Quotes of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on September 16, 2008 by Allahpundit
“Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness.
The idea that ‘the people’ will take on and destroy ‘the establishment’ is a utopian fantasy that corrupted the left before it corrupted the right. Surely the response to the current crisis of authority is not to throw away standards of experience and prudence, but to select leaders who have those qualities but not the smug condescension that has so marked the reaction to the Palin nomination in the first place.”
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“Populism rests on two great insights. First, it understands that the people (taken as a whole) are often wiser and more prudent than the elites. Average people are almost always respectful of tradition, while elites tend to act like an angry mob trying to tear down the old idols. Second, populism understands that it’s not enough to actually have the right policy ideas, you have to have the will to take on the elites who will try to prevent those ideas from going into place. In order to get anything accomplished, the GOP is going to have to use public opinion to override the objections of liberals, including liberals in the media.
Does Sarah Palin have the political skills to successfully govern this country from a populist perspective? It’s far too early to say. She is certainly the most promising such figure to come along since the elites were denouncing Ronald Reagan. And therefore we should all wish her well. It is silly to criticize her at this early stage until we know a lot more about her abilities as a leader. I am glad to say that her instincts appear to be sound.”
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FIRE UP TEH CUDA…
stlpatriot on September 16, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Jesus Christ .. this shit never ends.
redrock on September 16, 2008 at 10:42 PM
IS PALIN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?????????? THIS IS NEWS TO ME
battleoflepanto1571 on September 16, 2008 at 10:43 PM
“IS PALIN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?”
well, duh1 seems to think so …
:-)
:-)
Buckaroo on September 16, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Wait…I’m supposed to be an elitist?
Dang. Must have missed that memo.
Slublog on September 16, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Couldn’t agree more.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 10:44 PM
… which just means Palin is THE person to send to Washington. America is sick of the career politicians. Send in this woman who has no ties to the entrenched establishment, and let her clean house dammit! And YES, she has the political skills.
ErinF on September 16, 2008 at 10:44 PM
this was really the money quote: “Well, at the risk of appearing brash, let me say that I am glad to see my old friend finally pushed to the point where he has to make an overt defense of elitism, after years of demonstrating covert support for elitism.”
right on… brooks has been teasing out his new elitist, nytimes safe conservatism for sometime now. but its still a shocker to see him just out himself like this.
thankful on September 16, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Yeah, we don’t want any of that “excessive decisiveness” stuff in our next President. By that measure I suppose Uhbama is a viable candidate.
flenser on September 16, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Oh for the love of….
reaganaut on September 16, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Is that like jumbo shrimp?
baldilocks on September 16, 2008 at 10:47 PM
David Brookes is an elitist, Northeast RINO of the Christine Whitman & Nelson Rockefeller school. The kind that looks down their noses at Republicans who actually take their conservatism and their religion seriously.
I have no idea why they put him the Op-Ed page when he clearly shares ideological company with the editors.
ManlyRash on September 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
LOL. Nice to know that I’m not the only one who thinks that is a ridiculous concept.
baldilocks on September 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
placing those two words together tells you ALL you need to know about such a person’s worldview …
Buckaroo on September 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
More like being “incredibly pregnant.”
ManlyRash on September 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
They can spew all they want, but what I know is Governor Sarah Palin speaks for me!!!!! A registered nurse, wife, mother of three! Governor Palin will send a CLEAR message, that America’s cash cow is no longer silent. I love what Governor Sarah Palin is doing. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!
bloggless on September 16, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Maybe what we need is a constitutional amendment for strict term limits in federal office. Or perhaps not limits, maybe serve as many terms as you can be elected but never two consecutive terms. The end of incumbency?
Browncoatone on September 16, 2008 at 10:49 PM
When will the issue become …are the Presidential Candidates qualified? If the media did their job Mr. Obama would not stand a chance and lose by 10 pts or more.
