In an earlier post, i pointed to a findlaw column expressing some dismay at George Will's flip-flopping on legal analysis (all with an air of supposed-principle). Well, there's more Will-dismay to come. Did any readers catch his recent comparison of Tom Daschle to Trent Lott...it ended with this:
""As for Daschle, he has become the Democrats' Trent Lott, with two differences. Lott was embarrassing about 1948, not 2003. And his fellow Republicans were embarrassed."
Huh?
The comparison is between Lott's infamaous remarks to Thurmond and Daschle's criticism that the Bush administration blundered in the diplomatic field.
George Will, if your comparisons are this fallible, should you think about giving up the comentator's word processor?
Here is a link to a (new for me) blog that digests this topic. The main thrust is this:
"Sorry, George. Your attempt to compare Lott's comments that we would have been better off with Strom Thurmond's election in 1948 (and resulting legalized segregation) with Daschle's comments that the President has done a lousy job of bringing allies along to his foreign policy is a classic apples and oranges situation. Indeed, it goes beyond that-- it's apples and orangutans. Lott endorsed a policy that has been discredited for 35 years. (Further, Will's characterization of it as "about 1948" is disingenuous spin: Lott's statements offended people living now, including many blacks who suffered under the policies Thurmond advocated.) Daschle may or may not be right about W (I happen to think he is right), but his comments certainly do not endorse any sort of extremist ideology; indeed, people like Josh Marshall, Kenneth Pollack, and Tom Friedman and many others have been making the same argument."

I tell ya what, Will's sliding quickly down the roof into pure-stupid-partisanship.