David Brooks: "PALIN REPRESENTS A FATAL CANCER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY"...

[Red Dawn]

Even one of the nation's top conservative Pundits knows a dangerously dumb empty suit when he sees it.

Obviously Cons really like dummies. They voted for the Chimp... twice!

Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party.

When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 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. And his whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. 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.

Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's late in the night, he's on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say, 'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.

And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic. A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, 'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.' And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all have these stories to tell about his capacity for social perception.

Vice President Winky

David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party"

 

[WillowTree]

David Brooks is a drama queen.

 

[Luissa]

Even one of the nation's top conservative Pundits knows a dangerously dumb empty suit when he sees it.

Obviously Cons really like dummies. They voted for the Chimp... twice!






Vice President Winky

David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party"

I don't think you will hear stories like that about Palin!

 

[oreo]

Sarah Palin is the conservative of the republican party, ha.ha. You know that long forgotten party that beleived that hard work paid off. The party that believed government was too BIG. The party that was extremely reluctant for government to get involved in the private sector. The party that believed that Americans knew better what to do with their own money, than the government. The party that believed government spent too much of our tax dollars. She is the female version of Ronald Reagan.

Now, we see what happens when people sway from that core principle. Government in the mortage loan industry that just cost of 700 Billion dollars--by pressuring banks to loan to individuals that could not pay it back. Of which, a very liberal democrat agenda got us into this mess.

Not Obama is talking about universal health care. LOL When that goes belly up--we'll all have to sacrifice kidney's to be sold to foreign countries, versus mortgages.

 

[Chris]

Sarah Palin is the conservative of the republican party, ha.ha. You know that long forgotten party that beleived that hard work paid off. The party that believed government was too BIG. The party that was extremely reluctant for government to get involved in the private sector. The party that believed that Americans knew better what to do with their own money, than the government. The party that believed government spent too much of our tax dollars. She is the female version of Ronald Reagan.

Now, we see what happens when people sway from that core principle. Government in the mortage loan industry that just cost of 700 Billion dollars--by pressuring banks to loan to individuals that could not pay it back. Of which, a very liberal democrat agenda got us into this mess.

Not Obama is talking about universal health care. LOL When that goes belly up--we'll all have to sacrifice kidney's to be sold to foreign countries, versus mortgages.

We already have universal healthcare.

Just a really bad version of it.

And it is going belly up.....now.

 

[Luissa]

Sarah Palin is the conservative of the republican party, ha.ha. You know that long forgotten party that beleived that hard work paid off. The party that believed government was too BIG. The party that was extremely reluctant for government to get involved in the private sector. The party that believed that Americans knew better what to do with their own money, than the government. The party that believed government spent too much of our tax dollars. She is the female version of Ronald Reagan.

Now, we see what happens when people sway from that core principle. Government in the mortage loan industry that just cost of 700 Billion dollars--by pressuring banks to loan to individuals that could not pay it back. Of which, a very liberal democrat agenda got us into this mess.

Not Obama is talking about universal health care. LOL When that goes belly up--we'll all have to sacrifice kidney's to be sold to foreign countries, versus mortgages.

"Through all entities in its public-private system, the U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation in the world,[11] but is the only wealthy industrialized country in the world that lacks some form of universal health care"
Canadian and American health care systems compared - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Life expectancy is longer in Canada, and its infant mortality rate is lower than that of the U.S., "

 

[dilloduck]

"Through all entities in its public-private system, the U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation in the world,[11] but is the only wealthy industrialized country in the world that lacks some form of universal health care"
Canadian and American health care systems compared - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Life expectancy is longer in Canada, and its infant mortality rate is lower than that of the U.S., "

great--send the sick to Canada.

 

[Larkinn]

great--send the sick to Canada.

Ah the American answer to problems: They don't exist, until its an emergency.

 

[dilloduck]

Ah the American answer to problems: They don't exist, until its an emergency.

oh cmon---get credit for a pre-emptive strike !!!

 

[nia588]

palin a cancer to republican party??? oooooo shocker!

 

[rayboyusmc]

Only our elected officials have universal health care provided by the government.

We pay more per person than any other country and rank 37th in quality of care. Cuban men live longer than we do. Our infant mortality rate is one of the highest.

But don't worry. McMeds' plan will take away job sponsored health care from 20 million Americans. We'll save money when they die earlier.

 

[midcan5]

McCain's selection of Palin for VP, in and of itself, should prove to anyone who doubted before that he is totally unqualified to be president.

