Brooks: Sarah Palin Is Cancer On The GOP
From what the New York Times pretends to be a conservative:
Keep talking, you effete corp of impudent snobs. You nattering nabobs of negativity.
You are getting out the vote for McCain/PALIN like nothing else can.
(Side question: Are there not even any token heterosexuals at the New York Times?)
David Brooks is a cancer on intelligent political commentary. What a preening, narcissistic clown.
David Brooks is a narcissistic idiot, engaged in a futile quest to find love from his liberal sentinels at the New York Slimes.
David Brooks is he still masquerading as a “conservative” and don’t forget her other “cheerleader” Kathleen Parker.
Brooks (”China can be the ‘America’ of collectivism.”) needs a brain bailout, but his comments are significant. “Cancer on the GOP” is obviously intended to mirror John Dean’s comments about Watergate being a “Cancer on the Presidency.” So Palin is viewed by these types as a scandal comparable to Watergate. Nice. That tells us a great deal about establishment, Beltway conservatives. These “conservatives” are desperate to set the narrative of blame for the coming GOP rout –that is the only thing that matters to them. It won’t be the RINOs who take the fall. Oh no, never them. Brooks and his ilk are determined to make sure the blame falls on Palin when McCain loses. And yes, I said when, not “if.” The Republican Party will never recover until it purges the RINOs, and conservatives will never be credible until they expunge abominations like Brooks (and Parker) from their ranks (are you listening, National Review?) They are likely looking forward to leaving in any event.
Good point, snakehandler. Brooks and Parker are happy to put forward a conservatism that’s bound to lose. They like being losers. Maybe they figure if the GOP loses, their liberal friends will like them more.
I agree with the voter in Wisconsin — we should be in this to win! And I expect McCain and Palin to fight for us.
But perhaps like those on the Left, Dems and other assorted wingnuts Brooks and Parker buy into the msm drivel that there are no conservatives other than the ‘bitter and clinging’ gun nuts and religious freaks. Yes I believe that many too high in the GOP are wanting to push the Party to the Left (hence the nomination of RHINO McCain) – and I do agree way too many of them (including McCain) bend over backward to make nice so that the msm and Left will like them (as if that will ever happen), but I do believe that another of the problem is that a lot of people on the right have bought into the poll driven, American Idol voting, crisis of the week is news mentality fomented by the msm. And a person like Sarah Palin drives them nuts – to be so straightforward and so black and white about life, right and wrong and imagine (gasp) holding political people (no matter what Party) accountable for their behavior.
Funny thing is these fair weather friends will be touting McCain/Palin to the hilt, should they win. Just like the msm will be touting the economy on Nov 5th should Obama win – they are as predictable as they are shallow.
This is for later, the important thing now is to keep Obama in the Senate rather than the White House.
Our real problem is that most, if not all, of us Conservatives are RINOs because we have no choice. The way elections work is that the only possible winners are either Democrats or Republicans and the GOP is the closest to conservative, but it is not now and never has been Conservative.
Yes, Reagan, Buckley, and you and me have voted Republican for years, seldom won and with the shining exception of Reagan, our few winners were disasters, including GW, although he did a creditable job in the war on terror, except it took him too long to get going and he stopped too soon.
There are many more Conservatives out there than we think, but they are not all in the GOP. Reagan won not because Republicans voted for him, but because Conservatives of both parties voted for him. Reagan was strong enough to carry out his and our programs in spite of the opposition of the Old Guard GOP and this was a great country for eight wonderful years. It’s been going downhill since.
What we need to do is create a new major party, the Conservative Party with a clearly defined set of ideals and standards that Conservatives can support. This is not the time to do that, but it is time to start the groundwork so that there is a real choice next time, and we won’t have to hold our noses or get drunk before entering the voting booth.
I’m just a tired old backwoods boy without any clout, but I’m ready to pitch in and do what I can. Anybody out there who wants to join me? I move we get Sarah Palin as our first presidential candidate ’cause I’ll bet after four years with the GOP mainstream she’ll be feeling the need for a real change — and for VP, we couldn’t do better than Chairman Ann.
Just a thought, in the meantime our real job is to get McCain and Palin in and try to keep McCain from giving the country away as soon as he takes office.