[publius1]

Our guys lose it when they get to the Times. Brooks predicts a 9-point Obama victory -- that's Reagan-level, isn't it? Also -- can you stand it -- he says, "Obama has the great intellect..." After a discussion about Niebuhr, "I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say."

Brooks has the gall to quote Buckley's line about the 2,000 people in the phone book being preferable as a governing body to the faculty of Harvard et al -- then disagree with it -- then claim Buckley disagreed with it -- then go on to prove the truth of the aphorism on himself. What an ass!

Maybe this is all a misquote -- but, I think probably not.... Brooks & Peggy Noonan must be having high tea together, with some chemical chasers.

[Yo-Yo]

Interesting choice of keywords.

[Tublecane]

As Plato knew, politicians aren’t thinkers. We were lucky, in that Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Lincoln were probably geniuses. That’s more than most nations could ever hope for. But Washington? TR? FDR? Kennedy? Reagan? Their policies fell back on, at most, one or two firmly held beliefs. They were men of action.

All I care about Palin is that she’s got charisma and she’s a true blue conservative. Without honestly conservative leaders, the Republican party has no chance but to be the runner-up party.

[jimfree]

Let me offer a Sarah response: "Bless your heart David; you do write for the Times dontcha?"

[Diogenesis]

UNBELIEVABLE.
Another damned RomneyBOT or pseudoRepublican sabotaging Gov. Palin.

"The most impressive thing about Mitt Romney is his clarity of mind.
When he set out to pursue his party’s nomination, he studied the
contours of the Republican coalition and molded himself to its forms."

[San Jacinto]

Our guys lose it when they get to the Times.

Impossible. Our guys don't get to the Slimes. No conservative would regard these two candidates as "very good." Obama is the cancer. Biden is the cancer which continues to grow in a dead person for a little while after they are buried. McCain is like when the body's immune system crosses over to see if it can help the diseases out in any way.

Palin is just one of us Americans who NY'ers and S.F'ers like to make fun of. Just the people who built the damn place in the first place, bless our hearts, as Sarah says.

[Gaffer]

As for Mr. Brooks, all I can say is 'Mr. Brooks, if you are the face of Republicanism, I don't want it - no way in cowboy hell'.

How can this lady be a cancer? Do you realize what you're saying? This woman, wife, mother and fighter is the epitome of conservatism and individualism and BELIEF! You might as well be calling my mother, wife and daughter (grand daughters) a cancer. You are a pitiful fool and you are sorely mistaken that you have an influence in ANYTHING conservative, or Republican, for that matter. ASSHOLE!

[CaliforniaCon]

David Brooks -— eewwwwwwwwwwww!!!

When I saw that name I nearly retched! I absolutely detest that guy - looking at him, listening to him — and then there’s his usual message! Such a disgusting jacka**!!!

Just had to vent there — feel better now.

[Cricket24]

I think Brooks needs to have brain checked for cancer! What a complete idiot!

[mapmaker77]

Brooks speaks with the unintentienal insularity of the MSM elite, and doesn't seem to understand that some old fashioned common sense will win every time.

[HawaiianGecko]

If Obama is so smart, how did he come to the conclusion that going into Iraq was a bad thing?  Did he have daily briefings from the CIA?  Did he have daily briefings from the NSA?  Did he have the intelligence agencies and leaders of all countries in the Security Council of the United Nations agreeing with Bush that Iraq was a potential danger? 

I doubt it. In 2002 he was a bumbling local politician in Illinois.  He probably didn't even have accurate readings on the local Chinese restaurant's take out menu.

You simply cannot take the known information in October 2002 and come to any conclusion other than the one that President Bush, VP Cheney, President Clinton, Senator Clinton, Senator Rockefeller, and a list of 75 other senators and 300+ congressmen came to.  You cannot find a Karnaugh map or a series of logic gates anywhere on the planet that would have come up with a different scenario.

So how did Obama miss it by so much?  His critical thinking ability is simply flawed and right now American are dumb enough to put him in office.

[Uncle Miltie]

David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and vice presidential candidates Monday afternoon, calling Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer to the Republican party" but describing John McCain and Barack Obama as "the two best candidates we've had in a long time."

No wonder he's the captive pet "conservative" of the MSM.

[Radix]

[Terrence DoGood]

In his dreams. Sarah Palin may just be the one (with all of us) dragging McCain over the victory line

[dynachrome]

Gay wannabees like Brooks hate strong women.

[Fred]

Brooks is making the mistake that anybody actually gives a rat’s arse what he thinks.

[Friendofgeorge]

Brooks, Scarborough,Carlson(tucker), George Will,Noonan etc, are all Pieces of crap...Sorry somebody had to say it.

[television is just wrong]

LOL, that just cracks me up. She has a spine and they don’t like it.

[Poincare]

David Brooks is a little hairy wart, easily excised.

[webrover]

"Out of the blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?"

Is that a common pick up line in fag bars?

[clintonh8r]

"The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg at New York's Le Cirque restaurant...."

Gosh, one hardly knows where to begin...