"...I think the anger should be at the lying, thieving crooks in our state capitals and in DC..." k4

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I don't think of William F. Buckley Jr. as a "lying, thieving crook".
Nor do I think of George Will that way. I don't even think it's an accurate description of me.
Just lookit some of the intellectual gems political conservatives have provided us over the decades:

Harvard President Larry Summers (served as Tres. Sec. @ Clinton 2nd Term) raised deliberately provocative but un-PC questions about biological (intellectual) differences between men & women. A minor fluff-up resulted. Summers has apologized 3 times so far. ABC-TV's George Will responds:
"Summers simply forgot where he was. He thought he was at a place where there was free intellectual inquiry. He wasn't. He was at Harvard. He was on an American campus, where certain ideas simply can't be thought. The idea that there might be innate, which is to say genetically based cognitive differences between the sexes is not a radical thought. There's a huge body of science investigating it. By mentioning it, he induced in that poor woman [MIT Professor Nancy Hopkins] something like a clinical description of Freudian hysteria. She was going to fall down on the carpet and swoon with vapors and muss up her crinolines. This is what feminism has produced? This frail flower who can't stand to be in the presence of an idea like that."
"This major grovel's ridiculous. All he's done is dramatize that Harvard like most American campuses believes in diversity in everything but thought."

Pretty good!
"... the magnificently misnamed "neo-conservatives", are the most radical people in this town [Washington DC]" George Will / ABC-TV This Week July 16, 2006

"Social conservatives should grow up! ... There's a vanity in this group right now. They call themselves 'The Values Voters'. I have news for them. 100% of the American electorate are values voters. They vote their values. This ... semantic imperialism that they have where they say we vote values; everyone else votes, what?" George Will

"If you will the end, you must will the means to that end." George Will

"Most poor people are making more than the minimum wage, and most people making the minimum wage are not poor people, they're students and other part time workers." George Will

"We know that protectionism makes the world poorer." George Will

On CAFTA, George Will said [05/06/12]:
"... American workers have always worried about immigration, having a depress[ive] effect on wages. Surely if you want to control immigration, one way to do it is to promote prosperity in the countries from which the immigrants are coming; such as Central America." George Will 

Ladies & gentlemen:
There's more to political conservatism than Lush Rimbaugh, Sean Hannity, & Glen Beck. (graphic pending)

  


"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2