NY Times conservative columnist David Brooks, one of my favorite
commentators really slams Palin. Again.
"[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. "
And on Obama he said:
"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."
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