AMERICAblog: Conservative writer David Brooks: Sarah Palin "represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party"
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
Brooks, you're still a soft-headed lightweight... you've been the Chimp's cheerleader for years and you ain't foolin no one now.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
Looks like some Republicans are finally saying in public what they have said in private since Palin was chosen for McCain by the Republican establishment.
He's a real maverick alright.. he wanted to choose Lieberman, but bowed to his Republican masters and was forced to pick Sarah Palin.
shrrrr
· 1 year ago
How McSame came to his decision of Palin really wont be known until those losers closest to McSame write their books in about a year. It could be that he picked her to spite those that would not take Lieberman, not make them happy. We really don't know the answer yet.
fostert
· 1 year ago
Is it just me, or is David Brooks acting as erratically as McCain? I can't figure out which side he's on anymore. I guess it's a good thing that he's not completely in the tank for one candidate or the other. But he can't go a week without switching sides. Does he even know what he's talking about anymore? Or is it that he just has occasional moments of sanity?
mikeyDe
· 1 year ago
Brooks and McCain take the same alzheimers supplement.
1970cs
· 1 year ago
He needs a job for the next 4 years and trying to get himself access while still writing for the NYT is a better option for him than being a FOX propagandist.
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
I remember the interviews of listeners after the Biden-Palin debate on NPR. There were several Republicans saying that they would vote for Palin because they could not understand Biden. He was too over their heads. Aside from the fact that Biden did keep his points as simple as he reasonably could, I kept hearing the sentiment pushed by these "know nothing" conservatives that they would vote for Palin because the issues were just too complicated and Palin was just so simple like them. Just what we need in our country.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
btw.. new gallup poll shows Obama up 11 points (52-41).
Wow.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
And it just cracks me up that Joe Scarborough and other righties are pounding the drum saying that this is warming Palin up for a run PREZ in 2012. LMAO LOL :)
Milli
· 1 year ago
Stop, you're scaring the children who may read this blog.
snowbird42
· 1 year ago
Mc Cain is doing it again. Just now, at a rally in Pennsylvania, McCain was talking about what he's gonna do to fix the economy. After laying out a few (lame as usual) details, he said this:
You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt that the federal government has run up, and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office. Across this country this is the agenda I've set before my fellow prisoners, and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.
Milli
· 1 year ago
They're just noticing this now? This should have been apparent from first Bushism that came out of the mouth of our horrible president.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Oh no he doesn't. That sleazy bastard can't try to run away from his lies now. Brooks is as much a fraud now as he has been for years.
Payback's a bitch you skanky tool.
michaelt
· 1 year ago
thier losing their shit, all of them.
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
That's because she isn't a republican...she's just there to infiltrate.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
lol if she's just an "infiltrater" I have news for you: so are the rest of them.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
My thoughts, exactly.
slappymagoo
· 1 year ago
It's not just ideas. It's learning that's Kryptonite to these dolts. Anyone who wants to know more than what the Good Book tells them they oughta know is elitist in their eyes.
And the GOP is partly to blame.
They used Nazi-esque tactics to attract the dumbest members of our society - there's always someone attacking your way of life, there's always someone saying you're crap, there's always someone trying to keep you down. And it's the liberals! And the college professors! And the media in the big cities! Don't listen to 'em! Listen to us! We'll tell you eeeeeeverything you need to know! They propped 'em up emotionally while playing them politically, convincing them their opinions were valued when all they ever really valued was their votes.
Well, guess what, sparky? Now all those dummies don't just want to be in the GOP, they want to help run it. And there's way more of them then there are puppetmasters who can keep all them strings pulling the same way at the same time. The GOP preached mediocrity not just as A virtue but as THE virtue, the one to be prized above all else. And when medicority becomes that standardized, it becomes the new smart, which means mediocre has to get dumber. Now you got millions proud of their backwards-ness, proud of never having seen the world, proud of not learning themselves nothing they didn't need to learn nohow. And they vote. Smooth move, Exlax.
Idiocracy isn't the funniest movie ever made but it sure as Hell was prescient.
mikeyDe
· 1 year ago
Brooks was willing to accept the Bush's lack of ideas so long as the money kept flowing in. Now that everything has turned to shit there's no point in keeping up the fraud.
I almost wish McCain would win -- I haven't suffered enough and I still have a little money left.
nanorich
· 1 year ago
For a guy who claims to love the common man, David sure hates populism!
