I missed the JLA commentary, he's one of three ignoramouses on the list.
Conservative or not, George Will is a fawning kiss-ass only slightly less miserable than the spook proselytizer Wm Buckley, but fewer facial tics.
Who cares if they are "conservative" or "libertarian" if they have something intelligent to say. It's the fawning servility that shows they know where their bread is buttered in the hermitically sealed Beltway.
Here's a definition of George Will and the rest of the sycophants using their wordsmith habits in ways they'll understand:
servility; sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunkey, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger-on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer [more]; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave (servant) [more]; courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface [U. S], heeler [U. S.], homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.
[Verbs] cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself; worship [more].
sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment.
pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of.
go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds.
[Adjectives] servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching |