be described as severe. He looked like a stiff, a Bowie Kuhn. Many hated him for it.
The scenario was set for a convention showdown but George had a case of foot-in-mouth disease, which his son, Mitt, evidently inherited. As the campaign went on, George referred to fellow liberal Republican Charles Percy of neighboring Illinois, an otherwise obvious ally, as an opportunist, probably thinking of the word as meaning simply someone who took advantage of an opportunity. Percy was not happy about it. But one of the biggest gaffes in American political history was yet to come.
On a tour of Viet-Nam, he was guided & accompanied by top military brass. When he returned, Romney said he’d been brainwashed. His stock plummeted and he dropped out of the race shortly later.
This is Mitt Romney’s Republican heritage. He is a Big Business-Big Government Republican who draws from the tradition of swatting down upstarts from other than the New World Order clique.
By 2012, his political portfolio was slimmer than that of Barack Obama that Republicans scorned. One single four year term as governor of a state is hardly extensive. He did an excellent job of bringing Massachusetts’ finances into balance but that was not much different from what he did in business.
As a businessman, his specialty has been vulture capitalism, to take a dying company, pare it down and rescue it. He is to be commended for it since it did preserve a lot of jobs. George Romney accomplished much the same in reorganizing American Motors and delaying its collapse for several years but neither of them built a company. Trump has and failures are inevitable and they make us all stronger.
Romney’s health care plan for Massachusetts was the model for Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Economists have called it a pay off for the insurance industry. Under ACA, premiums are skyrocketing along with deductibles. Expect their profits to soar then for progressive politicians to call for increasing their taxes rather than repealing the abomination.
This is Mitt Romney’s heritage. He is hardly a person to excoriate Donald Trump.
Jun 26, 2016 14:18:31 #
bmac32 wrote:
George Will is hardly a knucklehead, maybe you should look a little deeper into his reasoning.
Neither is Krauthammer or Kristol or most of the RINOS but sooner or later you have to choose sides and choosing the bitch is a sure way to sink us for good.
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