David Books is SO full of shit....

[XemaSab]

:popcorn:

John McCain is not a normal conservative. He has instincts, but few abstract convictions about the proper size of government. He’s a traditionalist, but is not energized by the social conservative agenda. As Rush Limbaugh understands, but the Democrats apparently do not, a McCain administration would not be like a Bush administration.

The main axis in McCain’s worldview is not left-right. It’s public service versus narrow self-interest. Throughout his career, he has been drawn to those crusades that enabled him to launch frontal attacks on the concentrated powers of selfishness — whether it was the big money donors who exploited the loose campaign finance system, the earmark specialists in Congress like Alaska’s Don Young and Ted Stevens, the corrupt Pentagon contractors or Jack Abramoff.

When McCain met Sarah Palin last February, he was meeting the rarest of creatures, an American politician who sees the world as he does. Like McCain, Palin does not seem to have an explicit governing philosophy. Her background is socially conservative, but she has not pushed that as governor of Alaska. She seems to find it easier to work with liberal Democrats than the mandarins in her own party.

Instead, she seems to get up in the morning to root out corruption. McCain was meeting a woman who risked her career taking on the corrupt Republican establishment in her own state, who twice defeated the oil companies, who made mortal enemies of the two people McCain has always held up as the carriers of the pork-barrel disease: Young and Stevens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/opinion/02brooks.html?ref=opinion

[inthebrain]

1. Not to worry

He's gonna look like an ass come 8 PM tonight.

He passed up a lot a news stories to publish this crappy article. He's gonna kick himself in the ass for it.

[im1013]

2. Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[TomClash]

3. Another cowardly neo-con cheerleader

His columns are mostly drivel.

[depakid]

4. Zero credibility

A psuedointellectual who couldn't make it in academia like his mom and dad, he decided to ape George Will and become a partisan hack.

[Enrique]

5. brilliant parody by Brooks

this is Onion material. :toast:

[renie408]

6. What 'career'? n/t

[regnaD kciN]

7. One bit in particular...

When McCain met Sarah Palin last February, he was meeting the rarest of creatures, an American politician who sees the world as he does. Like McCain, Palin does not seem to have an explicit governing philosophy.

"...but, instead, believes in doing whatever it takes to win, no matter who or what you have to sell out in order to do it."

What can I say? I haven't seen so much gushing love for McCain since Lieberman's last speech.

[DemsUnited]

8. He is full of shit BUT it's clear he's turning on Palin and floating replacements.

Last two graphs of article:

He really needs someone to impose a policy structure on his moral intuitions. He needs a very senior person who can organize a vast administration and insist that he tame his lone-pilot tendencies and work through the established corridors — the National Security Council, the Domestic Policy Council. He needs a near-equal who can turn his instincts, which are great, into a doctrine that everybody else can predict and understand.

Rob Portman or Bob Gates wouldn’t have been politically exciting, but they are capable of performing those tasks. Palin, for all her gifts, is not. She underlines McCain’s strength without compensating for his weaknesses. The real second fiddle job is still unfilled.