Major was Margaret Thatcher's "gray man in a suit" successor in the 1990s.
Not sure if he's a US NBC.
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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Major was Margaret Thatcher's "gray man in a suit" successor in the 1990s.
Not sure if he's a US NBC.
Thomas Gage, Captain General and Governor in Chief of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay to William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth and Secretary of State for the Colonies, July 5, 1773:"Since my letter No. 3 of 26th Ulmo, a Number of the better Sort of People attended a Town-Meeting at Boston with Design to make a Push to pay for the Tea, and annihilate the Committee of Correspondence; but they were outvoted by a great Majority of the lower Class...
Nor have you any balls.
GRAY MEN?
This is just effing weird.
Raises some hackles, too, like there's something people aren't telling us about.
It means that he wishes “hit men” would take out Cruz and Trump. Despicable punk.
This is a threat lock him up
“You can say that again!”
Ya know, if you practice it, it just rolls right off the tongue!
XD
Brooks has NEW YORK VALUES!!!
I LOV ALF!!! LOVE HIM!!!
Might be a “Wheel of Time” reference......Gray Men were shadowspawn assassins.
And have the right donors no doubt.
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