Well lets add another conservative in the no-barbie book.   This myth that Barbie has a clue is not even working with die heart conservatives.  How does McCain think it will work with the rest of the world? more about "David Brooks and Jeffrey Goldberg, At...", posted with vodpod

Video is now out of conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks saying Palin is a fatal cancer to the Republican party. Brooks: Brooks praised Palin's natural political talent, but said she is "absolutely not" ready to be president or vice president. He explained, "The more I follow politicians, the more I think experience matters, the ability to have a template of things in your mind that you can refer to on the spot, because believe me, once in office there's no time to think or make decisions." represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But he didn't think those were the only two options. He thought it was important to have people on the conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning. And his whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. 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.

This is pretty stone-cold of David Brooks. He's not letting up on any punches, here, he thinks Sarah Palin is a "Cancer" on Republican politics. I'd say she's a pimple on the ass of American discourse, but that's just me.

Well lets add another conservative in the no-barbie book. This myth that Barbie has a clue is not even working with the die heart conservatives. How does McCain think it will work with the rest of the world?

Speaking at an Atlantic luncheon Monday, New York Times columnist David Brooks said Gov. Sarah Palin “represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party” because of her tendency to “scorn ideas entirely,” comparing her to President Bush:

[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. . … Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. 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.