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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative Columnist George Will: Vote Against GOP In Midterms
Longtime conservative columnist George Will is making a case against voting for Republicans in Novembers 2018 midterm elections, arguing that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other GOP members of Congress have become the presidents poodles.
In a column published Friday in The Washington Post, Will lamented Republican misrule, and criticized lawmakers for hav[ing] no higher ambition than to placate the president.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-will-vote-against-gop_us_5b2d95dee4b00295f15c8a75
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Hopefully it will sway a few to either vote Democrat or simply stay home.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)for now he is saying the right thing and perhaps he will take a few voters along with him. I see nothing wrong with that.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)victims still to come if we don't stop this. Spiting those who are turning on this administration is not a winning move.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)What happens each time a vote is transferred from their party to ours -- or, more likely, just not cast at all? Or if a nonvoter votes? How the women's vote will be affected is a big question.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)every little bit helps.
Will left the Republican Party over Trump about 2 years ago now, so this is just a continuation of the path of anti-Trumpism
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)was purged from the Republican Party by wannabe kleptocrats and fascistic authoritarians because it was a barrier to the huge changes they plan.
But tens of millions, who've been badly corrupted, were once naturally drawn to traditional conservatism and can be again. The tendency is still there if adequate leadership eventually arises from this vacuum.
There is a huge danger, of course, that the purgers will harness anti-trumpism to their service, just as they encouraged and harnessed tea-partyism and trumpism itself. They are extremely well organized and have no intention of losing now.
bucolic_frolic
(43,295 posts)in my view Will is a supercilious intellectual prig who uses obscure historical references to make grand pronouncements that garner far more attention than they would ever be worth in an impartial media landscape.
He even tries to rule over other historians with jabs and deflations on relatively minor points.
He must really be scared though if he's adding his 300,000 voters nationwide to November's Blue Wave.
And yes in his article he's not even lukewarm on Democrats. He treats them like Hillary's emails. Elect these bums because our bums are not holding office responsibly by legislating is basically what he's saying.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)"A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senates machinery, "
bucolic_frolic
(43,295 posts)It's always that way with Will. Republicans are the one, true God, and they're just basically led astray by Trump right now. So elect these other bums, and tar and feather them, until some true, red-blooded Main Street Republicans can return to power and save us from Trump, Demcrat-Deplorables, and other cretins of liberal America.
WHO is going to save us from George Will?
Time for change
(13,718 posts)But if even he has turned against Trump, that is a hopeful sign.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)"A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senates machinery, "
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)When Hannity says to vote a certain way they obey. But George Will? Whos he?
IronLionZion
(45,534 posts)the deplorables probably don't read newspaper columnists anyway, they stick with Fox News and hate radio.
NBachers
(17,142 posts)Trek4Truth
(515 posts)and claim they are moderate spout the far right bullshit.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)the rest - for now. Lets pull back from the precipice first, then we can always go back to squabbling later.
Im old enough to remember a time before reagan, before identity politics when people commonly voted not for the person, but for balance in government - you would often hear things like "its swung too far left (or right), need to get in more of the opposing party ." IMHO, we were better off when centrists were really centrists and hadnt fallen under the spell of the far rw cultists. Of course now, when you hear someone claiming to be "center" more often than not its bs and they then go on to spout a far rw talking points. If some are now waking up and peeling away from the shambles that is the republican party, well ....thats a good thing.