 

[editec]

STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT PALIN!

She is the perfect candidate to represent the Neo-Cons.

 

[rayboyusmc]

Put one of the funny hats on her with the lightening and she would fit right in.

Kill him. Kil him.Kill him. Kil him.Kill him. Kil him.Kill him. Kil him.

Please defend this type of response from one of the crowd to her hate attacks.

 

[Luissa]

STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT PALIN!

She is the perfect candidate to represent the Neo-Cons.

Why would she be the perfect candidate for the neo cons, she represents the way republicans used to think. Neo Cons refers to people who became cons during the cold war and when Ronald Reagan was President, they are more liberal!

 

[bigdaddygtr]

Sarah Palin is the conservative of the republican party, ha.ha. You know that long forgotten party that beleived that hard work paid off. The party that believed government was too BIG. The party that was extremely reluctant for government to get involved in the private sector. The party that believed that Americans knew better what to do with their own money, than the government. The party that believed government spent too much of our tax dollars. She is the female version of Ronald Reagan.

Now, we see what happens when people sway from that core principle. Government in the mortage loan industry that just cost of 700 Billion dollars--by pressuring banks to loan to individuals that could not pay it back. Of which, a very liberal democrat agenda got us into this mess.

Not Obama is talking about universal health care. LOL When that goes belly up--we'll all have to sacrifice kidney's to be sold to foreign countries, versus mortgages.

And Reagan put us into a huge deficit and a mild recession that took Clinton policies and the internet boom of the 90's to save us.

Why are people in this country so freaking dumb. Newsflash, Reagan is easily the most overrated Prez EVER

 

[Jennifer.Bush]

David Brooks is a drama queen.

and an obama groupie, from what the article said, i'm shocked he hasn't offered to be obama sex slave yet

 

[Missourian]

Universal Healthcare​

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In conjuction with:

The people who run the DMV.

Thanks, but no thanks.



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[AllieBaba]

Ah, the learned, the wonderful, the oh so moderate Brooks. Let's all listen to him, he really knows his stuff:

"[5] Issenberg uncovered several inaccuracies and distortions in Brooks's article. For example, Brooks wrote "On my journeys to Franklin County, I set a goal: I was going to spend $20 on a restaurant meal...I'd scan the menu and realize that I'd been beaten once again. I went through great vats of chipped beef and 'seafood delight' trying to drop $20. I waded through enough surf-and-turfs and enough creamed corn to last a lifetime. I could not do it." Issenberg discovered that, to the contrary, "I lunched at the Chambersburg Red Lobster and quickly realized that he could not have waded through much surf-and-turf at all. The `Steak and Lobster' combination with grilled center-cut New York strip is the most expensive thing on the menu. It costs $28.75."

When confronted with these inaccuracies, Brooks accused Issenberg of being "too pedantic" and of "taking all of this too literally".


"On January 6, 2004, Brooks wrote a column in the New York Times that seemed to accuse critics of the Iraq war of anti-Semitism, claiming "to hear these people describe it, PNAC is sort of a Yiddish Trilateral Commission, the nexus of the sprawling neocon tentacles" and that "anti-Semitism is resurgent". [6] Brooks later apologized to the paper's public editor for the column, writing "I am still on the learning curve here, and I do realize that mixture of a crack with a serious accusation was incredibly stupid on my part...Please do pass along to readers that I'm aware of how foolish I was to write the column in the way I did." [7]"

In June 2008, while appearing as a guest commentator on The Race for the White House with David Gregory, Brooks made remarks referring to Barack Obama's so called "elitism", claiming that "less educated" and "downscale" people "look at Obama, and they don't see anything", and that "Obama's problem is he doesn‘t seem like a guy who can go into an Applebee‘s salad bar and people think he fits in naturally there..."[2] Immediately following the remark, internet blogs such as Daily Kos and television programs such as the Daily Show with Jon Stewart mocked Brooks with charges of hypocrisy, especially considering that Applebee's doesn't have a salad bar. Eugene Robinson, while speaking as a guest on MSNBC, commented that "I tend to take this sociology a little more seriously when it's delivered by people who actually eat at Applebee's more than once in a decade."
David Brooks (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes, we should all listen to this guy. He's a class act and obviously on top of his game.

 

[editec]

Why would she be the perfect candidate for the neo cons,

She's ignorant, arrogant and a menace to American society.

She's the perfect candidate to continue the Bush II legacy.