His type of politics will be the death knell of the Republican party. We need a new party. We need a party of true fiscal and social conservatives. These are secularists without a compass, moral or otherwise. They do not understand what is happening to our country. They are oblivious. Unfortunately these left wing republican in name only interlopers get a voice. Sometimes they even sucker in the weak.
David Brooks does not speak for me or any conservative I know of. He speaks for a lukewarm middle of the road republicanism that has no future in this country. They are guppies suckered in by the philosophy that if we are nice the left will like us and might vote for us. That's why we had McCain, he was a classic middle of the road, reach across the Aisle republican. If it were NOT for Sarah Palin he would have been beaten 2-1. I was embarrassed for him the other day when he asked the Helicopter question of Pres Obama. He should resign and retire and let a real conservative take his place. We will never win the hearts and minds of the population being phony conservatives. We learned that in Illinois when Judy Barr Topinka tried to become governor against a flawed incumbent, Blago. No center. No Values.
David Brooks has a philosophical representation of why the Republican Party will fail and a Conservative movement must arise. Or we will never win another election. This is a crime. Mary Matlin was on the Today Show. Here is an interview where she is asked about David Brooks. She nails it:
On Thursday's "Today" show NBC's Meredith Vieira invited on former George W. Bush assistant Mary Matalin to discuss the excessive spending in Barack Obama's budget, and the interview got off to a promising start as Vieira actually asked Matalin, "Do you see it as a disaster in the making?" However the segment quickly turned sour when Vieira cited a critique of Bobby Jindal's post-Obama address response by New York Times columnist David Brooks and claimed: "Conservatives were criticizing him for stale ideas. He didn't say anything, nothing new." Matalin ably defended the Louisiana governor as seen in the following exchange:
MEREDITH VIEIRA: You know, you talk about a united Republican Party, but I want to read to you something that David Brooks said, now he's a conservative columnist. This was after governor Bobby Jindal gave the response to President Obama's speech on Tuesday. Brooks said, "To come up at this moment in history with a stale "Government is the problem. We can't trust the federal government." It's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic right now." And he went on to suggest that the party is out of touch with where this country is and where it is headed. So, you do not agree with what he said?
MARY MATALIN: No, I don't, and I live in Louisiana now, as you know, and Bobby Jindal is an extraordinary public servant. He's the greatest public policy innovator in the country today, and that isn't what he said. That's David Brook's rendition of it. Who, who's a friend. But his, Bobby Jindal has made more progress in Louisiana in the shortest period of time in the history of the state and probably in the country. Education reform and, and ethics reform. Everything that put Louisiana downscale is now one of the top states in the country. What people who are objecting to, about Governor Jindal's presentation was the presentation itself. And you know, demonstrably he was much stronger on "Meet the Press" and much stronger on the "Today" show than he was in front of a teleprompter. I think if you want to take the measure of a man, I'd rather see him be able go up against you than stand in front of a teleprompter.
VIEIRA: But you know Mary it wasn't just that. It was, again conservatives were criticizing him for stale ideas. He didn't say anything, nothing new.
MATALIN: No, these are not stale ideas. These are the essence of the, of fiscal conservatism upon which this country was founded and prospered and he is applying in, in the state of Louisiana. What is an old idea that's never worked in the history of this country or any other is government growing, which does not create wealth. It discourages investment and wealth creation. And the, they call, they're calling those ideas stale, but those are the only ones in the history of this country that have created prosperity. It worked for Kennedy, it worked for Reagan, it worked, it got us out of the last recession, and it's the only thing that's gonna grow this economy again.
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