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David Brooks: "I Wish We Had Gray Men In Suits" To Take Out Trump, Cruz
realclearpolitics.com ^ | 1/16/16

Posted on 01/16/2016 11:56:54 AM PST by cotton1706

Conservative New York Times columnist calls for the "donor class" to create an organization like MoveOn.org to take out Republican frontrunners Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz. Brooks said he wished "we had gray men in suits" to take away Trump and Cruz in his Friday appearance on PBS' NewsHour.

JUDY WOODRUFF, PBS NEWSHOUR HOST: Well, does that mean something, though, for Jeb Bush? Does it - does that translate into something for him?

DAVID BROOKS, NYT COLUMNIST: Well, Jeb Bush is part of a large group of people who are like the team at halftime who - like the Republican establishment, who feel like they're down 50 points and they have decided they're going to lose the game.

And that's how the Republican establishment is right now. They don’t believe that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump can win. They think it could imperil their majorities in Congress, and yet they're doing nothing about it.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But what could they do?

DAVID BROOKS: Well, I wish we had gray men in suits. We don't have that.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brooks; cruz; elections; trump
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To: CodeToad

You can say that again!


41 posted on 01/16/2016 12:37:02 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: UCANSEE2
IN ALL FAIRNESS. to the #graylivesmatter community...this is a better representation...by far




42 posted on 01/16/2016 12:41:09 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: cotton1706

Quidam?


43 posted on 01/16/2016 12:44:04 PM PST by Cap Huff
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I agree wholeheartedly.


44 posted on 01/16/2016 12:46:25 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Yeah, I couldn’t find a picture like that, or that one , when I searched.

Excellent job.


45 posted on 01/16/2016 12:47:29 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I pasted the head of the grayer of the two guys to thesis of the other one.

took mere seconds!


46 posted on 01/16/2016 12:48:33 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: cotton1706

Maybe “men in grey suits”. Found this on urban dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Men+in+Grey+Suits

Sound like a euphemism for a shark as a predator. But I have a tough time seeing a shark analogy where Trump is not the shark. haha.


47 posted on 01/16/2016 12:49:06 PM PST by Zack Attack
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To: cotton1706

About time someone made them wear clothes.

48 posted on 01/16/2016 12:49:23 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: knarf

He’s calling for a “hit.”


49 posted on 01/16/2016 12:50:23 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: CodeToad

You’ve just said it all! I agree.


50 posted on 01/16/2016 12:52:56 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: M Kehoe

I absolutely agree.


51 posted on 01/16/2016 12:54:49 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: UCANSEE2

Nah. That guy was a good guy.


52 posted on 01/16/2016 12:58:23 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: cotton1706

Gray men or gay men?

Or space aliens?


53 posted on 01/16/2016 12:59:41 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: cotton1706

“Conservative New York Times columnist”

First four words in the story are a damnable lie. NYT has no conservative columnist.


54 posted on 01/16/2016 1:00:35 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Macoozie

Reads like a threat to me.
How about a visit from the Secret Service for Mr Brooks?
If the name was Obozo in that exchange, instead of Trump or Cruz, doors would be kicked in, dogs would be shot and windowless vans would be spreading away.


I agree.


55 posted on 01/16/2016 1:01:23 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Yeah, Thank God we never elected an ALF to President!


56 posted on 01/16/2016 1:06:49 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: ichabod1

"The press accused me of eating Donna Rice's cat."

57 posted on 01/16/2016 1:09:23 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: cotton1706

More and more he sounds like the most leftist columnists in the entire press.


58 posted on 01/16/2016 1:09:35 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: BenLurkin

It means “government authorities” with total power and all
the guns. - Quiche-eaters extraordinary; him, Shields &
Woodruff. They can kiss Twinkie’s royal ASS! She don’t
watch nor listen to ‘em!


59 posted on 01/16/2016 1:11:25 PM PST by Twinkie
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To: cotton1706

Now we know another “Adviser” to the Bush Family.
‘If it sounds stupid, it must be Bush’


60 posted on 01/16/2016 1:19:52 PM PST by Zathras
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