Posted on 11/12/2008 2:40:03 PM PST by Syncro
For the first time in 32 years, Democrats got more than 50 percent of the country to vote for their candidate in a national election, and now they want to lecture the Republican Party on how to win elections. Liberal Republicans have joined them, both groups hoping no one will notice that we just lost this election by running the candidate they chose for us.
For years, New York Times columnist David Brooks has been writing mash notes to John McCain. In November 2007, he quoted an allegedly "smart-alecky" political consultant who exclaimed, in private, "You know, there's really only one great man running for president this year, and that's McCain."
"My friend's remark," Brooks somberly intoned, "had the added weight of truth."
Brooks gushed, "I can tell you there is nobody in politics remotely like him," and even threw down the gauntlet, saying: "You will never persuade me that he is not among the finest of men."
That took guts at the Times, where McCain is constantly praised by the op-ed columnists and was endorsed by the paper in the Republican primary. Even Frank Rich has hailed McCain as the "most experienced and principled" of the Republicans and said no one in either party "has more experience in matters of war than the Arizona senator" -- the biggest rave issued by Rich since "Rent" opened on Broadway.
They adored McCain at the Times! Does anyone here not see a cluster of bright red flags?
In January this year, Brooks boasted of McCain's ability to attract "independents."
And then Election Day arrived, and all the liberals who had spent years praising McCain all voted for Obama. Independents voted for Palin or voted against Obama. No one outside of McCain's immediate family was specifically voting for McCain.
But now Brooks presumes to lecture Republicans about what to do next time. How about: "Don't take David Brooks' advice"?
According to Brooks, the reason McCain lost was -- naturally -- that he ran as a conservative.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
can I take back my vote for McCain? lol
I voted for Sarah...
Here's a little more...I kinda posted in a hurry
According to Brooks, the reason McCain lost was -- naturally -- that he ran as a conservative. If only presidential candidates would spurn polls, modern political history, evidence from campaign rallies, facts on the ground and listen to the wishful thinking of Times columnists!
If McCain lost because he ran as a conservative, then how come I knew McCain was going to lose before Brooks did? About the same time Brooks was touting McCain's uncanny ability to attract independents, I was writing, accurately: "John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth."
Using the latest euphemism for "liberal," Brooks complains that "reformist" Republicans like John McCain are forced to run for president as smelly old conservatives: "National candidates who begin with reformist records -- Giuliani, Romney or McCain -- immediately tack right to be acceptable to the power base." (Some "tack" so far to the right they almost adopt the positions in the GOP platform!)
In another sign of how popular liberalism is, liberals have to keep changing their name, like grifters moving from town to town. Liberal Republicans used to be known as "moderates," then "mavericks" or "centrists." I guess now they're "reformists." Why, liberals are so popular they have to disguise themselves for fear of being mobbed by an adoring public!
Giuliani, Romney or McCain -- immediately tack right to be acceptable to the power base." (Some "tack" so far to the right they almost adopt the positions in the GOP platform!)
mccain lost because of the bailout
WTF is up with your profile? Are you some kind of hacker?
Gotta love this woman.
The financial crisis in general. The perception of it...that’s the primer. I’m sure the majority of voter knew very little about the votes.
You are barking up the wrong tree
Can I nominate Anne for Chair of RNC?
Your link goes back to last weeks article???
A straw pool I think.
Only a theory and it doesn't hold water
Refresh, it will move you out of the time warp.
Hit your refresh button. The link is the same week to week. Your cookies probably took you to last weeks article automatically.
LOVED that! :)
That was what grabbed me, too. It’s a great line.
LOL! Syncro is simply gathering the same info as Google and others.......spooky...huh...;)
they sure did when mccain dramatically suspended his campaign and had nothing to show for it during the first debate
Did he get a "thrill" up his leg?
Who would ever take seriously a dork who writes for The New York Times? They get a lot of readers who follow the elliptical metrocon mazes of intellectual neo-conservatism at The New York Times, do they? As edited and approved by the Council on Foreign Relations... Conservatism Lite.
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