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David Brooks: "I Wish We Had Gray Men In Suits" To Take Out Trump, Cruz
realclearpolitics.com ^ | 1/16/16

Posted on 01/16/2016 11:56:54 AM PST by cotton1706

Conservative New York Times columnist calls for the "donor class" to create an organization like MoveOn.org to take out Republican frontrunners Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz. Brooks said he wished "we had gray men in suits" to take away Trump and Cruz in his Friday appearance on PBS' NewsHour.

JUDY WOODRUFF, PBS NEWSHOUR HOST: Well, does that mean something, though, for Jeb Bush? Does it - does that translate into something for him?

DAVID BROOKS, NYT COLUMNIST: Well, Jeb Bush is part of a large group of people who are like the team at halftime who - like the Republican establishment, who feel like they're down 50 points and they have decided they're going to lose the game.

And that's how the Republican establishment is right now. They don’t believe that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump can win. They think it could imperil their majorities in Congress, and yet they're doing nothing about it.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But what could they do?

DAVID BROOKS: Well, I wish we had gray men in suits. We don't have that.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brooks; cruz; elections; trump
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And Brooks knows suits well, since he LOVES a good crease! Especially on a Marxist democrat!
1 posted on 01/16/2016 11:56:54 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Clap that guy in irons and hold him in the hold. He’s nuts.


2 posted on 01/16/2016 11:58:15 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: cotton1706

Brooks is no conservative. He is a rude and hateful person who pretends to be republican but if he is that at all, he is liberal republican. My guess is he votes Democrat.


3 posted on 01/16/2016 11:58:38 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: cotton1706
gray men in suits

What does that even mean?

Is this guy on drugs?

4 posted on 01/16/2016 11:59:05 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: cotton1706

He’s got an obsession with men’s clothing. Why doesn’t he just get a job at Moe Ginzberg’s?


5 posted on 01/16/2016 11:59:39 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: cotton1706
Conservative New York Times columnist

Why the adjective? Has this clown ever said or done one conservative thing in the last two decades? Has he ever?

6 posted on 01/16/2016 12:00:27 PM PST by stevem
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To: BenLurkin

It means that he wants Sound Men to run this country, not the Great Unwashed. He wants men like himself.


7 posted on 01/16/2016 12:00:40 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

You’re right, there is nothing conservative about “Conservative” Brooks, just the same as there is nothing conservative about Jennifer Rubin, the house “conservative” at the Washington Post, or Kathleen Parker, whom no one had ever heard of until she became house “conservative” on the left-wing cable channels.


8 posted on 01/16/2016 12:01:16 PM PST by laconic (M)
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To: Paladin2
voila ......a Gray "man" in a suit!!




9 posted on 01/16/2016 12:01:33 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: cotton1706

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest? — Henry II

Brooks is no Conservative. He’s a fascist like the rest of the Establishment.


10 posted on 01/16/2016 12:01:53 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
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To: cotton1706

YABUT ... this gray MAN thing is just plain WEIRD !!!


11 posted on 01/16/2016 12:01:57 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: cotton1706

Just more proof that liberals are violent.

Liberals are the most hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, censoring, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, communist, vulgar, dirty, smelly, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, and scared little lying thumbsucking idiots God has ever created.


12 posted on 01/16/2016 12:02:37 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: cotton1706

I suppose he meant men in gray suits, but the dementia is kicking in.


13 posted on 01/16/2016 12:03:24 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Welfare: It's a Safety Net, Not a Hammock.)
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To: cotton1706

That’s a BS headline for sensationalism. That is not the quote.


14 posted on 01/16/2016 12:04:30 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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To: knarf
Apparently he..met...somebody when last he was up in the Mothership with Louis Farraklown




15 posted on 01/16/2016 12:05:21 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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gray men in suits

What does that even mean?

Is this guy on drugs?

Perhaps he is referring to Aliens in sartorial splendor? I mean those are the only Greys/Grays I am aware of.

16 posted on 01/16/2016 12:07:21 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: cotton1706

I guess David Brooks is planning a career change? What a stupid thing to say. But then this is the guy who commented on the crease in Obama’s pants. Shows you the depth of analysis we get with this guy.


17 posted on 01/16/2016 12:08:14 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: cotton1706

I want to see th edata that shows that Hillary or Sanders would beat ANY Republican. It’s all BS! (Bernie Sanders)


18 posted on 01/16/2016 12:08:33 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

it took nine replies


19 posted on 01/16/2016 12:09:15 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: cotton1706
Sounds like a threat to me.

I know Trump has great security, I hope Cruz does also.

5.56mm

20 posted on 01/16/2016 12:11:15 PM PST by M Kehoe
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