Jamson64 on September 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Now that I think about it…yeah.
baldilocks on September 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Laura Ingram made some astonishingly good points in that email rant. For instance!
More like Ingram less like Frum, Brooks…metrosexual wimps who might be better off just declaring for Obama. Matter of fact it would be delightful if all the pundits would truthfully alert us to who they are voting for this fall.
I think a lot of the folks we are taking for granted as voting for McCain will not. The sheer numbers will not amount to a bucket of spit but their names will surprise us. Who else among the so-called right wing will have a Andrew Sullivan type awakening?
PierreLegrand on September 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM
the elites have gotton us a $10 trillion debt, a $500billion deficet, two protracted wars, a underfunded social security system, a underfunded medicare system, the highest tax rates on businesses forcing our companies overseas with over regualtion, 44.00/gal gasoline, outdate electric generation system, outdated electric transmission system, crumbling roads and bridges, undermaned army, a collapesing banking system, a falling dollar, a divied country, 50 million dead babies.
I think it is time we have a look at the alternative of government by the people, for the people and OF the people. We can not afford 4 more years of experienced government running this country IMO
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM
“Maybe what we need is a constitutional amendment for strict term limits in federal office”
from your keyboard …
/might face a SMALL uphill battle on that one tho!
:-)
Buckaroo on September 16, 2008 at 10:51 PM
LI is awesome!
csdeven on September 16, 2008 at 10:52 PM
No, no, no, no.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Then do away with the seniority rules, sans seniority we’d be spared Robert Byrd (d)-KKK
sven10077 on September 16, 2008 at 10:55 PM
“Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 10:53 PM”
i would LOVE to hear this defended …
Buckaroo on September 16, 2008 at 10:55 PM
This just in, our Veep is hotter than your ticket and just as “qualified” as your #1 Dave…
sven10077 on September 16, 2008 at 10:56 PM
God forbid an executive should be decisive.
Better form a committee to study that.
irishspy on September 16, 2008 at 10:56 PM
No, no, no, no.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 10:53 PM
I agree term limits are not the answer. What we need is to expand the house to keep up with an expanding population like the founding fathers wanted. It has been 104 years since the house expanded in size. in 1904 the population was 100 million and we had 435 congressmen. today the population is 300 million and we still have 435 congressman. Our vote is 2/3rds less powerful today than it was in 1904. The congress passed a law in 1904 to cap the size of the house setting in motion the idea that the house is no longer that of the people’s but of special interests.
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 10:56 PM
I forget your reasons. Refresh me?
flenser on September 16, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Considering the alternative this time, Brooks’ concerns are so beside the point it hardly matters. The main qualification for President is, as McCain said, to love America more than you love yourself. Obama seems much more ambivalent than that. Anybody that can sit quietly in a Church pew hearing America being slandered for twenty years is much less qualified to be President than Sarah Palin.
RBMN on September 16, 2008 at 10:57 PM
People have the right to their representation of choice not restricted by the Constitution, that said the seniority rules mean a guy like Rangel or Dollar Bill gets “presidente for life” karma back home….
sven10077 on September 16, 2008 at 10:57 PM
These people just won’t stop. David Brooks is the smartest dumb person I’ve ever seen.
D0WNT0WN on September 16, 2008 at 10:58 PM
So those rules in the Constitution regarding things like age and US citizenship should be tossed? No, people don’t have that right.
flenser on September 16, 2008 at 11:00 PM
What a moron. Sound like he just read Aristotle’s Nichomacean Ethics — hence “Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times…”
Philosophical debates are often contrived, and not oddly, but when necessary, to bootstrap one’s preconceived notions into a seemingly-rational framework.
“The prudent leader possesses a repetoire of events” — indeed!! What. a. load. of. crap! The prudent leader is careful and thrifty, more like Sarah Palin than Obama, who blew his $50 million Anneberg grant on God knows what.
Is Obama a careful student of History? He didn’t know that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and not Hawaii.
Does Obama have experience? He has experience in getting himself elected, but nothing like the practical experience in governance that Palin has.