Regarding Morning Joe actually believing Palin would have a chance in hell of making it in a run for President next time around just goes to show how low the conservatives have sunk. By that time I hope she is back in her little town in Alaska, taking care of her 5 kids, and maybe taking speech lessons in her spare time. The Alaskans have surely realized what a loser she is and won't let her back within 'shouting out' distance of the Governor's office.
What is it about her voice that grates on me? I have to turn off the TV whenever she comes on. Not only is her down-home cutesy way of speaking getting old fast but her shrill voice is a killer. The repugs are so desperate they claim to love her and probably when it comes to a choice between her or old man McCain she might look attractive to them. It is a sad, sad reflection of what our country has become if the repugs really, really believe she is a candidate they would want representing their Party.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
TrooperGate Friday!!!!
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
I've said it before: her voice alone makes me wish I were deaf.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
I'll admit it. I find her voice grating on my nerves.
That's not what makes her a horrible, trashy person though. It is who she is deep down that disgusts me.
Excuse me now. I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
I agree about the voice. It really is high pitch and crude. It just shows what low standards the republicans have, when they pick their leaders. Never mind they cannot put a sentence together (Bush), never mind they are not deep thinkers, and never mind, we will be the laughing stock of the world. They have given us two empty suits these past two elections, Bush and the She Bush, Palin.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
60. We need 60 in the Senate. Don't let up. Nov 2006..that was amazing... We're on a roll.....
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
After thinking about it more, I would have to correct himbo David Brooks.
The cancer in the Repuke party is manifold: Cheney Bush Rumsfailed Brooks Krauthammer Kissinger Rove
etc.
Palin is just the most famous current metastasis.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
I don't know what tomorrow will bring in terms of the polls, but today OBAMA IS 11 POINTS AHEAD of McLame, according to Gallup. Hooray, Yipee, Yes, we can. McLame and Virago Sarah, are getting hammered by 'THAT ONE". Ha ha.
Here is something you will enjoy, and laugh at. We deserve a good laugh.
Thanks for the link. It did make me laugh. I loved the steam locomotive.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
You are very welcome. I thought it was spot on.
Hurrycane
· 1 year ago
ROTFLMAO! Thanks!
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
OT Secy Paulson on MSNBC. I don't get what he is talking about and don't think he does either. Terrible speaker. Terrible Secy of Treas.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
What impressed me about the complete David Brooks article is that he recognizes the full extent of Obama. He is both intelligent and has social perception. Now that is saying a lot from a died in the wool conservative. Praise like this coming from David Brooks is rare. Perhaps he is finally coming around to the fact that while Obama draws huge crowds, it is not because he is a "rock star", it is because the man is ahead of his time in leading a nation through intelligence and understanding.
bacalove
· 1 year ago
Well said.
txstevo
· 1 year ago
I've been wondering how Republicans expect America to remain competitive in the world when they ushered in an era of anti-intellectualism. Republicans seem to celebrate ignorance and look down on educated people. Sometimes I feel like we're through the looking glass.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
If David Brooks is serious about the damage those people who disdain ideas and run the Republican are then I'm sure he will be happy to ask all the Republicans to JUST STAY HOME this election?
Brooks has cheerleaded that kind of vacuous Republican leadership in the most recent past, and NOW HE TELLS US? I think its a little late, don't you?
I'm scared because I'm starting to agree with more and more conservatives about McCain and Palin being such disasters, and their sudden epiphany they have supported very dangerous ignorant leaders.
Zorba
· 1 year ago
There has been a big strain of anti-intellectualism in this country for a long, long time, and it's not just the more recent Republicans who have fostered this (although they have made it worse). There is a story told about Adlai Stevenson, when he was running against Dwight Eisenhower. Supposedly, a lady in a crowd shouted out to him, "Senator Stevenson! You have the vote of every thinking person!" He relied, "It's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"
woodroad34
· 1 year ago
I think it's more 'anti-smart' than 'anti-intellectual'. Dumb people don't understand words with more than 5 letters, let alone hyphenated ones. They merely want someone who doesn't make them feel dumb as they buy houses they can't afford or rebel against following commonsense rules for being mature. These people are ruled by immature emotions; they'd have to pull out an Advil if they actually broke a sweat trying to actually analyze anything.
Nylund
· 1 year ago
Oh if only the media would mention McCain, fatal Cancer, and Palin together more frequently.
Although he's got the ordering wrong. The fatal cancer will kill McCain, not the party, and then Palin will represent the party, not the cancer.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Brooks, like Will, Frum, and the rest of the pointy-headed, Applebees salad bar-eating, bow tie-wearing, Poindexters can't stomach this woman, who reeks of Christianist anti-Semitism, hijacking "their" Party. Tough.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Hey watch it lady! I wear only bow ties!!!! Hee hee...love you, mean it!
shanobama
· 1 year ago
No, Brooks really meant Sarah Palin was waiting for McCains fatal cancer to give her the presidency.
