George Will om George Allen

Jeg har et par gange (vistnok som den eneste øst for Hans Ø) peget på Senator George Allen (R-VA) som et godt bud på, hvem der kunne blive Republikanernes kandidat i 2008 (bl.a. i en kommentar og i en opfølgning). Dét (altså Allen, ikke mig) havde den konservative kommentator George Will en klumme om for nogle uger siden. Jeg fandt dette metafor særligt interessant:

"The ideal Republican candidate can meld two Republican tendencies that are in tension — social conservatism and libertarianism. Social conservatives have no complaints with Allen, and libertarians vibrate like tuning forks to his invocations of “Mister Jefferson,'' as Virginians refer to their saint of minimal government."

PS. I Washington Post søndag havde Michael Shear den forudsigelse, at 2008-valget meget let kunne blive mellem George Allen og hans efterfølger som Virginia-guvernør, Mark Warner. Hmmmmm. Jeg tror fortsat, at det bliver Hillary C., der får nomineringen–og derefter taber selve præsidentvalget, fordi hun som den 8. Demokratiske præsidentkandidat i træk får under 50 pct. af stemmerne.

PPS. Tirsdag i Wall Street Journal mente Brendan Miniter derimod i sin klumme, "Bush 44", at Jeb Bush–familiens konservative får–i realiteten ser stærkere og stærkere ud som storebroders efterfølger i 2008.

2 thoughts on “George Will om George Allen

  1. TRES CEE

    this man, Lord Keynes, is surely much wiser then many Politicians who have either sold themselves to the Corporate Powers in the North East US, by Ignorance of Economics or by Desire to sell their Constituents to the North Eastern Corporate Powers, amen. “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.? — Lord Keynes (1883-1946)

    Svar

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