George F. Will Quotes
… [a] blowbriating ignoramous … Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
Trump was a very wealthy businessman and celebrity who had flirted with running for the Republican nomination for President. He then supported Mitt Romney, but continued with his birther accusations against President Obama. The Birthers were extremists and any racists who perpetrated the absurd story that Obama was born in Kenya and not in Hawaii where his family insists he was born, where the local newspapers at the tie report his birth, where his birth certificate shows he was born, where the local hospital records show he was born. Trump made it very difficult for Romney who was embarrassed because a major supporter was uttering such nonsense, but also because, although a small minority of “crazies”, the birthers were all activists in Romney’s Conservative Republican base and Romney was vigorously courting that base.
George Will, Political Columnist, Senate Staff Assistant, ABC This Week, May 27, 2012
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Roosevelt was addressing the famous progressive Pennsylvania Governor, Amos Pinchot, 1873-1944. See {589635} or {61590} for an example of a Pinchot Quotation. This was the first time the phrase "lunatic fringe" was used. It has been popular in politics ever since.
Harding was not the brightest bulb on the political scene but was a very affable and personable man.
This quotation is important for two reasons. First, this is one of the most negative attacks on an opponent in a Presidential election in all of American History—to call the opponent ‘dangerous’ to the nation. Second, it is a classic example of two close political friends and allies, after a falling out. Roosevelt had in effect made Taft President in 1908, but Roosevelt was extremely disappointed as Taft was controllable by the Republican Party bosses, who hated Roosevelt. TR then challenged the then sitting President for the Republican Presidential nomination. At that time there were 12 states that had primary elections and Roosevelt won 9 of them. La Follette won 2 and Taft only 1. The majority of the states did not then have primaries allowing the party bosses to make the decision of which candidate to support. Party leaders generally did not like Roosevelt who was a major reformer, so they voted for Taft at the convention pushing him over the top when he clearly was the less popular of all 3 candidates. Roosevelt, outraged by the party bosses overriding the will of the people, then walked out of the convention and organized his own convention and TR ran as the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party). In the general election Roosevelt got more votes than Taft, but the two of them had split the majority Republican vote and the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson was the winner.
by stopping all interest payments on Federal Debts. because Jefferson would dismantle the Navy. Hamilton, a Federalist was supporting John Adams for a second term, and created lies that made the 2012 Republican prevarications against Barack Obama seem like innocent fibs. These 3 lies covered the areas which candidates ever since have gotten mileage out of attacking the opposition. 1) He is fiscally irresponsible and would ruin the economy. 2) He does not support the Constitution. 3) He is unpatriotic and would weaken the military. These have been the 3 favorite areas for lying about an opponent ever since. As in {629237} each of the lies has a grain of truth in it to make it more believable. Jefferson had been an opponent of the Federal Government assuming the States’ Revolutionary War debts, but he never favored defaulting on the interest after the debt was assumed and when elected always paid the interest. Jefferson was representing the United States in France when the Constitutional Convention was held and was not a part of its creation. He was critical of parts of the Constitution and was one of the many who demanded that a Bill of Rights be added. Therefore Hamilton claimed he was against the Constitution. Jefferson was opposed to a standing professional army. It turned out that when he was President. he not only built up the Navy but used it to attack the Barbary States who were assaulting our ships. These were just the biggest lies; the Federalists had many more, and Hamilton enumerated several in this article.
1st Earl of Oxford. While clearly a gross overgeneralization, the Austrian leadership were in the process of making some very stupid policy decisions that led to WW I and the destruction and breakup of their empire.
Donald Trump had won the presdiency by winning a majority of the votes of the Electoral College. However his opponent Hillary Clinton garnered about 2 million more votes. Several other presidents have won with a minority vote. These occurances did not affect the Presidents' legitimacy as the Electoral College was specified in the Constitution, However, it did undercut the concept that the President had a mandate. Other presidents just carried on and either earded the respect of the majoprity of AMericans or did not over time. Howevewr, Trump, who was so sensitive and fragile about his image, kept responding to comedians like Bee by claiming that the only reason he lost the poular vote was voter fraud by illegal immigrants. However he never offered any evidence of such and there were no convictions for same or even arrests and trials.
George Frederick Will is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.
