I’m guessing, it’s the floundering naïf. Like other “thoughtful conservatives”—“Jane Austen Republicans,” I like to call them—folks like David Brooks, Ross Douthat, Anne Applebaum, Peggy Noonan, et al.—Will is more than a little appalled at what the Republican Party has become. Any party that prefers Rush Limbaugh to George Will is not really a party that George Will wishes to be associated with.
But of course the thoughtful conservatives can’t really admit that their party has become a pack of howling loonies. They just have to wait for it to pass. And nothing brings a party to its senses faster than losing to a floundering waif. And if pissing on Mitt can help bring the party to its senses, George is more than ready to do so. Besides, pissing on people is the thing that George does best.
Afterwards
In his column, George says that “conservatives correctly believe that it is important to defeat Barack Obama but unimportant that Romney be president.” So who’s his candidate? Perry? Cain? Santorum? Bachmann? Gingrich? These question marks only beget more of their kind. Will has no candidate. Romney is easily the class of the Republican pack and Will despises him.
*Will steadfastly ignores the fact that half of Obama’s floundering, on domestic matters at least, is due to Republican determination to destroy Obama even if they have to take down the U.S. economy as well. George’s little morality tales leave ample room for embroidery but none for substance.