Does Obama favor deliberation? Or does he favor a non-committal position that takes no courage to back up? (Rhetorical question).
Mr. Brooks, please take a little more time with your next philosophical analysis — not all of your conservative critics are relying on their animal “instincts” when they go with someone you don’t understand.
pomerpants on September 16, 2008 at 11:02 PM
“People have the right to their representation of choice not restricted by the Constitution”
except for we codified 10 and out for the executive branch and everyone is completely cool with that …
hence, the leg. should have ~12 and out [lower house] and ~24 and out [upper house] and i’m not seeing any sort of issue here …
Buckaroo on September 16, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Joe Biden is probably spinning in his grave over all the attention Palin is getting. He is not dead??? Coulda fooled me. (He’s merely resting…pining for the fjords).
HawaiiLwyr on September 16, 2008 at 11:03 PM
I would feel much better with a leader who showed restrained indecisiveness.
Bishop on September 16, 2008 at 11:03 PM
*sigh*
Reread what I typed.
You *can* add to the Constitution but when I was a boy we were taught that little manuever was for BIG things. If the people of west Virginia think Bobby Byrd doing his Lenin in state impersonation is cool with them until he is as dead in body as he is in mind it is their lookout.
sven10077 on September 16, 2008 at 11:03 PM
I know this is off topic, but tonight on Hannity and Colmbes (or whatever his name is) they had a Christine Pelosi who is a superdelegate in California. She is Nasty Pelosi’s daughter and for this reason, I say we need Governor Sarah Palin to clean the cronism, nepotism, and whatever isms are left, out of Washington, DC. I am sick of it. It is like they have a birth right or something. She even went so far as complaining about women’s reproductive rights. I am sure she is a “devout Catholic just like her mother”. We need to clean the house of Kennedys, Bidens, Pelosis and all the other clinger ons.
bloggless on September 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Laura vs. David: I’ve got tone…lock….fox one!
dmann on September 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Well, people generally want term limits so they can shirk they responsibility. It’s the responsibility of the citizenry to hold politicians accountable. If you delegate that responsibility to the system itself, you are in a much worse position. It is, in fact, a government answer to a government problem. I don’t want any solutions that take the people out of the equation.
Just think, if you had a problem with a guy, you just resign yourself, oh, he’ll be out soon. There is no mobilization against bills, no primary challenges (just getting in line) etc. It’s a disaster. The people will become less and less engaged.
Moreover the politicians will become more, not less, corrupt. They will only have a limited time to score money, etc, so they will have a vested interest in securing a viable future. Read: Special Interests -> Jobs post-Government.
It’s a solution that bears more problems, not less. And it is, at it’s essence, just a way for the citizenry to shirk it’s responsibility because it’s lazy.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM
How would conservatives like Jim DeMint or Jeff Sessions replaced by liberal Republicans because of term limits? How would liberals like Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Bob Casey, or Russ Feingold replaced due to term limits?
amerpundit on September 16, 2008 at 11:05 PM
The pity is the GOP did not push that through when the “Dear God FDR is the first emperor of America” amendment was written….trusting the Congress to limit itself is akin to my trusting a fox to guard my hens….but I digress.
sven10077 on September 16, 2008 at 11:05 PM
I should add, I don’t think any president should serve two terms, but I think it was a big mistake to term limit him also because it creates an artificial imbalance in our checks and balances during any second term.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 11:06 PM
I’d like to know what Brooks thinks of Martin Luther… or Joan of Arc for that matter. Looking down his nose at them, I’m sure.
