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GOP doesn't care for smart people (Brooks-R)

mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
edited October 2008 in Strut Central
Interesting column by conservative columnist David Brooks:b,121a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/10brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin" target="_blank"1http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/10brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sloginb,121b,121"The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-to-1 rates. With doctors, it???s 2-to-1. With tech executives, it???s 5-to-1. With investment bankers, it???s 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community."b,121b,121"politically, the G.O.P. is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission ??? because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission ??? by telling members of that class to go away."b,121b,121b,121Speaking of the few presumably educated Republicans left: b,121a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama/" target="_blank"1http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama/

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  • funky16cornersfunky16corners 7,175 Posts
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    b,121Interesting column by conservative columnist David Brooks:
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    b,121"The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-to-1 rates. With doctors, it???s 2-to-1. With tech executives, it???s 5-to-1. With investment bankers, it???s 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community."
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    b,121"politically, the G.O.P. is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission ??? because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission ??? by telling members of that class to go away."
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    b,121Speaking of the few presumably educated Republicans left:
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121It's apparently a matter of priorities. At least they have the insane yahoo vote all wrapped up.
  • keithvanhornkeithvanhorn 3,855 Posts
    brooks forgot to mention that the gop's pitch to middle america is a huge farce. nobody gets hurt worse under a republican administration than the middle class...except for the poor.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    I was genuinely surprised to learn that amongst professionals, there's been such a dramatic swing to the Democratic party.
  • luckluck 4,077 Posts
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    b,121I was genuinely surprised to learn that amongst professionals, there's been such a dramatic swing to the Democratic party.
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121The Brooks piece (and the public speech that precipitated it, in which he likened Sarah Palin to a "cancer" on the traditional GOP ideals) is very interesting to me. Brooks and Christopher Buckley (who has recently endorsed Senator Obama) seem to be leading a re-emergence of the intellectual base of their Republican Party - a welcome resurgence for a party that has invested heavily and cynically among the least-educated and most reactive Americans.b,121b,121It's always interesting to me to see how a demographical shift among Americans is precipitated by intent. The Republicans, in past years, have (effectively) emotionally gerrymandered the country by duncifying their message and cornering the market on Patriotism. As a former Conservative voter, I became angry when the GOP became more interested in hot-button, low-brain issues and turned their back on their core principles of less Government power and a strict adherence to the Constitution. Granted, I'd have shifted my worldview either way - how could I [i]not/i1 have during the last 8 years? - but even as a young child, I never resonated with the nascent Republican assertions that institutions like public schools and public television were tanamount to Socialism. Why should Americans settle for knee-jerk politics and Luddite policies? Why not elect an elite man or woman to the most important office in the free world? Why [i]not/i1 strive to be the best? Why impugn the good names of scientists that save lives and make our world a better place?b,121b,121Here's hoping for a return to a national, intellectual discourse, irrespective of party loyalties.
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
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    b,121William Buckley (who has recently endorsed Senator Obama)
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121uh I'm assuming this endorsement was delivered before Feb of this year?
  • SaracenusSaracenus 671 Posts
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    b,121William Buckley (who has recently endorsed Senator Obama)
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    b,121uh I'm assuming this endorsement was delivered before Feb of this year?
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121Is it safe to assume you already know that it was William's son Christopher that endorsed Obama today and you are just messing with him?b,121b,121For those that don't know, see it here:b,121a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama/" target="_blank"1http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama//a1
  • luckluck 4,077 Posts
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    b,121Is it safe to assume you already know that it was William's son Christopher that endorsed Obama today
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121Force of habit. I've been typing the man's name for years.b,121b,121By the way, I also wrote a couple of paragraphs, sentences, words, and letters around my error. I've corrected the error so people might see the forest instead of the tree.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
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    b,121Is it safe to assume you already know that it was William's son Christopher that endorsed Obama today
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    b,121Force of habit. I've been typing the man's name for years.
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121Whatever dude. You got someone's name wrong. b,121b,121MEGA-FAIL!
  • SaracenusSaracenus 671 Posts
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    b,121Force of habit. I've been typing the man's name for years.
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    b,121Whatever dude. You got someone's name wrong.
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    b,121MEGA-FAIL!
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121And evidently I DOUBLE-FAIL by missing that you already posted the link to the Christopher Buckley article a couple of post up. Sigh.b,121b,121Luck, as for your post. I am less concerned what form the conservative movement takes in the the long term than what the progressive/liberals that are ascending to power do with that power in the short.b,121b,121Basically the left and right are starting to match up their respective echo chambers, blasting out each others ideology and pushing on the "MSM" to report on what they are blathering about. Its not at equilibrium yet, but it is getting closer.b,121b,121Its going to be difficult for either party to have a rational conversation internally, let alone with each other while the likes of Rush and Randy Rhodes screaming. b,121b,121Its going to take some serious under the radar think tanking and reflection followed by a maturation of the partisan media before you are going to see a sane discussion in public.b,121b,121The wildcard is whether Obama will be able to keep the fractious Democrats on target and reach across to the remaining Republicans to address the current economic crisis. If he can establish a steady hand and can get stuff done we might mitigate our coming recession.b,121b,121Beyond that, things are too uncertain to speculate on what will come.
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
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    b,121Interesting column by conservative columnist David Brooks:
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    b,121"The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-to-1 rates. With doctors, it???s 2-to-1. With tech executives, it???s 5-to-1. With investment bankers, it???s 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community."
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    b,121"politically, the G.O.P. is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission ??? because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission ??? by telling members of that class to go away."
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    b,121It's apparently a matter of priorities. At least they have the insane yahoo vote all wrapped up.
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121"KILL HIM!!"b,121b,121Too much talking, not enough punching.
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