David Brooks: Palin is a joke

[question everything]

Said this on the Stephanopoulos show on ABC this morning. And George Will was predicting how she will sink once the Iowa Caucuses come around.

No one there was giving her any credibility or any chances of getting the nomination. Someone - don't remember who - said that if the Pugs want a populist, they have Huckabee.

Only Gwen Ifil was saying that for many women she resonates. That Palin at some point even used the term "glass ceiling."

It could be that some women may empathize with the way she was treated by the McCain campaign, but I think that these days, if any woman has to wonder about descending to the door mat status, the Stupak-Pitts Amendment is the reason, not Palin.

And... on the local paper, the political cartoon shows Pawlenty with a bracelet WWSS - What Would Sarah Say...

[grantcart]

1. The non evangelical Republicans are scared too death that she will be the nominee

50 state loss and they know it

[ingac70]

She would win down here in the South....

lets not kid ourselves. But she definitely would not win the Presidency.

[grantcart]

13. When she is better known she will lose tremendous support with

everyone who does not seem to share her religious views.


National Security Republicans would not support her, and many people in the military who almost never vote Democrat would not vote for her because they do not want to disrespect the military by having a complete idiot as commander in chief and deciding issues of war and peace.

I highly doubt that she would take Florida, North Carolina or even Georgia.


Ironically even some of the fundamental ideologues who share her far right political and religious views are not inclined to support a woman for high office.


She wouldn't take any state in the far West except Idaho and Utah and those might be doubtful based on her inability to even tell the truth in small matters.

[paparush]

36. I agree that she'd poll well in the south which just baffles me?

How do Southerners connect to a nasally, Yankee, hockey mom, moose hunter?

As a lifelong Southerner I just don't get it.

Ok, coming from the extreme radical religious right perspective, I get it.

[question everything]

5. And this is why moderates, like Will and Brooks -

they are moderate compared to Limpdick and Beck - are sounding the alarm.

[66 dmhlt]

28. But that "She's a Joke" comment pissed Sarah off so much ...

She has banned the Republican Party from ever again shopping for her at David and his brother's place.

[Tiggeroshii]

11. that would be cool

i think the repugs are due for a pretty major loss as of yet. Given the 84 and 72 elections that were pretty humiliating for the Dems, they're time's coming for something similar or worse. It'll be nice to see Palin do the deed.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

16. SHE IS A SIDE SHOW AND HAS NO REALITY BASE

[grantcart]

17. Much of politics has become a side show

In the Republican Party she will become a major fund raiser.


BTW this is what Ronald Reagan did for 10 years before he was Governor - went to hundreds of small cities and raised huge amounts of money for local Republicans.

She will be able to go to lots of traditional Republican areas and at a time when they have no other stars, she will bring in thousands of people willing to pay a hundred dollars a seat to have their pictures taken with them.

This will give her a huge base.

I happen to think that she doesn't want to run for office, the one that should be really concerned is Rush Limbaugh. She knows that he has a much easier and more profitable job than actually running for office.

[ieoeja]

37. And the simple phrase, "President Ronald Reagan" was enough to get people laughing for years.

Then the voters in the United States proved to be more stupid than anyone thought possible.

I bet Palin will be president by 2021.

[saltpoint]

24. Agee. Palin would represent an electoral disaster not only for the

Republican bid to unseat President Obama but for Republicans up and down the ballot in all 50 states.

Palin could not even manage a softball interview with Couric but aspires to the presidency. It just doesn't look as if it's likely to happen.

If Iowa Republicans reject her in their caucus I more than half expect Palin to "go rogue" with a third party effort.

Her role in History may be to destroy the Republican Party one way or ther other.

[Unvanguard]

2. No. NO! Praise her, love her, support her all the way. I want Obama to sweep in 2012. n/t

[Warpy]

3. She's around to make Huckabible sound sane

It's the same reason nutcases like Bachmann are getting lots of airplay.

[Cha]

4. "Populist"? In republicon speak that

means who can lie the best and still not be a dumb ass about it.

As for Gwen Ifill and her "for many women she resonates" comment.. I have to ask, "and, what kind of women are those, Gwen?"

The kind that don't know shit from shinola?

[grantcart]

6. The women that want Obama to win a 50 state sweep

[Alcibiades]

7. Lie down with dogs

Funny, the Republican establishment was perfectly happy with courting the vote of uneducated, uncultured, white, mainly rural, religious voters. Until such time, apparently, as they begin putting their own up as candidates.

Palin is she's far smarter and more articulate than the people to whom she appeals as a candidate: homelander America. If Palin is a joke, then the people who she represents must also be a joke, but the Republican establishment, in their faux populist mode, will never admit that.

[Hekate]

19. The Repub elites created the monster that is their base --now they have to deal with it

And I hope the downfall is definitive and hard. I will dance my Schadenfreude Dance till dawn if that happens.

Hekate

[patrice]

8. She's bait. Her function is to help the Repugs hold onto their extreme Fundie base and then they

will Switch at the last minute to a more moderate candidate.