Pianobuff on September 16, 2008 at 11:06 PM
quite akin to my main source of rage with McCain/Feingold, “save us from ourselves” is the battlecry of an undisciplined mind.
sven10077 on September 16, 2008 at 11:06 PM
I don’t disagree. The intention of the House is to reflect the people’s will. It’s alteration now has effected that. Consequently I have no real objection to that idea.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Football coach Bud Grant always said about drafting players: F*** experience, draft talent and find a way to use it.
allrsn on September 16, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Wow, they’re getting more subtle in their attacks…
We must be cautious…
Give kudos..but then appeal to the ‘real thinkers, movers, and shakers’ in the party…
I thank God for the Internet…
not you AL……
BigWyo on September 16, 2008 at 11:09 PM
“no primary challenges”
fwiw, my municipality has term limits for both elected branches, and the races BEFORE folks are term-limited out are WAY more competitive than the open ones …
Buckaroo on September 16, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 11:08 PM
the great thing about it is we do not need Congress to agree with it. It is the 1st admendment to the consitution. Several states did ratify it at the time but not a majority. So it was never ratified but there was no time limit imposed on it. We just need I think 27 states to ratify it and it becomes the law of the land.
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Is this gonna be a JC tosses the merchants out of the temple kinda 4 years with Palin in Washington? Probably not while she is only a veep, but she is probably the only one now with McCain that could at least give it a go. More power to’em.
By the way, Home Run on McCain’s Vienna, OH speech there. He needs to keep those uplifting but attacking Obama’s lies every stop and in his campaign adds from now til Nov.
Sapwolf on September 16, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Precisely.
The solution, as I see it, is engaging the public more on important issues. I believe it was Adams who once said that politics was the national religion. The internet should make this easier, not more difficult. Theoretically, we should be moving toward more accountability, not less, but for a variety of reasons, I don’t really think that is happening.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 11:11 PM
It’s amazing how stupid smart people can be.
And it’s wondrous how smart common people can be.
Those who know these two things are wise. Would that the wise were more common. Especially in the conservative movement, Mr. Brooks!
Thank you, Ms. Lopez. That was a very good piece of writing.
Loxodonta on September 16, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Yeah. Be nice if we had a party that really talked about those issues instead of just bitching about Iraq war like Mr. Constitution RPaul.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 11:15 PM
My response got eaten, maybe temporary. But in short, I hear ya.
Spirit of 1776 on September 16, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Are you aware that the left intends to kill the first admendment? (starting with free speach and free press)
They have made two softball attempts to test and get people used to control. If Obama is elected and the keep control of the houses the first admendment is dead.
allrsn on September 16, 2008 at 11:18 PM
Loxodonta on September 16, 2008 at 11:13 PM
it is not that common people are smart, it is that for a majority of people to approve of something the idea will have to be smart. The famous quote from churchhill explains it best:
You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time but you can not foll all the people all the time.
Thus overtime the smartness of the “people” excels over those of the elites “the some of the people all the time”
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Stop the presses…
How did anyone miss this little gem from The One?
Are you f**ing kidding me?
So, let me get thing right, Barry… I am “basically decent” with the exception that I watch, listen and read things that disagree with you?
Gee, sorry us basically decent, bitter people are too busy clinging to guns and bibles and listening to the wrong media to be as exceptional as you and your racist, felon and terrorist friends.
This man does not deserve to breathe American air.
Damiano on September 16, 2008 at 11:20 PM
*shrug*
Either she believes what she’s saying, or she doesn’t. Neither Brooks nor Ingraham will have a say on the consequences of the answer to that question.
Reagan did, and it showed. His successors did not. It showed.
spmat on September 16, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Are you aware that the left intends to kill the first admendment? (starting with free speach and free press)
They have made two softball attempts to test and get people used to control. If Obama is elected and the keep control of the houses the first admendment is dead.
allrsn on September 16, 2008 at 11:18 PM
Allrsn,
I am talking about the 1st amendment that was never ratified. the present 1st amendment “freedom of speech” was actually the 3rd amendment. the 2nd amendment was only ratified in 1992. It is now known as I think the 27th amendment.
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:22 PM
A few things.
How is destroying a corrupt establishment not constructive governance?
Second, the cretins could not help but link Palin to Bush, could they?
