Tepid praise from David Brooks.. I wonder if Kathleen Parker will be next?
Your repoeated inapproprate mouthing of the term "reform" in last night's debate will never convince anybody with a pulse that you are a reformer or that your running mate is a "maverick".
Hey Mr. Brooks, eat moose and die!
Can’t believe this is from the Slimes.
This Republican was standing and cheering on the couch at Palin’s entrance and never got down.
Show of hands for those of us who were “crouching nervously behind our sofas” and so on??? I am so tired of this nonsense.
How did the misconception that brooks was somehow a “conservative” get started?
Even if he is on the left cusp of conservatism, then like George Will and a few others, he’s a conservative elite.
I wonder if Kathleen Parker is still clutching to her hope that McCainw will dump Sarah and replace her on the ticket with Mitt Romney?
Only in the Fantasyland of the conservative elites...
Can we switch McCain out for Jindal?
Those sections of the interview were edited out by CBS. Duh.
If the mainstream media want to know how to deal with Palin from here on, it needs to look back at the lessons learned from the whooping Ronald Reagan put on them in the ‘80’s. Yes, Sarah Palin was that good last night!
I got the feeling last night that Joe Biden genuinely admires and holds Sarah Palin in much higher regard than he does Obama. He won’t admit it, but I think I’m right on this.
Yeah, like Reagan /s.
The problem with Ferraro and Mondale and Gore and Kerry and Hillary was they were shrill, disrespectful of other's views and incapable of not taking themselves too seriously. Noticed I left out Slick.
And the fraud that replaced Buckley weighs in.
Don’t you at least have to take one conservative position to even be referenced as a conservative even at the NYT. Apparently not, because I don’t remember Brooks ever having done so.
Noonan already fell all over herself in beaming last night.
Oh Kathleen....your up next to bat.
Really? Brooks is such a wuss. Yo, we read your stupid columns leading up to the debate. We knew you were wrong, and now you do, too. Why not just admit it like a man?
As someone here pointed out, this is a "tepid" column. Tepid, dweebie columns are written by people trying to step around some obvious truth. Such as that Sarah, Middle-American accent and all, overturned the latte cart all over the liberals' laps.
Too much prepping from campaign handlers and PR people prior to the Couric interview, is my guess. By contrast, in the debate we saw Palin being Palin.
I really have to laugh when polls and pundits find the debate was a draw, and give Palin credit for not destroying herself.
The real issue here is that when ‘they’ say that they lean toward or say that Biden won, ——— is that a man of 30+ years Washington experience only ‘drew’ with an outsider with 5 weeks experience!!!
With all his knowledge and experience, he only had a draw with a newbie!!!???
brooks needs to lose his front teeth. He is a smarmy castroti!
LLS
This is about as good a column as we can expect from the Times. You can almost sense the pain emanating from the editorial offices.
What an uninformed and provincial statement to make!
Just goes to show that Brooks and his ilk are so isolated from normal Americans that they cannot comprehend the meaning of the word.
Brooks and much of the media are trapped in their own little time and place, with little contact with the vast real world out here where "normal" is Sarah Palin!
I hope she is keeping a diary on an encrypted thumb drive.
-ccm