David Brooks is impressed by Republicans

[ProSense]

Brooks

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On the other hand, Democrats and their enablers have paid no attention to Republicans like Rob Portman, Dan Coats, John Boozman and Roy Blunt, who are likely to actually get elected. It doesn’t feel good when your opponents are experienced people who simply have different points of view. The existence of these impressive opponents introduces tension into the chi of your self-esteem.

Similarly, the Democrats and their enablers have paid lavish attention to the Tea Party this year. It’s nice to feel more sophisticated than those hordes of Middle Americans, who say silly things like “Get government off my Medicare.”

On the other hand, Democrats have paid little attention to the crucial group in this election — the independent moderates who supported President Obama in 2008 but flocked away during the health care summer of 2009 and now support the GOP by landslide proportions.

Losing friends makes you sad. It is better to not think about why these things happen.

Lesson two. Always remember, many great geniuses were unappreciated in their lifetimes.

Democrats are lagging this year because the country appears incapable of appreciating the grandeur of their accomplishments. That’s because, as several commentators have argued over the past few weeks, many Americans are nearsighted and ill-informed. Or, as President Obama himself noted last week, they get scared, and when Americans get scared they stop listening to facts and reason. They get all these crazy ideas in their heads, like not wanting to re-elect Blanche Lincoln.

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Since Brooks appears infactuated with Blanche Lincoln, wonder why she didn't look "experienced" and "impressive" enough to get re-elected?

[emulatorloo]

1. "Democrats and their enablers" - So being a Democrat is like being a substance abuser?

I can't beleive the amount of snark in this piece. That last paragraph totally twists Obama's words.

[displacedvermoter]

11. You mean Gibbs was right, we need to be drug tested?

[SpiralHawk]

2. "The chi of your self-esteem." - WTF?

Where does Brooks, a bona fide, bent-knee RepubliToady, get this shit. He just makes this crap up. He should stop huffing on the bong in his closet.

"The chi of self-esteem." Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha. WTF?

[JI7]

3. David Brooks IS a Republican

he is more intelligent than most. but all of his articles follow the same pattern. he starts off with criticisms of republicans or anything else that we would agree with and then ends off with "but the Dems also"...............

[FrenchieCat]

4. Personally, I think that David Brooks is impressed with himself.

[necso]

5. When I lived down in the city,

I used to patronize a local corner store (they had cheap 40s of malt liquor).

And one day when I went there, the buffoon behind the counter tried to shortchange me by a dollar, but did so in a completely transparent, obvious, half-assed and incompetent manner. Now, I didn't get him fired; but the next time I went back, two of the regulars were talking and laughing about this clown's sudden and pathetic exit: that particular pitiful fool never managed to pull the wool over anyone's eyes.

Although he did his best.

[playstation]

6. You may need to reread that last paragraph again

[Zoeisright]

7. David Brooks is an asshole.

He's a smarmy, smirking asshole. Consider the source.

[mkultra]

8. "Losing friends makes you sad. It is better to not think about why these things happen. "

that explains a lot about brooks

[WI_DEM]

9. Who cares what that ass thinks?

[Teaser]

10. David Brooks is impressed by paperweights

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