George Will At CPAC 2010 pt.1

[vulrare]

Hmm....George Will considers himself to be a refined intellectual.Strangely the current GOP resembles more George Wallace than George Will.The Republican has turned into a regressive engine for pushing this country backwards.A economic policy straight out of the 19th century.And a social agenda that crawled out of a Prehistoric cave.I dear say the Right Wing in this country is drifting towards proto-fascism.Will the Brain still has to give cover to buffons,idiots,and demagogues.Oh the joy.....

[rubbersole79]

@vulrare

Typical unfocused, generalized,liberal attack lines.

Be specific and give examples.

[Willredd94]

@vulrare Your slander has no significance to back its claims. Proto-fascism? Please, many extreme tea partiers think Obama is a fascist. Progressivism is far closer to fascism than conservatism and libertarianism are. Hitler brought forced abortion to Poland, banned guns, socialized the economy and nationalized businesses, talk about far left! The 19th Cent. economics you are talking about is that of Jefferson, which far better than the Obama policy which is what we've been doing for decades.

[DCUPtoejuice]

I love how he denies the audience one of his lines because they clapped over it. 8:10

[DCUPtoejuice]

George and The Kraut are irreplaceable

[CONSVLTVS]

As long as Mr. Will is with us, rational discussion of vital matters remains possible. Best since William F. Buckley. See more like this collected on YouTube channel, CONSVLTVS on the RESPVBLICA.

[Gerkinstock]

@CONSVLTVS... Charles Krauthammer is great, too.

[ngoverno]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."

Alexander Fraser Tyler

[yuothineyesasian]

4:53 I think that guy came.

[Roph58]

Gorge is an idiot.

[kentamitchell]

@Roph58 George Will is a brilliant man...and you can't spell.

[Roph58]

@kentamitchell You got me,George Will is still an idiot and a shill.

[Ralph64]

@Roph58 You can't even spell Ralph64 right.

[tayl303]

@Roph58 What do you do for a living? I will bet my life your intelligence level doesn't compare to George Will's. I will bet the house your IQ is under 120, and I'm being extremely kind.

[Roph58]

@tayl303 Yes it's probably true in some way's I'am not smart as Will,but this clown talks out of both sides of his mouth,on one hand he talks about freedom,remember smart ass the republicans brought us the patriot act,a7000 page document 11 days after 911,almost like they already had it written and ready to go.How smart are you,maybe you could explain how building 7 fell at free fall speed in it's own foot print and was not hit by anything of maybe you think cement and iron burn in low temp fire

[Darusdei]

DO YOU LOVE AMERICA !!! AAAARRRRR !!!

[dancer4560]

what moronic comments. This man is extremely bright. No wonder we are in trouble with stupidity I see hear by the comments made.

[jhardknox]

agent smith

[WheatBeerByron]

This here feller sounds like a real Umerican! Next time he's in Mississippi I wonder if he will give the opening prayer at the monster truck rally.

[hitmanhart670]

LOL did those tea bagger morons in the audience even understand anything George Will was saying?

[Ralph64]

...and an applause track.

[Ralph64]

George Will is GREAT with a laugh track!!!

[boulder80]

i hate when people call themselves 'progressive independents'

The actions of the 'Progressives' in the 20th century reminds me of the later lines of Alex Tyler's 'Cycle of Nations'.

[3martijns]

Shrewd Analysis.

[3martijns]

Radical Lefty Comments on sites like these are Often by Those on the Payroll of George Soros.

[aweiss]

wow this is great

[kmg501]

Great speech, Will nails it.

[hilted6]

beaujames blindness is arrogance just as his president suffers the same arrogance and neither one can see the truth. Socialism is NOT going to prevail....go start your own country I hear theres room in iraq to do that these days. GOOOH...go there.

[BeauJames59]

Hilted, if you'd like a discussion, you're welcome to it. A few rules. Use sentences and address facts.

[hilted6]

No thanks. I prefer no rules or facts and sentences provide too much structure. Oops I think I may have come close to using a sentence. No worries won't happen again. Truth is I abhor politics and would rather be King.

[Dash277]

Great speech. Looks like it really got to BeauJame59, I love it =)

[BeauJames59]

Thank GOD for President Obama.

[fochilin]

Amen to that!

(He's done wonders for the conservative movement and FINALLY destroyed that pesky democrat party!)

