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Palin is a fatal cancer
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"Palin is a fatal cancer to the Republican Party."
This statement was, to my great amazement, was made by David Brooks, the conservative commentator who's mentor was Bill Buckley. Brooks said that Buckley (the founder of The National Review who I heard speak live in Seattle about ten years ago, an amazing speaker) thought it was important to have people on the conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning. Brooks said that Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, personified by Bush and Palin, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. Posted on 10/09/08, 02:10 am |
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As you all know, this has been my biggest complaint against Palin and the recent Republican party, their disdain for the world of ideas. Thoughtful, intelligent people are no longer welcome in the Republican Party. 
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I read this earlier today and thought how right he is about these two. Indeed, Bush punishes anyone who goes against his misguided policies and Palin I'm afraid would be even worse. Imagine for a moment having a mother who believed only in celibacy as a form of birth control. How controlling is that?
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For all of the backflips that McCain has done to appease the fundamentalist base of the Republican party, for all of his basic tenets that he has abandoned, he is still very much a moderate in their eyes.
If Obama wins, look to the Republican Party to veer to the right, far, far, far to the right. This bodes ill for the future of the Republican Party and ultimately our nation. We need several rational and responsible political parties each offering up and fighting over what ideas are best for the governance of our nation.
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I agree with this post.
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Yikes, and things get even worse for moderate Republicans.
William F. Buckley's son is voting for....Obama! I suspect that Bill would have as well at this point. Bill Buckley (founder of the National Review, THE conservative magazine) would have torn McCain a new one for chosing Palin as a running mate. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs... Kathleen Parker, who writes for the National Review, stated in a column that John Cleese as Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious”: namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. I even heard Peggy Noonan dish on Palin. And the intellectuals abandon the Republican Party like the sinking ship that it is...
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Yes - especially now that she's been found to have violated the public trust by abusing the powers of her office by attempting to force Walt Monegan into firing her brother-in-law - and then firing him for not doing so.
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And in one of the best double insults I've ever read, Slate says of Palin:
"She'd never heard of the books that Bush never bothered to read." Classic
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