Third, she would be expected to be engaged in national issue only as much as would any Governor not part of a political organization. Why should it be more?
Lastly, to paraphrase someone, “The NY Times is a ass”
drjohn on September 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Hog Wild on September 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Damiano on September 16, 2008 at 11:20 PM
I saw that and just thought WOW. McCain should use that. It fits so well with the bitter clinging statement. Palin should say that the Americian people she knows are the greatest people not basically decent.
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM
well I goofed that ^^ up….
Hog Wild on September 16, 2008 at 11:25 PM
LOL, you seem to know the admendments better than I do. I am of course, refering to the active one.
allrsn on September 16, 2008 at 11:26 PM
And I am sad to say that her primary instinct seems to be the same as Al Gore’s primary instinct – to be a serial exaggerator.
KentAllard on September 16, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Just replace “Palin” with “Obama” and “she/her” with “he/his” and you can recycle these to attack Obama. The Left just doesn’t the fact that criticizing Palin simply energizes and solidifies the Conservative base more and more.
Keep it up Lefty, I look forward to gloating in November. And I’m talking about a serious elementary school playground vindictive i hope you rot in hell type of gloating. I’ll have plenty of time to be a polite winner, but when McCain wins the Whitehouse I am going to live it up and rub every KOSian nutbag’s nose in it over and over and over again. Then I will laugh a devilish laugh, dance around like an idiot and do it all over again.
cannonball on September 16, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Did I mention that I plan on gloating? >;-)
cannonball on September 16, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Women, who silently balance career and family are going to be howling mad if this keeps up
Sarah P – is an American that we are PROUD of
I think thats the msg the main streamers have missed
I have three sisters and three daughters – my oldest in the grandest of all old time male institutions
Guess where my sympathies lay
Did anyone ask what is the difference between an fundamentalist Inman and an Elitist Pundit was?
Not much these days
EricPWJohnson on September 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM
I would like to modify that slightly to add: Intelligent and free thinking.
allrsn on September 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Obama has patterns. One is not doing a damned thing to break from his party. He has a pattern of lying about his accomplishments. He has a pattern of changing positions daily. He has a pattern of using Fannie Mae chairmen for advice. He has a pattern of being in the company of sleazy individuals.
And no one in the media notices.
drjohn on September 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM
And no one in the media notices.
drjohn on September 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Oh, they notice. They don’t care.
Bishop on September 16, 2008 at 11:33 PM
would like to modify that slightly to add: Intelligent and free thinking.
allrsn on September 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM
sounds good. Couldn’t think of anything right off the top of my head but hardworking, compassionate, etc come to mind. something like As I tour the country I am constantly humbled by the americian people. The people I have met are the most hardworking, compassionate, intelligent, free thinking people, they are so much better than what my opponent thinks of them as “basically decent”
Or something like that…
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Luther? Jeanne d’Arc?
Peasants. Rubes.
/Brooks
thirtypundit on September 16, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Well,SarahCuda has been tested,Cuda has a Mayor
in one holster,and a Governor in the other holster,
a side arm holster,in case your wondering what kind
of holster,and Sarah is ready to run and gun,politicaly
speaking!!!haha.
And,if you look at Obama’s experience,right at
the top of his resume’he has “Community Organizer”
and Senate position,where its not Yay,or Nay,but
present!
At the rate things are going,the MSM and Liberals
after election night,will have there very own,
Long Nights of the Liberal Lemmings Leaping off
their Liberal Lair’s as they lose another lying
election,a hem!!!
canopfor on September 16, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Oh, they notice. They don’t care.
Bishop on September 16, 2008 at 11:33 PM
They don’t care because they think the party is right and that breaking with the party would not be comprmise but would be surrender and wrong. Thus McCain is good when he breaks with his party Obama is bad when he does it. See to the MSM the rep are stupid thus what would be good going to their level?
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:37 PM
“She is not one of us” is the highest compliment that they could have said about Sarah
William Amos on September 16, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Term limits can be a tool to help bond politicians with their citizens, by making sure that they don’t spend too much time away from each other.
