Cross-Posted at: Enough is Enough Virginia
David Brooks is certainly no expositor of progressive thought, but it is impossible to question his clarity on many of the issues of our day. He sums up the fundamental problem with Sarah Palin perfectly here. Tell me, does his description of a complete lack of intellectual curiosity remind you of any prominent Virginia Republicans?
[Sarah Palin] 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.
Via HuffPo: