[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.

[novemberslady]

come out...come out...where ever you are...

[skully]

Brooks is cancer to Conservatism. These “coasty” fembots like Brooks are nothing but CINO’s. Brooks needs to come clean with himself, and stop denying he's a Liberal. His ilk's time of defining what is Conservative is over. There's a new sheriff in town David, and she can shoot much straighter then you. Time to go find yourself a job with Dan Rather.

[JudgemAll]

A cancer? The only cancer I see is the cult of “feelings of tingle in leg” without any further clarity.

[bereanway]

Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's late in the night, he's on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the blue I say, ‘Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?’ And he says, ‘Yeah.’ So i say, ‘What did Niebuhr mean to you?’ For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.”

*****

Actually Niebuhr wasn't very subtle when it comes to the rejection of absolute Biblical Truth. But that's the sort of thing that excites people like Brooks and Obama who are so much more clever and nuanced than Palin and the rest of us rubes. Sarah Palin represents goodness, someone who has a real heart for God, loves Him and loves His Word and there's nothing that infuriates these elitists any more than that. When held up against the light of the Bible their vacuous arguments are quickly exposed and their futility becomes apparent. These people will do everything they can to destroy her.

[happygrl]

Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's late in the night, he's on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say, 'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.

His subtle thought processes didn't stop him from sitting in Rev. Wright's pew for 20 years.

[AFreeBird]

Who's this David Brooks character, and why should I care what he thinks?

And Sarah is the Future of the party. RINO's are the cancer.

[hosepipe]

[ David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party" ]

Actually David Brooks and George Will, "Represents A Skin Cancer To The Republican Party".. David Brooks is a tool used by Mark Shields to paint his lies over a willing Lehrer as if it was journalism.. Gwen Ifill is a hand puppet.. affirmative action on crack..

[Minn]

Mr. Brooks, if Obama is so smart and learned, why is it that he never seems to have noticed that places where his leftist and utopian ideas have prevailed were/are hellholes? Mr. Obama seems to be too dense to have ever noticed that leftist bromides are extremely simplistic at their core.

"From each according to his..." seems rational to a fifth grader, but anybody with an elementary understanding of the human mind and the human spirit knows that it is crap. Only simpletons and knaves fall for it.

[lmc12]

I’m ready for an Andy Jackson type mass Tar and Feathering of these over educated, self important windbags who never did a da*n thing in their life but preen. Rienhold Niebhur, who gives a rat’s ass about Reinhold Niebuhr when Barry’s friend ON THE MORNING OF 9/11 BRAGGED ABOUT NOT DOING ENOUGH DAMAGE TO DC AND NY, WHAT IS IT ABOUT TERRORISM THAT THESE GUYS DON”T UNDERSTAND!THESE ELITES HAVE WORN OUT THEIR WELCOME!

[Minn]

A smart person would realize that a fool like Ayers, who considers the most prosperous and free nation in history a blight, should be avoided.

[capydick]

'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say, 'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.

From Wikipedia: During the 1930s, Niebuhr was a prominent leader of the militant faction of the Socialist Party of America. He promoted adoption of the United front agenda of the Communist Party USA, a position in sharp contrast to ideas later in his career. According to the autobiography of his factional opponent Louis Waldman, Niebuhr even led military drill exercises among the young members.

Amazing how these turds can impress themselves with knowledge of some obscure Commie from the 30's. With the conversation fresh in his mind, he probably took care of that timgle up his knee by himself after the interview.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Brooks has gone Native, so who cares what he thinks.

Right now, it seems to me that if Obama DOES win in November, then Governor Palin automatically becomes the GOP front-runner for President in 2012. She would probably have to put down Romney during the primaries, but I think she can do it!

[o2bfree]

He’s following the Andrew Sullivan mold — a supposed conservative who finds solace destroying his own party at every opportunity.

[PISANO]

Here we go again. The same old story. Another Democrat President will be lauded as the SMARTEST man on the face of the earth...................and of course the dumbest woman on the face of the earth, not to mention a fatal cancer for the GOP, is a Republican.

Northeast elitist liberals [GOP or Dims] make me ILL!!!!

[montag813]

"[Biden] can't not say what he thinks," Brooks remarked. "There's no internal monitor, and for Barack Obama, that's tremendously important to have a vice president who will be that way.

Unlike Biden, at least Sarah Palin has read Article I of the U.S. Constitution.

[montag813]

'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.' And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind.

So in other words, David Brooks just admitted to America he is intellectually dishonest. How did such a "conservative" poseur ever get a job with Bill Buckley?

[andy58-in-nh]

Anyone who works for the treasonous New York Times, gleefully attends a soirée for the left-wing Atlantic Magazine at the très chic Le Cirque restaurant and celebrates the work of democratic socialist Reinhold Niebuhr is about as much of a "conservative" as Barack Obama. Brooks is an effete gay urbanite who passes as a man of the "right" in Manhattan because he wears Brooks Brothers suits and doesn't sport an earring.

[Titus-Maximus]

Hey Brooks, Good Fences Make Good Niebuhrs

Brooks likes eggheads, is an egghead and even tries to claim Ronald Reagan as an egghead - which he was not. Intelligent, with good conservative free market values, Reagan wasn’t staying up late reading Reinhold Niebuhr, but it was a nice try by Brooks.

Reagan would have loved Palin, I am sure of that.

Brooks is confused - Obama is a political opportunist who has never taken a risk and only sought higher office in a typically cut throat fashion. His surrogates opened up Jack Ryan’s divorce papers and he benefited while saying ‘how terrible’. No change there. He is not a real “leader”, perhaps a fascinating history teacher at an all white boarding school, but definitely not someone that men will follow into battle. It is obvious to me that there is a certain cowardice to him, a sneakiness about what he truly believes, and how he is disguising himself to the electorate. It is really distasteful, how this hollow man who selected a psycho church that matched his leftist values, is navigating the political shoals of black ultra nationalism and hate into the living rooms of white adoring fans and using Christianity as a cover. No one knows anything about him. He accomplishes this by not explaining his beliefs nor the people that brought him to this point, and having the media for the most part not actually investigate him. He joined the Chicago machine - and was in the process of selling himself to Tony Rezko the fixer, when justice incredibly peaked in. Had Obama turned in just one corrupt Democratic politician in Chicago, just one, I would think different, but he is no change. Frankly, he is a whore’s whore and I see nothing unique about this skell, glomming something that he had no right owning, and selling his soul politically without batting an eye. He lacks effect, like a stone cold killer. Obama sure can lecture about morality but you just won’t catch him practicing it.

This media is in the bag which is disgusting - but Brooks claims all this substance when there is absolutely none - and why, because he knows Niebuhr, give me a break.

[ought-six]

David Brooks is not a conservative, nor has he ever been.

[Travis McGee]

Are Brooks and Peggy Noonan dating? They've been drinking too much Manhattan Koolaid.

I wish both of these elite effete RINOs would just GO AWAY.