Posted on 10/10/2008 5:06:13 PM PDT by MartinaMisc
General David Brooks has declared war. And like General David Petraeus, he could well win it.
On October 10, the New York Times columnist and former Weekly Standard contributor proclaimed that Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a danger to the future of the Republican Party. In a column entitled “The Class War Before Palin”, Brooks asserted that Palin represented nothing more than the GOP’s embrace of anti-intellectualism: “…[O]ver the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people who live in cities, in highly educated regions and on the coasts. This expulsion has had many causes. But the big one is this: Republican political tacticians decided to mobilize their coalition with a form of social class warfare. Democrats kept nominating coastal pointy-heads like Michael Dukakis so Republicans attacked coastal pointy-heads.”
Brooks continued: “Over the past 15 years, the same argument has been heard from a thousand politicians and a hundred television and talk-radio jocks. The nation is divided between the wholesome Joe Sixpacks in the heartland and the oversophisticated, overeducated, oversecularized denizens of the coasts. What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole. The liberals had coastal condescension, so the conservatives developed their own anti-elitism, with mirror-image categories and mirror-image resentments, but with the same corrosive effect.”
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Can the Manhattan Elite metrosexual RINOs like Brooks and Noonan please GO AWAY?
Thanks.
“...in highly educated regions...”
With all due respect, a degree in lib arts from any of our pantywaist college is NOT highly educated. Recent reports cite the fact that these loons cannot even score above failing on a simple history test.
It’s good of that NY Times lapdog to bring this up three weeks before the election, too.
Freaking sell-out twit.
This thing really needs a barf alert.
They'd probably run screaming from a high school level pre-calculus or physics test.
May one ask what “elite” school the Pentagon sent General Brooks to for his advanced degrees (required now of all top generals)? One can be sure it was not a “conservative” school.
So an elitist-educated general thinks we should not call em as we see em; because that would include him.
Me thinks the general doth protest for his own self-interest and not the interests of the country.
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