Did anyone read George Will's column the other day?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

The one where he ACTUALLY went AGAINST the bush administration? I thought I would fall over. I had to re-read it TWICE to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me.

I closed the paper and thought to myself "the worm turns."

This is the SAME GUY who, in the run-up to the war, wrote a column about how the world was convinced Germany didn't have enough power to start another war after WWI, but they did because they were doing it on the sly even WITH inspectors checking out the place (George do love to give a history lesson to all us unedumakated bumpkins!). That was his case for how, for all we know, even with inspectors all over Iraq, SH probably STILL had HUGE stores of WMDs.

I cut out that article and made copies of it. I am going to write him soon and remind him of it, ask him what he thinks of that article now.

But to read him now, criticizing the bush administration with almost no reservations or caveats, is JUST weird. Are some right-wingers distancing themselves from him? Do they sense blood in the water?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. A link would be nice.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. Sorry here

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/will/story/9184291p-10109787c.html

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

3. One line I took particular offense to, though was this:

"But if any Americans want to be governed by politicians who short-circuit complex discussions by recklessly imputing racism to those who differ with them, such Americans do not usually turn to the Republican choice in our two-party system."

Right because Republicans are SO above recklessly imputing racism. Uh-huh.

But this was good:

This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts. Thinking is not the reiteration of bromides about how "all people yearn to live in freedom" (McClellan). And about how it is "cultural condescension" to doubt that some cultures have the requisite aptitudes for democracy (Bush). And about how it is a "myth" that "our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture" because "ours are not Western values; they are the universal values of the human spirit." (Tony Blair)

[izzie]

4. if Kerry was not for some type war maybe he would get Wills vote.

Frankly I think Bush and Co is falling apart at the seams but it may be just a day that I have had to many cups of coffee.

[WMliberal]

5. yeah, i was curious to see the reasoning.

The jist was that Bush wasn't being "truly" conservative enough for Will's taste.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

6. Yeah

that sort of startled me at the end, but then I realized I was lulled into thinking he was actually gonna nail him good.

He just needs to take the "neo-" off his label, that's all, according to Will.

STILL it is HIGHLY unusual to see George Will saying ANYTHING untoward about bush. And he has a few little zingers in there.