A Conservative Travesty - George Will in WaPo - not happy about Arnie

[MoonAndSun]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A224-2003Oct8.html>


<snip> "The odor of what some so-called conservatives were indispensable to producing will eventually arouse them from their swoons over Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they can inventory the damage they have done by seizing an office that just 11 months ago they proved incapable of winning in a proper election under ideal conditions.

These Schwarzenegger conservatives -- now, there is an oxymoron for these times -- have embraced a man who is, politically, Hollywood's culture leavened by a few paragraphs of Milton Friedman. They have given spurious plausibility to a meretricious accusation that Democrats are using to poison American politics, the charge that Florida 2000 was part of a pattern of Republican power grabs outside the regular election process.

Schwarzenegger's conservative supporters have furled the flag of "family values" while mocking their participation in the anti-Clinton sex posse. They were unoffended by Schwarzenegger's flippant assertions that only the "religiously fanatic" oppose human cloning -- not just stem cell research but cloning. These faux conservatives' new hero said that only "right-wing crazies" supported the proposal on Tuesday's ballot to bar the state from collecting the racial data that fuel the racial spoils system.




Mr "bow-tie" Will doesn't seem to think that Arnie is a real conservative, and is very dismissive of those who voted for this repuke for gov. LOL

[CBHagman]

1. He also points out that a millionaire financed the recall

...thus putting the lie to the claim that this was grass-roots democracy in its purest form.

[Cha]

2. Good! swartzen is getting it from both sides.

"power grab", indeed! Thanks for bringing it up, will.

MoonAndSun..you're busy today! :D

[MoonAndSun]

3. Yes I am, zidzi.....

I am at work today but am doing computer work instead of being out in the field like I usually am. It is a gorgeous day here in the Valley of the Sun and I wish I could be out in it today. LOL

[tom_paine]

4. The Old Ones will always wake up at the last moment

They have the greatest span-of-time memories.

The conservatism of Goldwater and Raygun were only intermediate stages on the way toward Bushevik Empire, as Reaygun's "teflon" (we see now inretrospect) was less a "natural" phenomena than the product of the embryonic influences of the Right-Wing Sub-Media (aided and abetted, as always, by clueless Democrats).

So, Will is aghast by the ability of conservatives to embrace hypocrisy because it shatters the previous barriers of hypocrisy?

Too little, too late, Will and Safire. As we have seen, nothing could shake them from their ultimate support of the Busheviks, though they are actual coumnists (perhaps the last of the conservatives columnists now that they are all paid propagandists for the Busheviks).

But fuck them anyway, their sleepy awakenings mean NOTHING in an Empire. They might as well doze back off again and get in goosestep with the rest of them.

[Cha]

5. Brilliant!

:kick:

[Skittles]

6. too little, too late

that about f***ing says it all about these squawkers now.