[W2n1dowsx]

What dems want is power and the ability to take people's money. That is all. You can put any gloss on it you want. But you are power mongering thieves. Oh, and hypocrites.

[justinflavin]

i''ve watched and listened to all the CPAC videos - Glen Beck, Romney, Rubio , Cheney etc..

but i have to say - this guy delivered THE BEST speech of the event by a long long shot.

Love the way he mixes humour with a deadly serious message.

[BeauJames59]

I've ALWAYS said, ever since the rise of the right-wing shock jocks, starting with Rush, how really SAD it is that such a great thinker like George Will is NOT at the forefront of the conservative movement.

But the country has traded good thinking for entertainment.......

[yuothineyesasian]

I completely agree, Hannity, Limbaugh, Ingrham and the like, are what sucks about conservative ideas tiday.

All the great conservative thinkers would be shitty politicians and pundits because they have a natural prejudice for lying.

[BeauJames59]

Well, and as progressive independent that rebelled from a Democratic upbringing, I have to say this process is the movement from more issues based politics to image based, style over substance. It really began when Kennedy just LOOKED so much better than Nixon, on through Reagan's great photogenicity, if that's the word, through Clinton and now Obama. Reps and conservatives are just more attack oriented, more testosterone-based, by and large.

[Claronium780]

ignorant ones: A public option was NOT meant to be a first step towards a single payer system

[Claronium780]

the New Deal was a very good thing actually

[BeauJames59]

Of course it was. It was yet ANOTHER instance of Democrats cleaning up after market fundamentalism had caused a collapse. Clinton cleaned up after the Reagan-Bush I failings, Obama and Co are cleaning up after Bush II and Wall Street driving the economy into the ground. HOW MANY TIMES WILL IT TAKE TIL WE LEARN THE LESSONS OF HISTORY? You want another Hoover? Just vote Republican.

[RenShiWu]

Don't be a fool. The financial crisis was caused because government interfered with the natural behavior of the economy by making it easier for people (especially people who never should have gotten loans) to get housing loans. Blame the Democrats' babies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for that. Equally the Democrats' ally (and Obama's own) ACORN organization. Funny that you think Herbert Hoover was a disaster when FDR's tenure featured a 17% unemployment rate for eight years worth of New Deal...

[Claronium780]

well Hoover actually caused it - how bad would things have been if FDR and the New Deal never happened? No one can say for sure, but definetely things would NOT have been better !

[norr4636]

@Claronium780 Hoover was a Progressive Republican.

[dwatson67lobo]

What??? Even FDR's Secretary of Treasury stated in 1938 that they ran up enormous deficits and umemployment rose and stayed high, the New Deal prolonged the Depression a minimum of 7 years. Bush and Obama have prolonged this recession by doing the same with these bogus stimulus packages.

[BeauJames59]

feel free to cite this if you have facts for this........

[BeauJames59]

Sorry Ren, the Republican party line, and the market fundamentalism of Reagan are both lying on the trash heap of history.......

[herbs814]

@BeauJames59

Markets never fail. All failures are the fault of government. The problem with the Reagan era was there was too much government and not enough market capitalism. The same problem our nation has had for a hundred years now.

[BeauJames59]

You start with a statement of faith, and you're more than welcome have whatever superstition you want. Your statement is the equivalent of saying, "The world is flat, all roundness is due to demonic trickery." Or you could have started with a superstition like Republican leader Sarah Palin, "The earth is 4000 years old, and men walked the earth with dinosaurs."

[BeauJames59]

In the real world, the market fundamentalism of Ronald Reagan has now been consigned to the trash heap of history along with communism.

[herbs814]

@BeauJames59

In the real world, market "fundamentalism" is always superior to any other economic system. In the real world, markets are always right and government always infringe on the liberty and prosperity of markets.

[herbs814]

@BeauJames59

No, it is an economic fact that markets correct every problem. It is an economic fact that the cause of all problems is government interference in the function of markets. Why are you PRETENDING that these facts do not exist?

[BeauJames59]

Simply calling something "an economic fact" doesn't make it one. Tacking the word "fact" onto your superstition doesn't make it a fact.

You can also stop dreaming we live in a nation founded on Christianity. It's based on Natural Law Theory. The proof? NOWHERE in our laws is "Jesus Christ" mentioned. Nowhere is the Bible quoted to support anything. Growing up is hard, but it can be done, I wish you the best, but sometimes the pain of truth has to be realized first. BLESSINGS!