Brooks is a two faced whore. He sees the writing on the polls and is making a pre-emptive strike at ingratiating himself with his new Hopey overlord. fuc*er.
dcastro
· 1 year ago
Footage of Obama in Asheville, NC and Rednecks for Obama
I think the conservatives of the Republican party have been shouted down by the neo-con core that subscribe to the mindless drivel of someone like Palin. Like Bush, she can’t connect the words of a sentence properly, but it doesn’t matter. When the Republican core hear the words God, country, and liberal splashed around they are programmed to cheer. Substance means nothing to them, nor does policy. They are so consumed by their dogma that they cannot reason. Just listen to Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, or even some of the Fox network commentators. Nothing will ever sway their partisan opinions. That’s what type of leadership we have endured for the past eight long years, and thankfully it is coming to an end. I only wish people like Will, Brooks, and even Parker would have spoken out much sooner.
bacalove
· 1 year ago
Conservative David Brooks on Barack Obama - "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.
Brooks predicted an Obama victory by nine points, and said that although he found Obama to be "a very mediocre senator," he was is surrounded by what Brooks called "by far the most impressive people in the Democratic party."
And since the GOP wanted the white trash NASCAR beer swillers SO fucking much...with their faggot-hate...their racism...and their collective IQs of five points, now they see where that finally landed their grand old party by having Caribou Barbie, Governor Airhead, as their candidate.
But I think the worst part of this, for the white trash base, is that the uppity Negro is better than they are and they cannot stand it. They cannot stand the fact that a black guy is smarter, better educated, more of a thinker.
I am thrilled about where the GOP is today. Thrilled. I have heard the fag bashing coming out of their mouths for thirty years. I have watched them get elected over and over and work against my rights.
I hope the party dies out altogether.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Can't believe anyone on this blog thinks Brooks is a conservative.
nsr
· 1 year ago
I gotta laugh when Brooks invokes Buckley as the leading light of an intellectual movement. We saw the real William F Buckley when Gore Vidal goaded him into a tirade on live TV at the 1968 Democratic convention-- "Quit calling me a crypto-nazi, you god damn queer, or I'll punch you in the face and you'll stay plastered!" The thing of it was, Buckley was a nazi. He started out as an apologist for Sen Joseph R McCarthy (hardly an intellectual), who defended the Nazi soldiers who killed our POWs at Malmedy. And throughout the sixties, Buckley specialized in providing arguments for southern racists, the most backward, intolerant and anti-intellectual knuckledraggers since Millard Fillmore. And, I might add, some of Ronald Reagan's stanchest supporters.
Bobo's being less than honest here. There is no respectable intellectual tradition on the right, not since the moderates were driven out in 1964. Their base won't allow it, and considering their philosophy for the last 60 years has been that intellectuals are all pinko fags, I really don't know what he's talking about.
therepguy
· 1 year ago
You bet she is... and it's called "christian fascism" and if there was ever a movement that needed to be outlawed in this country... this would be the one!
And they're not going away!
Sadly many fair minded folks support this movement not fully realizing its fascist roots or intentions!
Still don't agree goggle "Key Characteristic of a Fascist Goverment" or "Christian Fascism" bit be for warned... you going to find a eye full!
Fascism 1.01
Key Characteristics of a Fascist Government 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 4. Supremacy of the Military 5. Rampant Sexism ...including the suppression of divorce, abortion rights, and homosexuality in favor of a “traditional” family structure, with the state positioned as the ultimate guardian of the family institution) 6. Controlled Mass Media Using Propaganda and Censorship 7. Obsession with National Security Using Fear as a Motivational Tool 8. Intertwining of Religion and Government 9. Corporatism 10. Suppression of Labor Power 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption 14. Fraudulent Elections
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
naturally, jesus doesn't need any stinking ideas...
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
Requiem for the Reagan Revolution: let the eulogies begin !
trebl
· 1 year ago
SLEAZY SARAH! What an insult to the American voters.
All Comments
you've been the Chimp's cheerleader for years and you ain't foolin no one now.
He's a real maverick alright.. he wanted to choose Lieberman, but bowed to his Republican masters and was forced to pick Sarah Palin.
Wow.
LMAO LOL :)
Just now, at a rally in Pennsylvania, McCain was talking about what he's gonna do to fix the economy. After laying out a few (lame as usual) details, he said this:
You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt that the federal government has run up, and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office. Across this country this is the agenda I've set before my fellow prisoners, and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.
