When your wife is on the payroll of a candidate it’s a conflict of
interest for the husband to be bashing or praising a certain candidate. It
smells of nepotism.
George Will leaving the Republican Party suits me just fine, I haven’t
liked him since 2008 when his wife was working for a candidate that will was
always touting. This election cycle Mari Maseng Will was
an advisor to Walker’s campaign, according to the Washington Examiner. The Examiner goes
on to note all of the times Will praised Walker as a “pure Reaganite” and the
GOP’s “most potent” candidate. Will’s
wife previously worked for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as a campaign spokeswoman in
2011, according to Politico. be
One of the senior voices in the conservative commentariat has now
officially changed his party registration from “R” to unaffiliated. George
Will, who writes for the Washington Post, told PJ Media this week that he has formally quit the GOP and become a man without a
party.
Conservative columnist George
Will told PJM he has officially left the Republican Party and urged
conservatives not to support presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump even if it
leads to a Democratic victory in the 2016 presidential election. Will, who
writes for the Washington Post, acknowledged it is a “little too late” for the
Republican Party to find a replacement for Trump but had a message for
Republican voters.
“Make
sure he loses. Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House,” Will
said during an interview after his speech at a Federalist Society luncheon.
Will
said he changed his voter registration this month from Republican to
“unaffiliated” in the state of Maryland.
“This
is not my party,” Will said during his speech at the event.
And what of the impact of
helping elect Hillary Clinton as we “grit our teeth for four years,” as he puts
it? What about the Supreme Court? He manages an answer for that question as
well.
PJM
asked Will about concerns among Republicans that a Hillary Clinton victory guarantees
another liberal justice on the Supreme Court. In response, Will said a
Republican president is not “the answer” to a conservative-leaning Supreme
Court.
“Sure,
but I’m also concerned with the fact that I do not really believe Republicans
think clearly enough about what they really want in judges. Republicans have
given us Earl Warren, Brennan, John Paul Stevens, Burger, who was kind of
mediocre, Blackmun. Having a Republican president is not an answer in itself,”
he said.
Leave the party if you wish. The days of Trump as a factor in Republican
politics will end, either with a loss in November or after his time in office
if he prevails. The national debate over conservative versus liberal values
will continue after all of us are in our graves. Unfortunately, the real damage
in the short term will come from those who allow this single moment in
electoral history to blind them to the long term objectives.
