It's gratifying to finally see some Republicans attack their own, and George Will does it with such flair. Actually, quite a few have become quite skilled at it, even more effective than Democrats.

It seems that some Republicans are embarrassed to see the crazies as representative of their party. When the verbal threats against Obama were aired and the hatred and bigotry were exposed, I think that was a tipping point for some. But hey, many Republicans welcomed them into the fold when they calulated it as an political advantage.

george will should stick to baseball, a subject he at least knows something about. he's amply demonstrated, over the past couple of decades, that he's pretty much an empty suit, merely an echo for republican fiscal talking points.

Did Will say, "heart"?

I say, no heart.

Will is using the word "heart" to define the erratic and psychotic and greedy and ugly behavior of the Bush administration and those who voted with them.

The very first college assignment I had in English comp was to deconstruct the rhetoric in a George Will article wherein he defended the gang rape of a woman in a Boston bar by citing her provocative clothing and her gall to go in the bar alone. She asked for it, dontcha know.

The actual fact is that Johnson was able to persuade about-to-be ML Mansfield to not only let him keep his old leader's suite of offices just off the senate floor (Lyndon's lavishly appointed "Taj Mahal") but also to give him the role of Chairman of the Dem senate caucus, normally a function automatically assigned to the ML.   A number of senate Dems were stunned and angry, most notably Al Gore, Sr, who directly confronted Johnson.

What is making the difference for these dudes?  What has finally put them over the edge?

The campaign that McCain is running is basically an IQ test.

George Will has been consistently mis-informed, mainly because he is ignorant--a basic failure generated by his life-long learning disabilites.  Will is incapable of reading & comprehending a simple declarative sentence; e.g., Ambassador Wilson stated that Iraq never made any attempt to acquire yellowcake from Niger.  George Will (& Buckley, Broder, Brooks, et al.) feel some genetic instinct to parse such sentences & re-write them; i.e. they publish "Joe Wilson is a liberal sympathizer unfairly attempting to undermine the Vice-President with nonsense observations from his government expense account vacation to Africa."

Because Will & his ignorant colleagues can actually spell most of the words they use (even though they seldom know the meaning), they are labelled "intellectuals" by the conservative rabble who cannot even spell "redistributionist."

W.F. Buckley ran a bogus word schtick quite often on his moronic PBS propaganda hour.  Once, I watched him utter some sesquipedalian term to the Swedish socialist Gunnar Myrdal, a proponent of the "middle way."  Myrdal replied (my paraphrase): [that word is not known to me in English or Swedish & I don't have the time to pore over dictionary pages finding almost apt meanings for insertion to a conversation in order to divert it.  What did you mean?]  Buckley droned & rambled, unable to state what he meant.

Will makes a living droning & rambling, mostly in print.  His gig is to transform mis-information into dis-information & catapult that Bu$hwa to an audience of folks who enjoy having their drivel spoonfed with a pseudo-intellectual flair.  It's as if the rightwingnutz concepts show up at a mud wrestling contest in a tuxedo.