Brooks, you're a dumbass!
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.
Brooks has gone completely native.
He’s Conrad’s Mistah Kurtz, lying feverish in his Upper West Side hut, muttering, “Palin...the horror! The horror!”
David Brooks can kiss my a$$.
David Brooks = David Brock.
Same hot tub.
All these conservatives in the MSM, have got to get a grip. There is nothing about Sarah Palin that gives me the impression she is anti-learning or anti-ideas. Quite the opposite.
He gets too many things wrong to be actually taken seriously. For example, he says "The more I follow politicians, the more I think experience matters, the ability to have a template of things in your mind that you can refer to on the spot, because believe me, once in office there's no time to think or make decisions."
But he says Obama is a great candidate, when Obama has no experience, has no template in his mind, and fails whenever a quick decision has to be made. On the other hand, Palin has 45 years of real-world experience, only partly tainted by public office. She knows what it's like to be an average american, because unlike Barack Obama, she grew up as an average american, not being groomed by america-haters and terrorists.
THen he says: The New York Times columnist also said that the "great virtue" of Palin's counterpart, Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, is that he is anything but a "yes man."
But in fact Biden is the perfect example of how experience is meaningless if it is obtained by an idiot. Biden says what he thinks, but since most of what he says is made up, and the rest is unintelligible, he would be of NO USE WHATEVER to Obama. Obama will be clueless, and turn to Biden, who will make up an answer based on a world of alternative reality that Biden lives in.
Meanwhile, Brooks says Bush doesn't have "that kind of person" around him, when Cheney is NOBODY'S YES MAN.
In the end, I can only conclude that Brooks is scared of strong women, and can't handle the idea of any "girl" knowing more than him.
I literally burst out laughing when I read that McCain and Obama were the two best candidates we’ve had in a long time, goodness gracious, how stupid, and Palin a Cancer, that guy is nutz and has exposed himself as a real liberal (if he claims to be a conservative, not sure on that)
Intellectualism is not eating brie and having a corncob up one’s rectum, as many Ivy League types like to believe.
This country (and FR) is full of what those Ivy Leaguers call “every day Americans” (with derision) that not only have higher cognitive powers than them, but have an invaluable sense of right and wrong.
Stopped reading there.........
What a blind deaf moron...........
I’ve never heard of him, but in reading this article, it’s apparent he’s following the fake messiah.
I think in someways he is right. The republican party is made up of the eastern elite, country club set and the conservative wing. Sarah represents the conservative wing and the elites can’t have that cancer in their party as it would kill them off.
Nancy Kerrigan was beaten with a pipe for less.
Where is the vigilante justice?
Brooks, you're a dumbass!