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David Brooks: Its Palin spasm over, GOP is a responsible party again
The Fresno Bee ^ | November 9, 2014 | David Brooks, New York Times columnist

Posted on 11/09/2014 9:42:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Every party in opposition goes a little crazy. For Republicans in the early Obama era, insanity took the form of the Sarah Palin spasm. Veteran politicos took the former Alaska governor seriously as a national figure. Republican primary voters nominated the likes of Todd Akin, Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle. Glenn Beck seemed important enough to hold a big rally at the Lincoln Memorial.

Fortunately, serious parties eventually pull back from the fever swamps. That’s what’s happening to the Republican Party. It has re-established itself as the nation’s dominant governing party. Republicans now control 69 of 99 state legislative bodies. Republicans hold 31 governorships to Democrats’ 18.

When the next Congress convenes in January, Republicans will have their largest majority in the House of Representatives since 1931; they will have a majority in the Senate, dominate gubernatorial power in the Midwest, and have more legislative power nationwide than anytime over the past century.

Republicans didn’t establish this dominant position because they are unrepresentative outsiders. They did it because they have deep roots in four of the dominant institutions of American society: the business community, the military, the church and civic organizations....

(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2014; assclown; davidbrooks; elections; getpalin; glennbeck; gop; lovethatcrease; nytimesconservative; palin; palinderangement; pds; republicans; sarahpalin; states; talkradio; uniparty
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

David Brooks, the original Pajama Boi!


41 posted on 11/10/2014 4:11:46 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hmmmm, did it ever occur to this simpleton that we now have these majorities DUE to Sarah Palin?

What a maroon!

42 posted on 11/10/2014 4:13:55 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where guns and God have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These articles are akin to Eve writing on schizophrenia in others...


43 posted on 11/10/2014 4:19:51 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Spasm? And he’s not talking about his jock-sniffing of Obama’s pants?


44 posted on 11/10/2014 4:52:14 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Salman

I certainly hope so. Sarah, we need you!


45 posted on 11/10/2014 5:08:28 AM PST by Bigg Red (Too many productive Americans are POWs in the War on Poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; Abbeville Conservative; abigailsmybaby; afnamvet; alley cat; antceecee; ...
Bookmark Ping to Sarah's American List!

David Brooks, Leader of the Socialist Unity Party of East America.

AKA: The Uniparty! >:(


46 posted on 11/10/2014 5:13:18 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I decided some time back to just ignore ninnies like Our Miss Brooks.


47 posted on 11/10/2014 5:14:14 AM PST by Bigg Red (Too many productive Americans are POWs in the War on Poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One other name blows this drivel to bits: Ted Cruz.


48 posted on 11/10/2014 5:15:00 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Yeah, how many of Palin's endorsed candidates won, and how many Hillary-endorsed candidates won?

The GOP-E is doing a lot of wishful thinking this week.

49 posted on 11/10/2014 5:16:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: KC_Lion

I heard SP say the other day that her skin has grown exceedingly thick against the naysayers.

Of course, I don’t know what the future holds for her, and if you did, you wouldn’t tell me out of loyalty to her. But I think that either way it goes...written off as dead but still alive, or constantly harangued in the press...she’ll be ready. Regardless the pundits’ opinions.


50 posted on 11/10/2014 5:18:38 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: KC_Lion

David Brooks, New York Times columnist

51 posted on 11/10/2014 5:24:09 AM PST by McGruff (The whole Omama Administration is a breach in protocol)
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To: trebb
These articles are akin to Eve writing on schizophrenia in others...

Oh, THAT Eve.

(Where's my coffee cup...?)
52 posted on 11/10/2014 5:26:19 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh no. Sarah is good for years of “spasms”, rages, rants, rashes, drooling and nervous ticks for the Left.

They can’t help it..she’s now part of their chromosomal makeup. Not only is she in their heads...she’s in their genes.


53 posted on 11/10/2014 5:45:08 AM PST by moovova
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He - and idiots like him - desperately want to believe that.


54 posted on 11/10/2014 5:49:41 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

And why did she endorse a Democrat in Alaska?


55 posted on 11/10/2014 6:10:12 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: KC_Lion

He is so clueless. She HELPED us win!


56 posted on 11/10/2014 6:10:21 AM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hate spin doctors with their “narratives” and “optics”.


57 posted on 11/10/2014 6:13:45 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brooks is fracking delusional, as usual.


58 posted on 11/10/2014 6:36:36 AM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: nathanbedford
We need to coin a phrase:

"Uncle David" - like the Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous tome. Brooks is a step-n-fetchit for the Uniparty elite in Thievington, District of Corruption.

Uncle David's Column; or, Life Among the Elite: The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery by elitist dolts while also asserting that Sarah Palin's leadership can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

59 posted on 11/10/2014 7:06:46 AM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: kiryandil
LOL


60 posted on 11/10/2014 7:11:16 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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