David Brooks, the very conservative writer and pundit for the NY Times, spoke frankly about the presidential and vice presidential candidates Monday afternoon, calling Sarah Palin "a fatal cancer to the Republican party" in an interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.
Woah! A FATAL CANCER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!
Furthermore, Brooks adds: "Palin is absolutely not ready to be president or vice president. It is important to have people on the conservative side who celebrate ideas, who celebrate learning. 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."
Go David! But he doesn't stop there. He goes on to profusely praise Barack Obama!
Check this out:
"Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and the thing that separates Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic. A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, 'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.' And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all have these stories to tell about his capacity for social perception."
Tell it like it is, Mr. Brooks! Quite refreshing the truth is, huh?
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