It's happened again, George Will has written an excellent essay that I actually agree with. This fits with my hypothesis that Will is a good metric of how conservative people actually are, or whether they are total hacks.

So, a reminder, the George Will ratio refers to the number of times Will writes an essay I agree with (excluding his boring-ass baseball talk and lovey-dovey bios of politicians) vs. the number of times I disagree. It hovers around 1/7-8. Ratios of 1/10 or below indicate a higher rate of hackdom, usually an indication you are just an apologist for whatever Bush says is ok, rather than having a unifying ideology of conservatism, which will occasionally overlap with sanity. For instance, Max Boot, Novak and Krauthammer have ratios that are measured on quantum scale.

Anyway, he's writing today to criticize the stupidity of describing bigots as "values voters." And takes on Hilary's latest stupidity in her efforts to court people who will never vote for her ever, and just piss people like me off.

Last Saturday, when John McCain delivered the commencement address at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, he was said to be reaching out to values voters. Hillary Clinton, speaking recently at the annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention, scolded "kids," by which she evidently meant young adults, for thinking "work is a four-letter word." She was said to be courting values voters. If so, those voters must value slapdash rhetorical nonsense as well as work.

It is odd that some conservatives are eager to promote the semantic vanity of the phrase "values voters." And it is odder still that the media are cooperating with those conservatives.

Conservatives should be wary of the idea that when they talk about, say, tax cuts and limited government -- about things other than abortion, gay marriage, religion in the public square and similar issues -- they are engaging in values-free discourse. And by ratifying the social conservatives' monopoly of the label "values voters," the media are furthering the fiction that these voters are somehow more morally awake than others.

Today's liberal agenda includes preservation, even expansion, of the welfare state in its current configuration in order to strengthen an egalitarian ethic of common provision. Liberals favor taxes and other measures to produce a more equal distribution of income. They may value equality indiscriminately, but they vote their values.

Hillary can suck it. She sounds like that old man yelling at you to get off his lawn. I work harder than those worthless boomers did at my age. And I will never vote for her as long as she remains an opponent of Grand Theft Auto. We might as well vote for Lieberman.