David Brooks: Sarah Palin “represents a fatal cancer” to GOP

Southern Appeal ^ | 10/8/08 | staff

[Force of Truth]

I hope it's TERMINAL.

[hinckley buzzard]

Brooks sold out a few years ago and meekly sucked up a job at the NY Slimes. He is now one of the liberals' dancing bears, whom they trot out from time to time on a short leash with a choke-chain collar.

The homosexuals at the editorial board find it amusing to watch a feckless excuse for a conservative try to dance and prance around in a comical yet pathetic attempt at mimicking his liberal masters.

[Let's Roll]

Sarah, God Bless her, is the future - the citizen public servant the Founders envisioned.

[Brilliant]

“Does David Brooks even pretend to be a conservative anymore?”

Sure he does—among liberal audiences.

[Loud Mime]

No matter what happens during this election, Sarah will be president in four years and a few weeks.

[pray4liberty]

David Brooks: Sarah Palin “represents a fatal cancer” to GOP

It's the GOP who has cancer. She's radiation to GOP and Democrat corruption.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I’m afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices.

Really? Certainly Bush doesn't scorn ideas - his decision to invade Iraq, overthrow a menace to world peace and establish a new Mideastern democracy in the face of savage resistance by the Left represents a triumph of ideas over mindless reflexive pacifism. And certainly one doesn't rise to become the popular governor of a state by scorning ideas.

The real issue here is that Bush and Palin don't favor the ideas popular in the East Coast establishment circles Brooks hangs out in, and they don't kowtow to the liberals who formulate these ideas. Brooks has adopted the usual lame posturing and intellectual pretensions of the Left.

[DGHoodini]

Hah! if *anyone should drop off the GOP ticket, it should be McCain. Romney should take his place. McCain is acting like a lion that is too old to fight for his pride. If he can’t/won’t fight for his pride, he should let a younger lion lead the way.

[DGHoodini]

If the NYTs printed it, it’s likely a lie...or an act of treason.

[HelloooClareece]

“Go out and vote for Sarah. Drag McCain along with her, but elect Sarah as a big “SCREW YOU” to the Dems and the elitist conservatives who basically want you to live in a kind of cultural slavery, ruled by your “betters.””

BRAVO! THAT is exactly what I wish McCain would end his last debate with.

[buccaneer81]

“Who the hell is David Brooks?” He replaced intellectual giant Anna Quindlen on the NYT editorial page.

Wow. That must have taken the wave of a feather.

[webrover]

The creep with the rotten teeth really believes that the effete degenerates turned out by the whited sepulchers of the “ivy league” are the intellectual elite. These soulless cyphers who scorn any quality that puts above a beast are the true cancers.

[webrover]

I believe that calling someone a “fatal cancer” is damn near an incitement to violence against that person.

[Califreak]

I never really saw her so much as cancer-more like chemo or life saving surgery.

[Hildy]

I believe Neihbur is the author of the serenity prayer, which I have to say to myself at least 10 times daily:

God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can and
Wisdom to know the difference.

I have it written on my bathroom wall.

[pissant]

God grant me the self control to not backhand the little fairy David Brooks if I meet him.

[ravinson]

Buckley famously said he’d rather be ruled by the first 1,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But he didn’t think those were the only two options. He thought it was important to have people on the conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning.

Brooks is clueless. Sarah Palin's father was a school teacher and her mother was a school administrator.

You don't have to have connections with an elite school to celebrate learning, but it is worth noting that Sarah Palin has a deeper connection to Harvard than Obama, given that her 12-great-uncle was the first President of Harvard College (wayback in the 1600's when it was a decent school).

What really bothers Brooks is that Sarah is not a mealy-mouthed moderate like himself (and McCain).

[justkate]

Some of the most intellectually gifted individuals I have ever known are, for all intents & purposes, useless. Useless to themselves and useless to society.

Mr. Brooks fits nicely into that category.

[popdonnelly]

I don’t understand how anyone can take Brooks seriously. I think The Atlantic was just looking for a fake Republican to interview.

[popdonnelly]

A Governor who actually gets things done and helps the people of her State. That’s a fatal cancer, all right. That’s death to everything the Washington establishment holds dear.