[herbs814]

@BeauJames59

Markets correct all problems. Government intrusion in markets creates all problems.

[salharmonic]

@BeauJames59

You get stupider as you go along - keep it up this is entertaining!

[BeauJames59]

Actually, I've tried to be provacative, and I didn't need to do that. It's such a funny time that the country is SO divisive, and yet we'd both agree it is SO great to be an American. We're SO frickin blessed, the resources, the freedoms, heck Bobdamn decent sidewalks.....try to find thos in Mexico outside of the downtowns....have a good day......

[RenShiWu]

a doubling of the national debt, the greatest retraction of industrial output in history, restricted freedoms, and liabilities that we're still dealing with today. All the great economic boom periods are associated with Republican governance: the Gilded Age, the 20s, the 50s, the 80s, and even the 90s (when Bill Clinton, spineless popularity hound that he was) acceded to the Republican Congress' agenda regarding free trade, welfare reform, and paying down the debt.

[BeauJames59]

Hoover- Depression.

FDR- Recovery

Reagan-Bush, NO balanced budget EVER submitted.

Clinton- Balanced Budget

Geo. Bush- Greatest Deficit Spender in history

Obama- Crisis averted.

[BeauJames59]

These are the facts. It doesn't mean the Republican Myth Machine and the Conservative Media will respond.

[BeauJames59]

"Facts are stupid things."- Ronald Reagan.

A man who PUBLICLY stated that he was in Germany during WWII when he NEVER left Hollywood.

Altzheimer's was NO surprise, it kicked in around 1978.

[fochilin]

Well, that's bullshit.

But if it were true--hey--at least he had enough brains left to beat that idiot Carter and save this country from disaster and the world from communists like you.

[salharmonic]

@BeauJames59

That's all you got?

[Claronium780]

well who;s the part of entitlement? Republicans ! Wealthy conservatives want to keep every greedy cent they "earn" for themselves - even though they have much much more than many people could ever even dream of

[Claronium780]

Actually, Bush helped people realize how horrible Conservatives are, that's why DEMs won BIG in 2008 and won't lose by too much in 2010 ! and Obama will be re-elected in 2012 !

[yakyakyak69]

We must first PURGE this NeoCon from the GOP!

REAL Conservatives want Individual LIBERTY, Personal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Federal Gov't, Sound Money, FREE Competition among FREE States & FREE people.

END U.S. Imperialism with 737 US military bases occupying 130+ nations PRODUCING debt, hatred, resistance and Jihad!

NO Isolationism (FREE Trade NOT Interventionism) & keep Corporations OUT of the taxpayers pockets by ENDING the Welfare/Warfare State Crony-Corporatism.

[ErikNikolai]

I like how a "tight buns" fitness workout video is listed as most relevant to this one. ;)

George Will did great.

[Monty1994]

New Rule CPAC, don't let people with annoying laughs next to the microphone during a speach.

i like the speech but almost can't listen to it because of that lady's laughter

[scrosnoe]

Brilliant commentary; artfully delivered! We would do well to pay attention to not only what is said but how it is said and to whom.

Gridlock is good. I am off to go shovel some sand and share this video with others.

Thank you George Will for this message to a room full of people who will make a difference by Restoring the Republic with all its checks and balances in place for the next generation.

[FAHayek89]

With Buckley, Kirk, and the old National Review crowd gone, Will is one of the intellectual heavy weights of the American right. The right will do far better if it turns to its men of ideas than Ms. Palin and Mr. Beck.

[usaleftistsareidiots]

Nice try.

[FAHayek89]

I'm sorry. I did forget. She is executiveey, being that she was a small town mayor and a state Governor. Then again, she violated her moral obligation to the people who elected her and stepped down as governor to make money selling books. Oh, and she was governor of a state with a smaller population than Cincinnati. That reasoning might qualify Jerry Springer to be president.

[jawday12345]

Absolutely agree. Both would do well to spend some time in serious study with the George Wills of the conservative intellectual wing. The common touch is good, but it does us no good to connect with people on a visceral level if we cannot then connect with their minds and instill in them a sense of the inherent rightness of freedom conquering dependency. God knows they don't get any of that at school. Most don't even get it at home.

[rdbatl]

thanks for posting this it's just great!