Excellent article. As a northeastern Conservative who went to school with some of these elitist Conservatives, I know them all too well. Can we say...Mr. Kristol, Mr. Brooks? They are out of touch and far more concerned with social acceptance than reporting on the real mood of the nation.
Even Charles Krauthammer’s first remarks on the night of her appearance at the convention were negative.
Bill Kristol was an early and enthusiastic supporter of Sarah Palin.
“Excellent article. As a northeastern Conservative who went to school with some of these elitist Conservatives, I know them all too well. Can we say...Mr. Kristol, Mr. Brooks? They are out of touch and far more concerned with social acceptance than reporting on the real mood of the nation.”
Spooky - I was going to post something similar. I don’t know Kristol and Brooks, but I am surrounded by and generally disgusted with elitists of all political stripes. The “conservative” elitists go out of their way to proclaim that they are only “fiscally” conservative (and socially liberal).
“Elite” and “elitist” are of course different things. There are many more non-elite elitists (those who worship elite credentials, even if they don’t have them) than there are non-elitist elites (who have elite credentials but don’t think that such credentials make them better, smarter, or wiser than those who had different opportunities or went a different root).
GO PALIN
-mondonico (Yale 1985, currently on the Acela Express southbound to DC)