By the way, I’m a fan of the Colbert Report. I just thought this was a refreshing interview.

But you’re admittedly still full of hokum. At least we’re not self-delusional.

Go take another hit.

Jeff

When you drive a wedge through the middle, you break everything in two.

Ha! Worthless, hokum just like yours, only mine sounds better.

Where were all these calls for bipartisanship love-in when the Republicans were running things?

You guys are transparent like Gladwrap.

Not only do I know what George Will is about, I am an acquaintance of him, and have many mutual friend.

Reading all of this vitriol on this thread makes me realize that both conservative blogs and liberal blogs make the same accusations against each other. You could take this thread and substitute the words conservative and Republican with liberal and Democrat, and it would sound exactly the same as they are writing over in the conservative media. Both sides are levying the exact same arguments about the characteristics of members of the other side, with the exception that the Conservative side engages in a little less hand wringing.

I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Jeff

Jeff

By the way, I paint Will as conflating “conservative” with “Republican” not because I’m an ill-informed moron who doesn’t know the man – I’ve been reading him on and off for 20 years or more – but rather because HE SAID THAT HIMSELF.

Maybe you could, you know, watch the video before you get your panties in a wad.

1) Fiscally responsible
2) Isolationist
3) Fiercely defensive of our civil liberties.

This crowd is;

4) None of the above.

Conservatives are in fact appalled by the current Republican party, consider it hijacked and are looking for ways to reclaim it. Which is another reason November will be a blowout.

What is scary is the number of Republicans who >haven’t< been appalled by this incarnation of their party. There is a sheep-like mentality to these people who don’t seem to be able to notice that their party has been co-opted. Read Dean’s “Conservatives Without a Conscience” for a peek into this.

I suspect that Mr. Will, like his inspiration Mr. Goldwater, wouldn’t piss on Bush if he were on fire.

I’m sure Democrats and liberals hold a monoply on the truth.

Of course not. He’s a republican.

The commenters really don’t have a clue what conservatism is. Call it cognative dissonance….I just don’t know. I’m a conservative and proud of it.

I’m also an evil minion of the neo-con movement, desperate to take the food from the poor and enrich myself in the process.

Jeff

Then unless Will is a sniveling hypocrite, he should eat ONLY food from sources that have never had FDA or USDA inspectors interfering in their “free market enterprise” with those onerous inspections and insistence on nanny-state health and sanitation standards.

Of course, after 8 years of the Bush regime and their foxes-guarding-hen-houses philosophy, maybe there wouldn’t be much more additional risk if they just abolished those departments altogether and let the free market reign supreme. If there were any justice in the world, Will would be the first one to swallow a nice big mouth full of salmonella-tainted spinach after total “freedom” was restored.

The best definition of the two I’ve concocted is: “Conservatives believe people are basically *evil*, and left to their own devices, will behave evilly.” Is it any wonder they believe this when you just look at the kind of people that call themselves “Conservative”?

I continue: “Therefore, Conservatives believe that abstract entities like ‘business’ are ‘pure’, free of the frailties of human desire, and if left to the free market, simple market forces will always produce the most beneficial outcome for people or else ‘the Market’ will kill them off.”

If you are a Liberal, you already see the fallacy of that kind of thinking. In the quest for ever greater profits, businesses will always provide the absolute least/worst it can and still turn a profit.

“Liberals” on the other hand, “believe that at heart, all people are basically good and only want what’s best for themselves and society. Where Conservatives regulate people to aid business, Liberals regulate business to keep it from harming people.”

I’ve yet to hear a better definition. Will’s wasn’t even close.