Mark_L
3560
I absolutely welcome him- though he should can it with the snarky comments- but I just don’t know that anyone’s listening.
The divides between conservative and liberal columnists aren’t ideological anymore, and frankly, they haven’t been for a while. It comes down to whether you’re for the rule of law or against the rule of law. Any conservative – especially any conservative – that has taken this long to come around doesn’t deserve a cookie.
So no cookie for George Will or Steve Schmidt. Bill Kristol can have a cookie. But not those other guys.
-Tom
Mark_L
3562
…I really don’t care to give Bill Kristol a cookie.
Timex
3564
George will abandoned the GOP over a year ago. This isn’t a recent thing.
Yeah. His openly advocating voting D might be new. Not sure. He’s been loudly anti Trump all along.
Timex
3566
I think he actually left the GOP, officially, shortly after Trump was elected. Around the same time he left Fox news.
Steve Schmidt didn’t just come around. He’s been here for some time. I’ll give him a whole bag of cookies.
(George Will still gets a bag of dicks).
Just a sampling:
I’m not yet ready to give cookies to a man that willingly helped foist the Trump beta program (Palin) on America. Just black coffee and saltines from me until he’s ready to come clean with himself on how the leaders of the GOP, himself included, brought this on themselves by lowering their standards below the basement.
If we want to end terrorism, it’s time to just do whatever the terrorists want.
They don’t get cookies if it’s taking them this long to advocate against the Republican party. That’s my point. Opposing the GOP isn’t a matter of ideology and it hasn’t been for a while. It’s a matter of whether you support the rule of law, and it’s been that way since before the election. Steve Schmit and George Will don’t get a cookie because they took too long realizing, “Oh, it’s not just this Trump fellow, it’s the entire party!” Unless I’m missing something, isn’t that the recent kerfluffle about George Will and Steve Schmidt? They finally decided it was a good idea to stop calling themselves Republicans?
Trump and the GOP are synonymous. Any Republican or conservative just now realizing that gets no cookies! None. Not even bland generic brand sugar cookies.
-Tom
Timex
3572
No dude, he did it a long time ago. Back in 2016.
This is what I’m talking about, which charmtrap linked upthread:
Look, if George Will left the Republicans in 2016, great. But it took him until today to throw in with the Democrats for the mid-terms? So I’m not giving him a cookie. There are two options: support the Democrats trying to flip Congressional seats or leave the GOP in power. Anyone who pussyfoots around in No Man’s Land isn’t helping.
-Tom
EDIT: From that editorial:
One party supports the rule of law. One doesn’t. Continuing to characterize the party that supports the rule of law as a “basket of deplorables” is not cookie-worthy. George Will acts like it’s still about ideology.
In some good news Trumpsters are still by and large left to play with themselves as they are ostracized.
“One match on an online dating app told an administration official, “Thanks but no thanks. Just Googled you and it said you were a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Go f— yourself.””
Sullivan is the worst. I can’t believe he keeps finding magazines to give him space.
Nesrie
3576
This is old news. They were complaining about this last year. I didn’t expect anything to change, maybe they were though.
In the words of Don Jr., I love it.
I think this, from 2 years ago, is worth at least half a cookie, though:
“He has an advantage on me,” Will said on Fox News Sunday. “He can say everything he knows about any subject in 140 characters, and I can’t.”
Cookies are fattening.
But I think you need to go back and watch your Sesame Street shows on sharing.
Man, what’s a conservative in the public eye to do. Some folks on here are arguing that the Flakes and the Corkers should stay and fight, some that should be put in re-educationcamps,and most that should be treated like Nazi’s and punched.
It certainly is the case that sometime in 2016 it was easy to predict that Trump would be a disaster for the country and the Republican party and distance yourself from Trump’s Republican party. It didn’t seem that on Nov 6. that it would make much of difference if you figured like I did that the lesser of two evil (Hillary) is less evil and voted for her, or made a protest vote (and outside a handful of states it didn’t really make a difference.)
I don’t think it was possible to predict in 2016 that virtually the whole party would abandon party principal some of which have been with Republican party from days of Lincoln.
If you believe, like I do, that free trade is extremely important and that erecting tariffs, is likely to result in a trade war. That a trade war could trigger a global depression, and putting the world in a depression is right up there with putting kids in a cages as the worse and most evil shit a government can do.
Well then urging to Republicans to vote for a Democrats is a really bad idea. There isn’t much difference between Trump trade policies and Bernie Sanders. While Chuck Schumer’s trade polices would be better, they are still awful. Back in 2016, I certainly didn’t expect the whole fucking Republican party to cave to Trump on tariffs even with Bob Corker calling them out in.
Despite my public cynicism, I spent all of 2017, think this latest Trump outrate is when the good Republican will stop Trump. Eventually, it stopped mattering, and I realized that they had no principals and they pretty much all need to be thrown out. Actually, I think we have found the line, putting kids in cages is unacceptable even to most
Republicans.
