This thread discusses the Content article: Post-debate polling favors Obama over McCain

If apparent to even David Brooks are you not looking?????

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

David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and vice presidential candidates Monday afternoon, calling Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer to the Republican party" but describing John McCain and Barack Obama as "the two best candidates we've had in a long time."

In an interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg at New York's Le Cirque restaurant to unveil that magazine's redesign, Brooks decried Palin's anti-intellectualism and compared her to President Bush in that regard:

[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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/david-brooks-sarah-palin_n_133001.html

Interesting comments after the post as well.

Yep. There are informed posters out there.

I have read that when ayone says with enthusiasm "I know" how to fix this or that it likely indicates the person's mind is already made up and he/she is not going to put it out there for debate.

That is dangerous unless the person who is making the decision has relied upon as much info pro and con as available before making that pronouncement.

I beleive that Bush/Cheney have not shown a clear understanding of past issues/results and look where that has gotten this country to date!

Now if you will.........which 2008 candidate repeatedly states he "knows" how to solve a problem??????

Let me guess.
He knows how to win a war.
He knows how to find Bin Laden.
He knows Sarah is his soul mate.
He knows how to fly airplanes.
He knows how to fix the economy.
He knows how to run a clean campaign.

Am I getting close?

On a side note, the more Sarah opens her mouth, the more Republican supporters she drives away.
Thank you, John, for picking her and sinking your campaign.

He purposefully threw this election, to get revenge perhaps, on Repulican leaders that forbid him to pick Lieberman or Rdige.

If it had to be hockey mom he is determined to show them who the reformer maverick is!

What do you think?

utocoman wrote:
This thread discusses the Content article: Post-debate polling favors Obama over McCain

If apparent to even David Brooks are you not looking?????

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

David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and vice presidential candidates Monday afternoon, calling Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer to the Republican party" but describing John McCain and Barack Obama as "the two best candidates we've had in a long time."

In an interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg at New York's Le Cirque restaurant to unveil that magazine's redesign, Brooks decried Palin's anti-intellectualism and compared her to President Bush in that regard:

[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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/david-brooks-sarah-palin_n_133001.html

The Palin/McCain ticket continues to invoke the name of Ronald Reagan. Which I fear means they still believe in. The failed theory of trickle down economics.