George Will Leaves the Republican Party over Trump: ‘Make sure he loses’

[kpete]

WASHINGTON – 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.


https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/06/24/this-is-not-my-party-george-will-goes-from-gop-to-unaffiliated/

[Frustratedlady]

1. Glad he went "unaffiliated" because he isn't a Democrat.

The Republican party is what people like George Will have made of it. No sympathy from this base.

[ToxMarz]

21. I'd like to see him unaffiliated from a lot more that just the Republican party

[Scarsdale]

64. Amen to that.

Pompous, self-aggrandizing arse. As a democratic supporter, I say we do not want this person in the party.

[kairos12]

67. Will is currently searching his theosarus for a response to ou.

you.

[Chemisse]

2. Good for him.

I have to respect those Republicans who will not simply vote in lock-step with their Party. That means they stand for something. It differs a lot from what I believe, but it's based on principles rather than self-interest.

They make Paul Ryan look like the sleaze that he is.

[tblue37]

44. Except that self-interest IS the core Republican principle. nt

[corkhead]

3. While I congratulate him for coming to his senses, let it be clear that our "big tent"

isn't quite big enough to keep him out of the rain.

[Craig234]

56. He didn't come to his senses

It's just one bad set of views and another.

[sofa king]

4. "I've created a mahn-ster!"

[murielm99]

55. No kidding.

Will and some of the other repubbie chatterers need to own up to the fact that they created Trump the candidate. The same goes for the tea party.

[roamer65]

5. I recommend the Johnson/Weld ticket for him.

Those two sounded more mainstream the other night on CNN than Trumpf.

[Zambero]

6. More to follow

The GOP has essentially engineered its own train wreck. Those who retain a future vision for the party are concluding that it needs to be properly blown apart and re-assembled before it can be a viable force in national politics once again. It may take them longer quite a bit longer than 4 years however.

[Separation]

62. My wife joked that this is some elaborate joke.

Something along the lines that Ivanka and Chelsea are good friends. Add to that, that Trump and the Clintons know each other and that he is gonna run such a horribly out of control campaign that Hillary will be voted into office.

Sounds far fetched, but Im sure if I googled that, there are probably hundreds or thousands of people typing that past their tin foiled basement.

[struggle4progress]

7. "Who is this man and why is he in my bed this morning?"

[yardwork]

9. Thread win!

I posted before seeing yours. Yours says it better.

[47of74]

41. LOL

[AllyCat]

58. Classic! That is exactly it!!

[Akamai]

66. Maybe because of "beer goggles" or "fear goggles?"

Also reminds me of the TV ad of the sight-impaired woman who opens the outside door and let's in a raccoon, thinking it's her cat.

Donald Trump is certainly not your parent's candidate unless your parents wore white sheets and celebrated ignorance.

[yardwork]

8. This is partly your fault, George.

This all started in the 1970s and you were one of the architects. You were wrong, George, and your greed and hubris messed up the U.S.

[WIProgressive88]

32. Yup. The Republican Elites have been busy opening their party's doors to bigots and crazies

for decades. Now the bigots and crazies have taken over, and people like Will, Ryan, and The Koch Brothers want to pretend that they're on some sort of moral high ground when the fact is that if one of the GOP Establishment's candidates had won, they would be courting the same constituency that put Trump over the top. They've been happily feeding this monster--they only regret that now they can't control it. I can't wait to see these bastards have their asses handed to them come November, and I hope, and expect, that it will be a defeat that will leave them down for a longgg time.

[yardwork]

33. I hope we win back the states and Congress.

I remember George Will's Newsweek columns in the 1970s. My high school civics teacher was a big fan, so we had to write papers on them.

Xenophobia, racism, nationalism, it was all there.

[WIProgressive88]

35. Ugh...what the hell?! Papers on George Will columns?! You have my sympathy, my friend.

[yardwork]

40. It was highly educational.

[awoke_in_2003]

47. It pays to read (or listen if the radio)

to the other side from time to time. You cant beat them if you don't know how they "think". Yes, it can be taxing.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Finally encountered a turd that's too big for even him to swallow.

[SheriffBob]

11. ANOTHER death rattle from the republican

dictatorship, lol.

[Andy823]

25. So what does this mean?

Will you vote for Trump, or for Hillary? Just curious.

[rhett o rick]

38. Oh please!

[sangfroid]

65. Is it loyalty oath time already?

nt

[chknltl]

27. Well stated.

I too feel that our democracy requires ar the very least 2 viable parties. Pointing out how a majority party (in this case our own), can become split by the outside influence of Big Money is well said too.

[irisblue]

29. I bet a moderate/conservative type of Reps

will assemble some type of political party. The hardcore rightwing isn't going anywhere as long as Koch dark money keeps funding things.

[tom_kelly]

48. Wasn't one of those koch boys on the verge of endorsing HRC in an interview?

[irisblue]

51. no not really the April 2016 "interview" on ABC

w/ Stephanopoulos was more about how he was very lukewarm about Reps. Dark Money by Jane Mayer is an excellent book about their hard core John Birch - libertarian leanings.

[Hekate]

13. KnR George Will

[rurallib]

14. the party of wealth and privilege and lack of empathy

selects a rich, privileged man who cares not one whit about anyone but himself and George Will, one of the voices of said party can't stand it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. The GOP is reaping what it sowed.

Enjoy your shit sandwich motherfuckers.