But to ensure that politicians are actually putting the people’s interests ahead of their own, I’d suggest something stronger. Have ‘em all annually roll a pair of dice, and shoot any of ‘em that roll boxcars.
With only a 1-in-36 chance of being KIA, it wouldn’t be an overwhelming change — but it would keep minds focused on the serious duty before them…..and eliminate those who would serve for purely egotistical reasons.
cthulhu on September 16, 2008 at 11:38 PM
I take heart in the fact that McCain holds a grudge. He will remember those in the press who claimed to be friendly towards him who turned out just to be using him. The next four years have the potential to be fun. Charlene Gibson should be afraid….very afraid.
bill30097 on September 16, 2008 at 11:39 PM
as an aside the house passed their fake drilling bill. Along party lines mostly. So if the Senate gang of 20 passes their compromise offshore drilling will be locked away fro ever and the issue will be off the table come nov. Are our leaders brain dead? stupid? or just wimps? Palin needs to come out on this bill post haste and box McCain in a corner so he is not even tempted to support this bill.
Dole as already lost my vote. I hope Mcain doesn’t lose mine also over this. i am damn tired of paying $4.00/gal and I am not as stupid as our leaders think I am.
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:41 PM
The contrast could not be clearer.
Obama has consistently and repeatedly talked down to the American people like we are a bunch of incompetent idiots who can’t possibly think for ourselves or manage our own lives. It never fails. Every time he speaks off a teleprompter (and even often when he uses it), his core belief is that he feels that he is the only person who “get’s it”. Go ahead. Got to his site and look at any speech he’s made. I defy anyone to refute this central point.
McCain repeatedly and consistently speaks about giving the American people our lives back. His faith and confidence in the American people is deep and apparent.
McCain’s choice of Palin personifies that belief and confidence, since she embodies who American people are or aspire to be.
The Democratic response to Palin- same message- well, she’s only from small insignificant nothing of a place that is barely a state. She can’t possibly know anything because she’s not part of the “in” crowd. So what if she’s a Governor and has accomplished more than the entire federal government in 2 years. That only happened because she’s too naive to understand how things are supposed to work.
The conventions and hoopla only further illustrate this point. The Democrats are putting on an elaborate show to try and dupe the stupid American public with image over substance.
And now you have the Democratic energy bill that just passed. A completely worthless piece of legislation that only serves to punish companies that provide the means for this country to function while promoting an delusional pipe dream without a substantive plan.
I am disgusted by the Democratic Party. What scares me is that considering the support Obama gets, they appear to be half right in their assessment of the limited intelligence of this nation.
Damiano on September 16, 2008 at 11:41 PM
It’s bad enough for you, redrock, to use the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a vane way. But to mention it in the same breath with a vugarity such as “shit” really chaps my hide in a royal way…. I am extremely offended.
However, I pray for you, because I care, and say to God, “Father, forgive redrock, for he does not know what he does…” May God bless you, redrock, and open your eyes.
CynicalOptimist on September 16, 2008 at 11:43 PM
You know the elites are in trouble when they start looking towards the founding fathers. Doesn’t Brooks know that none of our founding fathers had any experience in putting together a Republic.
You see no Republic such as ours had ever even been dreamed of before. However, with faith in their God, and the courage to make the decisions, and the greater courage to admit their mistakes (remember the Confederation?), and the naiveness of never having been there before they did it.
Sorry Mr. Brooks outside of the fact she is a woman the founding fathers would have been squarely on the side of Sarah Palin.
