"She's a joke. I can't take her seriously," says Brooks.
The other conservative, George Will: "Some conservatives think they have found in Sarah Palin a Republican William Jennings Bryan. Now, why would they want someone who lost the presidency three times?"
See ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Crooks and Liars.
As someone else commented on another blog, it is interesting how the neoconservative establishment (Fox News called Palin out as well, a little while longer ago) is turning on Palin now. However useful an idiot they thought she might have been in turning out the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-minority, anti-devil vote for the McCain ticket, it is certain they don't want such a rudderless and not terribly bright tool as president after their bad experiences with eight years of W.
ReplyDeleteI think the 'Tammy Bruce feminists' are in for a nasty revelation of just how 'misogynistic' the Republican Party is when Palin is running against someone neoconservatives love.
I don't think I'd classify Brooks or Will as neoconservatives - emphasis on "neo." As I remarked in a previous post re Brooks, he's criticized Palin from the get-go, calling her shallow, uninformed and inexperienced among other things.
ReplyDeleteNo, Brooks and Will definitely fall under the 'neoconservative' label as far as the neoconservative vs paleoconservative debate goes. Pro-corporate, hawkish, classists as opposed to the populist, isolationist, racist category of paleoconservatives as epitomized by, say, Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul.
ReplyDeleteBrooks was on the Obama bandwagon earlier than some of the other conservatives who jumped on it as well, I remember.
I was simply thinking of "neo" as "new."
ReplyDeleteDavid Brooks is the one conservative commentator that I enjoy. He is intelligent and fair. I rarely agree with him but on this one he is 'spot on.'
ReplyDeleteThank you, Darlene. I posted about one of his Times' columns where he wrote that all the shrill yacking by the Limbaughs & Becks hasn't attracted votes. But then I turned around and slammed him for his reaction to Obama's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. He was really quite ugly and I supect a bit in his cups, to say the least. Even Lehrer was knocked off balance. His reaction was worth the price of admission.
ReplyDeleteNo, I was definitely referring to their philosophical commitments.
ReplyDeleteSally P is definitely more 'paleo.' Under normal circumstances, the Wills and Brookses and Kristols of the world are not great fans of the Palins, Buchanans, and Pauls of the world.