[FuzzyRabbit]

16. News for George Will

George, you are one of the creators of the current mess that is the Republican Party. My mother taught me to clean up my own mess; I guess yours didn't teach you to do that.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. +100x

George Will's vitriol over the years sewed the seeds.

The Tea Party rise from Rick Santelli's tirade against Obama's
desire to help the unemployed with mortgage relief was only
an extension of the rigid thinking of right wing ideologues.

[uponit7771]

28. +1, wtf did he expect

[Cosmocat]

34. He was/is an enabler

He is soft spoken and not prone to the outlandish, completely batshit crazy stuff the party has seen increasingly since the 90s.

But, he enabled Trump like so many other more "moderate" republicans by excusing or at best not speaking out over the last 25 years when republicans/conservatives have said or done the endless stream of mean spirited, crazy as shit they have done, or the millions of times they have whistled at the bigotry Trump out and out espouses.

Trump didn't happen to the republican party ...

[Vogon_Glory]

39. I suspect that Will, like Buckaroo Bush

I suspect that Will, like Buckaroo Bush, grew up in a house where colored folks cleaned up after his messes.

[lunatica]

18. My response? Get fucking lost Will!

[Wounded Bear]

19. You want some sympathy, Georgie Boy?...

It's in the dictionary, somewhere between shit and syphilis.

[uhnope]

20. OMG. I despise George Will and yet even he can't take Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

22. This isn't the Onion?

[Night Watchman]

42. Trump Smells Much Worse

And he will make me cry if elected!

[RAFisher]

23. The GOP establishment wants Trump to lose. It will teach the GOP base a lesson.

They want Trump to lose to show that a racist xenophobe can't win a general election. That's why I don't understand the replace Trump argument. The GOP base will pick someone just as insane in 2020.

[MisterP]

24. maybe Brooks can be next--that'd be two upper-class elitist twits who told the victims of

neoliberalism that their time was over
and then they WONDER where Trumpy came from

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. Loved what Will said about the likelihood of Trump staying "presidential"..

Said it was like going up to the Rolling Stones and asking Mick or Keith to stop playing rock and start playing chamber music

[Metro135]

30. Republicans should "grit their teeth" for four years and vote for Hillary?

Does this idiot think that ANY of their presumptive nominees would be better for the U.S. than Clinton or Sanders?

President Cruz? Christie? Bush? Santorum? How about President Fiorina? Or President Jindal?

I mean . . . PUH-LEEZE

[libodem]

31. Have never liked George Will

But I appreciate anyone who stands on principle. Good for him.

[Volaris]

57. George Wills only principle is What's Good for George Will.

He wants trump to lose and lose huge so he can go back to The Base and tell them 'see we tried it your way and look at what you did. You need to keep paying me MOAR MONIES to tell you what's best.

Fuck him. If the loss is bad enough, he will have to own his part in it. I want the whole damned thing destroyed over there...reduced to a regional party that exists county by county and that's IT.

I want to taste tears, all around. FOR DECADES.

[deminks]

36. You and Turd Blossom and all the rat f*ckers and swift boaters

wanted to create a never ending GOPer and PNAC empire. This is your doing. This is the the reality you created. Trump is the ideal candidate for you. He is the logical conclusion to your policies. You and the Kochs cannot run away from it. We will not let you. We will not forget.

[Vogon_Glory]

37. But he'll be back. Furthermore, I would NOT Welcome

But he'll be back.

Furthermore, I would no more sit George Will by the Democratic campfires than the party-changing reactionary Dixiecrats who left the Democratic Party and then set about running our country into the ground. He is not welcome.

They can stay out in the Wilderness until the heat death of the universe as far as I'm concerned.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

45. It *IS* your party Will. You built that.

[Beartracks]

61. LOL. They should totally resurrect that slogan. N/t

[herding cats]

46. Another Republican learning actions have consequences.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. James E. Faust

[malaise]

49. Oh My!

He helped bring them here

[Ilsa]

50. Geez, George, what did you think would happen

after your buddies convinced anyone that would listen that their ridiculous soundbites were great philosophical words to run a country by, and "elites" were ruining everything?
Fuck you, George.

[rufus dog]

52. Years ago I read a linked article, I believe here on DU, regarding the esteemed Mr. Will

See link to a post from Grantcart

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x345504

Point is George is part of the problem, you don't support the crap for years then just get to walk away to save face.

[BobTheSubgenius]

53. This announcement is as big as I think it is, right?

Not in the greater scheme of things, but at least symbolically big news. Dyed-in-the-wool, eats, sleeps and breathes Republican, George Will, who, metaphorically, bleeds red?

I realize that physically, he oozes a sort of blackish-green ichor, but.......still! Holy Shit!

[beastie boy]

54. I knew kids like this in kindergarten.

They make a mess, blame someone else for the mess, throw a tantrum and leave.

[ashling]

59. George Will is best known for

Masquerading as an intellectual.

Now it seems he is masquerading as "unaffiliated."

[McCamy Taylor]

60. Will is a GOP mouthpiece. This signals there will be a coup attempt at the convention.

[Zambero]

69. Too little and too late however

The convention spectacle and schism generated by a battle between Trump supporters and plotting enemies would only pound more nails in the GOP's coffin.

[left-of-center2012]

63. Only thing he ever did that I like n/t

[DonCoquixote]

68. whatever life preserver you throw him

Make sure it is made of lead.

Many of us are TIRED of seeing the rejected wreckage of the GOP swim to our boat, get pulled on, then get promotoed to Captain, followed the the casting overboard of whatever leftist the center hated.