'This Is Not My Party': George Will Goes from GOP to Unaffiliated
By Nicholas Ballasy
June 24, 2016
Political columnist George Will answers audience questions during a meeting of The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan on Nov. 4, 2015, in Benton Township, Mich. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)
WASHINGTON Conservative columnist George Will told PJM he has officially left the Republican Party and urged conservatives not to support presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump even if it leads to a Democratic victory in the 2016 presidential election.
Will, who writes for the Washington Post, acknowledged it is a little too late for the Republican Party to find a replacement for Trump but had a message for Republican voters.
Make sure he loses. Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House, Will said during an interview after his speech at a Federalist Society luncheon.
Will said he changed his voter registration this month from Republican to unaffiliated in the state of Maryland.
This is not my party, Will said during his speech at the event.
He mentioned House Speaker Paul Ryans (R-Wis.) endorsement of Trump as one of the factors that led him to leave the party.
Will, a Fox News contributor, said a President Trump with no opposition from a Republican-led Congress would be worse than a Hillary Clinton presidency with a Republican-led Congress.
Will did not say if he would vote for the Libertarian Party nominee, former Gov. Gary Johnson (R-N.M.), telling the crowd he does not know whether or not the Libertarian ticket is going to help or hurt Clinton.
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BorisY posted on 2016-06-25 16:51:29 Reply Private Reply
#2: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#0)
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'Will sounds not a little like David Brooks, Michael Lind, Jim Pinkerton and others from the Hamiltonian wing of the right. He laments the decrepit state of our public infrastructure. He wants more funding for basic science and research. He says hed like to double the budget of the National Institutes of Health. He misses the old days of Americans can-do optimism, of the rigorous pursuit of the public good, as opposed to todays sagging spirit and collective malaise. He rejects the idea of a severe nightwatchman state and says, anyway, were never going back to small government. During this riff, and not for the last time, Will quotes his old pal, the late Sen. Pat Moynihan, the neoconservative turned conventional liberal Democrat.' - September 16, 2013, www.theamericanconservati...eorge-wills-unsatisfying- explanation-for-libertarian-evolution/
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-25 18:23:26 Reply Private Reply
#3: rlk To: BorisY (#0)
Did he say why, or was this just another product of a hysterically distorted mentality issued as a confident decree.
rlk posted on 2016-06-25 18:27:33 Reply Private Reply
#4: ConservingFreedom To: rlk, BorisY (#3)
Well, Dubya signed into law some jawdropping increases in discretionary nondefense spending, which were sent to him by a GOP Congress - whereas the last time the feds ran a surplus was when a President Clinton was opposed by a GOP Congress.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-25 18:35:36 Reply Private Reply
#5: no gnu taxes To: BorisY (#0)
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-f-wills-sports-machine/n9910
no gnu taxes posted on 2016-06-25 18:39:20 Reply Private Reply
#6: Stoner To: BorisY (#0)
Well George, here is my opinion of you, and it is better expressed by Mr. Ted Nugent. Set down George, and listen close
Stoner posted on 2016-06-25 20:30:11 Reply Private Reply
#7: Vicomte13 To: BorisY (#0)
Trump offers to make the party populist, representing the interests of middle and working class people, but it's in the interest of the moneymen to EXPLOIT those people, not to improve their lot.
The big thing this election is that the control of the Supreme Court for the next 30 years will be determined. Social conservatives will lose absolutely everything if Hillary is elected and installs her judges. But the moneymen of the Republican Party will not lose their money power. Hillary is already a strong ally of Wall Street. The moneymen know they are protected, and do not (and never did) give a damn about gay marriage, abortion or immigration. In fact, moneymen generally like a nice, liberal, tolerant society, because it makes it easier to handle mistakes, and when you've got lots of money, you have lots of options.
The sycophantic desire of middle class Republican people to kiss the ass of the moneymen and continue to support their party, no matter what, is really pathetic to behold.
Trump offers the prospect of building a new coalition, built on numbers of workers and voters, not money. Of course the Establishment hates that.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-06-25 21:39:57 Reply Private Reply
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#10: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY, Vicomte13 (#9)
Big money has openly proclaimed its support for flooding this nation with "cheap" (for them) Third world labor - do you think that's in the interest of conservative middle class people, Boris?
Class warfare is now a valid concept because the corporate class has declared war on the middle class.
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#13: Vicomte13 To: ConservingFreedom (#10)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-06-26 16:14:52 Reply Private Reply
#14: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#11)
Even The Donald recognizes that a flood of low-skilled Third Worlders is a killing force to today's economy. Stop sucking corporate/GOPe c**k and get with the times.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 16:20:19 Reply Private Reply
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#17: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#16)
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerbergs personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
- https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 16:41:57 Reply Private Reply
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Government should impose neither "diversity" nor uniformity - it's got quite big enough a job simply defending individual liberties.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 17:06:11 Reply Private Reply
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- https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 17:08:21 Reply Private Reply
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And stop importing more of them.
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#25: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#24)
Most of the ones currently coming have little to invest and less skills with which to work. If we put a flat moratorium on immigration we'll gain by subtraction.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 18:03:55 Reply Private Reply
#26: Vicomte13 To: BorisY (#15)
It makes me feel sorry for you, which is why I slum it down here with you, to try to teach you. It's my own form of taking up the White Man's Burden.
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BorisY posted on 2016-06-26 18:37:56 Reply Private Reply
#28: ConservingFreedom To: Vicomte13 (#26)
Their masters tell them the victory is theirs - and they swallow it because deep down they think that's the closest they can ever get to real victory.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 18:41:34 Reply Private Reply
#29: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#27)
Red herring - there are options other than Marxism on the one hand or on the other hand corporate globalists gutting the American middle class. Offering a third way is what got Trump's campaign as far as it's come.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 18:44:13 Reply Private Reply
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#31: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#30)
No, this is the third way, from https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform: "a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages."
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 19:02:13 Reply Private Reply
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#33: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#32)
For citizens. Foreigners have no rights vis-a-vis this country, nor do citizens have a "right" to import foreigners to undermine our standard of living.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-26 19:41:29 Reply Private Reply
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#36: Vicomte13 To: BorisY (#34)
Why, then, are you worried about or passionately commenting on politics AT ALL? This too shall pass and mean nothing. So stay focused on Jesus and stay out of politics.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-06-26 22:44:35 Reply Private Reply
#37: BorisY To: Vicomte13 (#36)
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Liberation Theology at work in America..........
Christianized Marxism................
vatican is a new world order institution........
their members are in both parties .............
PROTESTANTS IN THE USA 150 MILLION...............
JEWISH IN THE USA 6.5 MILLION ......
CATHOLICS IN THE USA 69 MILLION ...........
How many Protestant supreme court justices ? .......
zero......
SIX ROMAN CATHOLIC AND THREE JEWISH......
WITH ANTONIN SCALIA GONE AND MERRICK GARLAND IN IT WILL BE FOUR JEWISH AND FIVE ROMAN CATHOLIC .......
WHAT IS ... GOING ON --- HERE .
http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/huckabee-to-george-will-dont-let-the-door-whack-you/? cat_orig=politics
BorisY posted on 2016-06-27 16:34:19 Reply Private Reply
#38: Vicomte13 To: BorisY (#37)
You're right. Why so many Jews? 9 Catholics would be best.
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