Aww, I do like a warm and fuzzy family reunion.
It’s great to see the blind become able to see. And it’s even nicer when it’s the crazy distant relative some of us wish we’d just kept locked in the basement all of this time.
The relative is reactionary US political pundit George Will, who’s being welcomed in from the howling outer darkness of the back yard into the slightly uncertain semi-tolerance of the scullery. Crazy George was initially banished for doing this kind of thing:
He gently acknowledged great disappointment in Ronald Reagan after learning that Reagan used debate notes stolen from Jimmy Carter as he prepped, with George Will’s help, for debating Carter. That actually soured his private agreement with Republicans quite a bit, even if it’s not common knowledge to the audience he reaches.
That sourness didn’t stop him colluding with the theft though did it? But no matter what the hypocrisy, there’s always redemption:
He has however, now come to his senses, and come to share the view of me, his equally-distant relative. That view being, of course, that Sarah Palin should, under no circumstances, be a nominee for Vice President of the United States.
Huzzah and harrumble, for such a touching reunion!
