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1GirlieGirl

(261 posts) Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:25 PM Sep 2012

Oh mah lord...David Brooks speaks up in (sort of) opposition to Rmoney!

"Thurston Howell Romney"

Brooks starts out ok, but the last paragraph ruins it:

"Personally, I think he’s a kind, decent man who says stupid things because he is pretending to be something he is not — some sort of cartoonish government-hater. But it scarcely matters. He’s running a depressingly inept presidential campaign. Mr. Romney, your entitlement reform ideas are essential, but when will the incompetence stop?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120918

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Oh mah lord...David Brooks speaks up in (sort of) opposition to Rmoney! (Original Post) 1GirlieGirl Sep 2012 OP

Brooks has to come around full circle to stay on the reservation vt_native Sep 2012 #1

Typical David Brooks RobertoRoberti Sep 2012 #2

vt_native

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1. Brooks has to come around full circle to stay on the reservation

Reply to 1GirlieGirl (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:36 PM

Sep 2012

Or he'll get the David Frum treatment

RobertoRoberti

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2. Typical David Brooks

Reply to 1GirlieGirl (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:56 PM

Sep 2012

That last paragraph tells you what Romney's real sin is, in Brook's eyes: making the attack on the middle class look bad. After all the hard work Brooks does to make it look good, with his pseudo-intellectual and pseudo-hip trappings.

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