Payback's a bitch you skanky tool.
And the GOP is partly to blame.
They used Nazi-esque tactics to attract the dumbest members of our society - there's always someone attacking your way of life, there's always someone saying you're crap, there's always someone trying to keep you down. And it's the liberals! And the college professors! And the media in the big cities! Don't listen to 'em! Listen to us! We'll tell you eeeeeeverything you need to know! They propped 'em up emotionally while playing them politically, convincing them their opinions were valued when all they ever really valued was their votes.
Well, guess what, sparky? Now all those dummies don't just want to be in the GOP, they want to help run it. And there's way more of them then there are puppetmasters who can keep all them strings pulling the same way at the same time. The GOP preached mediocrity not just as A virtue but as THE virtue, the one to be prized above all else. And when medicority becomes that standardized, it becomes the new smart, which means mediocre has to get dumber. Now you got millions proud of their backwards-ness, proud of never having seen the world, proud of not learning themselves nothing they didn't need to learn nohow. And they vote. Smooth move, Exlax.
Idiocracy isn't the funniest movie ever made but it sure as Hell was prescient.
I almost wish McCain would win -- I haven't suffered enough and I still have a little money left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYFm5kK4f1k&eurl...
Quick, Cindy, more Neuro 1!
What is it about her voice that grates on me? I have to turn off the TV whenever she comes on. Not only is her down-home cutesy way of speaking getting old fast but her shrill voice is a killer. The repugs are so desperate they claim to love her and probably when it comes to a choice between her or old man McCain she might look attractive to them. It is a sad, sad reflection of what our country has become if the repugs really, really believe she is a candidate they would want representing their Party.
That's not what makes her a horrible, trashy person though. It is who she is deep down that disgusts me.
Excuse me now. I just threw up a little in my mouth.
We need 60 in the Senate.
Don't let up.
Nov 2006..that was amazing...
We're on a roll.....
The cancer in the Repuke party is manifold:
Cheney
Bush
Rumsfailed
Brooks
Krauthammer
Kissinger
Rove
etc.
Palin is just the most famous current metastasis.
McLame and Virago Sarah, are getting hammered by 'THAT ONE".
Ha ha.
Here is something you will enjoy, and laugh at. We deserve a good laugh.
http://www.vulomedia.com/images/62548electiontr...
Brooks has cheerleaded that kind of vacuous Republican leadership in the most recent past, and NOW HE TELLS US? I think its a little late, don't you?
I'm scared because I'm starting to agree with more and more conservatives about McCain and Palin being such disasters, and their sudden epiphany they have supported very dangerous ignorant leaders.
Although he's got the ordering wrong. The fatal cancer will kill McCain, not the party, and then Palin will represent the party, not the cancer.
Brooks is a two faced whore. He sees the writing on the polls and is making a pre-emptive strike at ingratiating himself with his new Hopey overlord. fuc*er.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr03WpZdhJo
and read Everything Matters, a liberally progressive comedic blog
http://blueintheblueridge.blogspot.com/
thanks.
"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.
Brooks predicted an Obama victory by nine points, and said that although he found Obama to be "a very mediocre senator," he was is surrounded by what Brooks called "by far the most impressive people in the Democratic party."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/david-...
But I think the worst part of this, for the white trash base, is that the uppity Negro is better than they are and they cannot stand it. They cannot stand the fact that a black guy is smarter, better educated, more of a thinker.
I am thrilled about where the GOP is today. Thrilled. I have heard the fag bashing coming out of their mouths for thirty years. I have watched them get elected over and over and work against my rights.
I hope the party dies out altogether.
Bobo's being less than honest here. There is no respectable intellectual tradition on the right, not since the moderates were driven out in 1964. Their base won't allow it, and considering their philosophy for the last 60 years has been that intellectuals are all pinko fags, I really don't know what he's talking about.
And they're not going away!
Sadly many fair minded folks support this movement not fully realizing its fascist roots or intentions!
Still don't agree goggle "Key Characteristic of a Fascist Goverment" or "Christian Fascism" bit be for warned... you going to find a eye full!
Fascism 1.01
Key Characteristics of a Fascist Government
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism ...including the suppression of divorce, abortion rights, and homosexuality in favor of a “traditional” family structure, with the state positioned as the ultimate guardian of the family institution)
6. Controlled Mass Media Using Propaganda and Censorship
7. Obsession with National Security Using Fear as a Motivational Tool
8. Intertwining of Religion and Government
9. Corporatism
10. Suppression of Labor Power
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections