"By traditional definitions," he writes, "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured and responsible."


NO WAY they can call themselves 'conservative.'

HI, b'sis!

has been a fraud, moron, or both.

Carson?

Reading Brooks, you'd think this "just happened." Absolutely no betrayal by Brooks of his own complicity in turning conservatives and Republicans into a free-range loony bin. "It was broken when I got here!"

+1,000

Andyou heard from us. You have email at the NYT.

You IDIOT! What is the matter with you? NOW you are acknowledging what we have been saying all along?

You dope and loser. I can imagine Paul Krugman rolling his eyes...

a terminally clueless numbnuts douchebag like Brooks can see it, the Repigs are truly up to their noses in quicksand. May they sink quickly and hopefully quietly into the abyss. And Brooksie is no "Burkean conservative," he's just a smug asshole who's about 1/5 as smart as he thinks he is.

I wonder what Moral Hazard thinks?

And yes, as pointed out above, Brooks and his ilk are largely responsible for the shitstorm-in-a-playpen they now decry so piously.

He's such a genuinely good writer, and his snark is at Dorothy Parker levels of "incredibly nasty but stylistically polite."

Certainly on politics. And his opinions are normally spot on, too.

Best Use of a non-pertinant thought meme in a discussion forum.

... and how many of those were you personally responsible for Mr. Brooks?

... at least a few dozen over the years, I should think ...

Utterly corrupt.

Now he wants to be seen as the reasonable one

to incompetent people.

watch Lawrence O'Donnell's show from last night when he had on former Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, who also happens to be an ordained Episcopal priest. Hard to believe he's (nominally) from the same party as the current crop of loons.

One thing he pointed out was that Ted Cruz and others seem to expect governmental change to happen overnight and kick and scream when it doesn't. Maybe that's because many have come of age in the Reagan era of short attention spans focused solely on this quarter's profits.

Pundits of jaw-dropping stupidity and arrogance.

All are living proof that people who are fundamentally idiots and assholes can know grammar and have large vocabularies, while remaining idiots and assholes.

Where have you gone Tony Lewis?

What a maroon.. He's so friggen surprised.

Ronald Reagan, who put it all in motion.

Connect the dots Dave, or your blathering is useless.

their wagon is on crash path, he puts some distance between himself and responsibility.

Oh no, I see the problem - you haven't read the OP, or followed the link, so you missed the bit about the "New York Times column", and you thought the thread was about David Brock.

It really is worth reading an OP before answering, you know.

Poor Fred.

They are big time effed up.

Let's be practical. Brooks hasn't said anything we didn't already know, but it's helpful that he's saying it. Some people will hear it from him who wouldn't get it if you forced them at gunpoint to spend a week reading DU.

Maybe if he and his conservative establishment friends had not been so busy demonizing anyone or anything perceived as liberal and stopped using racial code words to appeal to this radical mind-set, we wouldn't be in this pickle. Day late. Dollar short, Dave.

Brooks should have seen it coming a long time ago.