David Brooks Quoting Encore

And Paul Krugman is working out a pretty entertaining stand-up routine today…if you go for dry economist humor, that is! http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/to-do-not-to-do/Good news is that it looks like the Republicans have opted to cheat and copy the nerdy Democrat kids’ term papers. I’m fine with that. Take all the credit you want. Just let me keep my house.

It’s his penance for his incessant cheer-leading of the Bush Administration. That, or he just follows political winds and really has no independent thought.

One has to wonder what the real true conservatives out there are thinking. I don’t mean the lunatic fringe, I mean the real conseratives who were part of the republican party before it was hijacked by the religous-right.My bet is they stay home and don’t even vote. I also bet a lot of poll numbers for McPalin more than likely include people who aren’t actually going to vote.

The old guard Conservatives have seen that they need to adapt or die. If they want to remain relevant they need to accept the realities that are apparent, and harmonize them with their base principles. I predict they will be willing to reject a few of the basic tenants of conservativism in the wake of all this. They really have no choice.I would actually like to have a “fair and balanced” dialog with conservatives to find a common middle ground upon which to base our future. I think this is an opportunity to forge a new governing paradigm. Counting the hours until this one is out the door!!

McCain’s losing–what does the BBQ media do? Cue Ralph Nader. Unbelievable. I bet he gets more airtime than Ron Paul and Bob Barr combined in this last month.

I swear, the SECOND it’s announced that McCain has called Obama to concede, I’m shooting off some major illegal fireworks. (everything in North Carolina is illegal except snakes and sparklers. I’d swear we’re South Park, circa 2000.)

An Obama win will be Palin’s Waterloo–I think she will be remembered as an utterly unqualified vicious and nasty joke–and the chickens will come home to roost on all her “family values” lies–and TROOPERGATE. She is a FRAUD, and a nasty one at that.

Has Mika Bryzinski been living on Mars? “Obama won by default.” Huh? Ooh, more Palin cheerleading–

She is quite something–makes Stretch’s BBQ sauce seem mild…

I know this isn’t the right thread, but there’s no right thread for my question. Is it just me, or is anyone else completely creeped the fuck out by Cindy McCain? There’s a picture of her on HuffPo right now that looks like a cross between Ann-Margret in the TV scene in “Tommy” and The Grinch.

What Cindy McCain said was disgusting, and she knows it–by her idiotic standard her husband voted against her son as well–and what about McCain’s record on Veteran’s affairs or the GI Bill?To bad our media has created an environment where they can get away with this.

Yes, Brooks is frustrating. He seems like a well-meaning chap rather than a Republican hack – you know, the type who just defends whatever the current right-wing policymakers dictate. But the trouble with moderate writers like Brooks is that, wittingly or otherwise, they end up covering for the vicious excesses of the wingnuts to their right. There simply is no rational defense of a great deal that Bush has done since 2001: none. Characterizing his actions in moderate, reasonable-sounding language is harmful because it keeps many people from realizing the true nature of what’s been done and just how dangerous it is as a constitutional precedent.So if Brooks is willing to speak out strongly about the baseness of the “Palin Wing” of the Republican Party, I’m delighted to hear it. Anyone who has seen the clips of Palin stirring up those howling zombies at her rallies should have no doubts about her true nature. The more responsible people in the GOP should send her packing back to Alaska, where she can stay on the lookout for Vlad Putin and the Russian land mass all she wants.