[the blues]

9. I fear you may be right about that.

[patrice]

12. Yeah, they can always blame the necessity for the switch on us.

"Those mean Democrats ridiculed her so much and so often that Un-decideds and Independents turned away from her."

[the blues]

41. I'm tellin' ya, you're scaring me!

:scared:

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Palin does not resonate with any women that I know. They think of her

as an ignorant opportunist who uses her femininity to her advantage when it suits her, and then claims she is being victimized for it when THAT suits her.

[saltpoint]

23. That is one of the most succinct and right-on assessments of Palin

I've ever seen.

+1.

[lib_wit_it]

39. Smart friends. One of the most depressing realizations I've had in the last few years is that there

is a huge group of American women who not just support but *adore* Sarah Palin. All of my friends, both male and female, are repulsed by every winky/bitchy/snarky/whiney/fundy/phony thing about her. But my sister-in-law thinks Sarah is wonderful. She says, to every bad thing I've pointed out about Palin, that "all politicians" do that." Yeah right.

[notesdev]

14. If she's such a joke

how come I can't peruse DU without getting dozens of Palin posts polluting the articles list?

I've been staying off these threads in the hopes that she would just go away, but it seems like DUers are her press agents, giving her exposure at every opportunity.

I thought she was full of nonsense, but the reaction to her by others is telling me there may be more to it here. Why the obsession with a person who is essentially nothing more than just another GOP talking head?

[question everything]

18. This Week dedicated half of its "debate" to her

and, no doubt, the MSM will report sales of her book, her book tour, etc. So if this is news - whether we like it or not - it has room on DU.

[ginnyinWI]

15. That gang on This Week is pretty clueless.

I listen the the replay on radio (XM) and believe me they all sound like a bunch of dunces. I wonder what their track record is on other people they have pontificated about. It's probably no better than tossing a coin.

Brooks never knows what the score is. George Will, rarely. Snuffy has nothing to add, Cokie is a joke. I no longer waste time actually watching the show, but if I'm in the kitchen I'll listen to whatever replay is on POTUS.

These guys, these Washington insiders, simply don't know anything relevant to the real world.

Their opinion of Palin is about as valid as mine, or yours is. Not worth worrying about.

[jaysunb]

20. Sarah Palin is a stalking horse for

Huckabee.

She doesn't know it, but, the Big Boys have developed their own plan.

Sorry Sarah. :evilgrin:

[Golden Raisin]

21. She is no joke.

She is not funny. She is dangerous (as are her supporters) and not to be discounted. particularly with the support of the corporate, whore media of today. I am amazed she has come as far as she already has (a governorship and a Vice Presidential candidacy).

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Agreed. Matter of fact I think we should STOP calling her a joke.

It only encourages her.

[Orsino]

29. She's a symptom, not the disease.

Brooks' turning on her signals his willingness to admit that she's a zero.

We should hope that the GOP takes no notice of him, and tries to run her.

[saltpoint]

22. Her GOP rivals likely feel she can be defeated in Iowa and New Hampshire,

but many of them will not publicly use Brooks' description despite agreeing with him in private because if Palin draws the nutbags to the party she can also leave town with them were she to "go rogue" in a third party effort.

That would destroy Huckabee or Romney or any other Republican ticket and ensure Obama's re-election.

I agree with Hekate upthread: Sarah Palin is another monster the Republican Party has created in its own labs, one with the potential to turn against them.

[saltpoint]

25. Brooks is trashing Palin in part because if her star rises his job

of defending the GOP becomes exponentially more difficult.

[Ganja Ninja]

27. All this joke talk by the traditional (Bush/Cheney) Republicans is wishful

thinking. They're praying she'll lose and her crazy followers will fall back in line and be good republicans.

[depakid]

30. If Palin succeeds in reducing Brooks and Will to the irrelevacy that they deserve,

Well then, color me a Palin supporter. At least for the time being.

[Doctor_J]

The corporate (Brooks's) wing of the GOP doesn't like her that much

It will be interesting to watch who wins between them and the fundie gun nuts.

[DU GrovelBot]

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32. He also called her a "fatal cancer" to the GOP

Nice to see he's being consistent (for once)

http://barefootandprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/10/david-brooks-palin-is-fatal-cancer-to.html

[LatteLibertine]

33. Unfortunately

I'm sure Palin could win parts of the South, particularly if placed against a candidate who is perceived as black.

No, I don't think she could win the Presidency.

[Quantess]

34. David Brooks is maintaining his credibility here.

Remember when Rich Lowry alluded to masturbating to Sarah Palin at the Presidential Debates? (Well, he probably waited until he was in the prvacy of his own home, but still.) Rich Lowry deservedly lost a lot of credibility over that editorial.

[madamesilverspurs]

35. However cartoonish she might be,

she is presently one of the devices by which the far right measures the gullibility of both the masses and the media.

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[Phx_Dem]

38. To Brooks: NO SHIT SHERLOCK.

But thanks for acknowledging the truth about that blithering idiot.

[Politicub]

40. She takes no responsibility for anything

which makes her the perfect republican.

I'll be so glad when this book BS is done. She grates on me.