“About
twenty years after a conservative leaves the scene or dies, he becomes
acceptable,” to the media-left, George Will observed on Sunday’s This
Week. “They say, if only people were more like Ronald Reagan and that
wonderful libertarian curmudgeon Barry Goldwater.” Will recalled: “I
worked for Bill Buckley, voted for Barry Goldwater and knew Ronald
Reagan and no one talked about them on the left that way at the time.”
Will was responding to Jeb Bush’s media-embraced scolding of the
GOP, which George Stephanopoulos helpfully displayed on screen. “Since
Ronald Reagan,” Will pointed out, “the Republican Party has given its
presidential nomination four times to the Bush family. Other times to
Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Where is the extremist in that
lot?”
Will bore in: “Now, Jeb Bush’s father is celebrated today for a
statesmanship that consisted of breaking the promise he made to the
American people of not raising taxes.”
George Will Takes on Media-Left's 'Ronald Reagan Couldn't Win in Today's GOP' Mantra
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