What does is it say about John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin when David freaking Brooks of all people is saying this kind of stuff about her? Wow.

[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to a Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at a National Review for Bill Buckley. & Buckley famously said he’d raar be ruled by a first 2,000 names in a Boston phone book than by a Harvard faculty. But he didn’t think those were a only two options. He thought it was important to have people on a conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning. & his whole life was based on that, & that was also true for a lot of a oar conservatives in a Reagan era. Reagan had an immense faith in a power of ideas. But are has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. & I’m afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices.

(h/t HuffPo)

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