In his recent conversation with a writer for The Atlantic, which has recently been reworked for the Internet age, prominent conservative David Brooks called Sarah Palin "a fatal cancer" on the Republican Party.
That's making a statement. Heck, that's just one step above calling her the Devil.
If Sarah Palin is the GOP's next candidate for the White House, don't expect an endorsement from the New Yorker David Brooks. He just wants her to go back to her redneck ways in Alaska and leave the rest of us civilized people alone.
But here's the kicker. In his interview, Brooks went on to speak admiringly of Joe Biden's big mouth, his ability to speak truth to power, and to check Obama's potential excesses. And he predicted that Obama would win the election by a nine percentage point margin.
Why is this significant? Not just because that means it's a landslide.
Because of l980.
Could Obama's victory be for the Democratic Party what Ronald Reagan's was for the Republicans?
That's what Brooks is hinting, using obscure facts. He knows that Obama admires what Ronald Reagan did in l980, the way he changed the country.He knows Obama wants a landslide; obliquely, the candidate has hinted at the need for a "transformation" of our nation's politics.
Could this be a conservative's oblique half-secret endorsement of the Democratic ticket?
Kit Stolz 