Jdripper on September 16, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Damiano on September 16, 2008 at 11:41 PM
hopefully the senate will shoot it down. If not there is always the president veto
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:45 PM
I’ll give you several Defining Moments:
This week, McCain is ‘comfortably ahead’ in Florida and ahead in Ohio, even with Obama in Penna and Virginia, and even in Nevada and Colorado
Next week, he’ll be ‘comfortably ahead’ in Ohio, and widening a lead in Penna and Va, also ahead in Nev and Colorado , and even in Michigan
The week after that, McCain will be maintaining his lead in Penna and Virginia as well as Colorado and Nevada, slightly ahead in Michigan, and drawing even in Minnesota. New Jersey and Wisconsin and Washington will be close–very close
By then–the first Week of October–Obama and the Kos Kids will be wetting themselves and spewing out more hate and bile than any of you ever thought possible. It will be Beyond Ugly, and far into a new territory of crazy-ugly Politics of Race & Class & Everything Else
Media scum will be actually yelling at us on camera; we will be called all the usual names, and we will be threatened with violence
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet…………
Janos Hunyadi on September 16, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Suggestion to McCain:
Get Sarah Palin attacking Pelosi for the sham oil drilling bill that will lead to zero oil. I’d be sure to discuss it on Hannity, on campaign stops, the town hall with McCain.
Future quote of the day from Palin: “How stupid does the Democratic House, led by Speaker Pelosi, think we are? You want energy independence, put McCain in the White House.”
Do it! Run against Reid/Pelosi.
Sapwolf on September 16, 2008 at 11:46 PM
CynicalOptimist on September 16, 2008 at 11:43 PM
I agreed.. He was out of line. At least he didn’t compare Obama to the son of god. Like most dems have been doing over the last 2 weeks.
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:47 PM
SaintOlaf in another guise?
semloh on September 16, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Sapwolf on September 16, 2008 at 11:46 PM
From your fingers hopefully to the McCain campaign ears. run against Congress. Obama is part of the problem. etc etc
unseen on September 16, 2008 at 11:50 PM
If the Left keeps up with the assine picture,
of their version of Governor Sarah Palin,aka
SarahHemiBaraCuda,their will be legions as
far as the eyes can see of ‘Can Do’,'Git er
Done’ snowmachine,hockey stick wielding,
Pit Bull,Lipstick wearing,Republican,Indepedant
Woman voters taking back America,and restoring
‘Lady Liberty’s'Honour!!!
Me Thinks,
Me Hopes!!!!:)
canopfor on September 16, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Anyone conservative who’s read this won’t be a Brooks fan anymore.
By the way… Palin scares all the girlie men.
T J Green on September 16, 2008 at 11:51 PM
It’s what did Kerry in and it will be Obama’s undoing as well.
Connie on September 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM
The level of palinmania in me has diminished. I’m pretty much back to a realistic view. I still support her but I’m not crazy about it.
justinok on September 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Hah!
My wife, upon seeing and hearing David Brooks for the first time said, “ick! he’s just a whiny, little boy of a man. People take him seriously? Maybe effeminate men, but definitely not women!”
My wife rarely says anything derogatory about people.
Saltysam on September 16, 2008 at 11:59 PM
Now that is some world class spin. I salute you.
ronsfi on September 17, 2008 at 12:01 AM
I’m not crazy about it.
justinok on Sept 16,2008 at 11:56PM.
justinok: Crazy is,what Crazy does!haha:)
canopfor on September 17, 2008 at 12:04 AM
No government on earth is going to willingly change the system that put it into power. That’s like kicking the ladder out while you’re standing on it.
Both Palin and McCain must take a one term pledge in order to truly clean house. If they intend to stay in power past that first term, the system that supports them will take over, regardless of intent, of good instincts, and of heroic populist tendencies.
If they get in office and make such a pledge during the Inaugural, I will believe everything they have ever said, and ever will say, without reservation. Otherwise they are either dreamy-eyed fools or just politicians.
trailboss on September 17, 2008 at 12:05 AM
trailboss on September 17, 2008 at 12:05 AM
your right. nothing like making yourself lame ducks from the get go to get the establishment to start quaking in their boots. That would be akin to giving a firm pullout date in Iraq. stupid.
unseen on September 17, 2008 at 12:07 AM
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