Governor Sarah Palin is being described as a cancer on the GOP. David Brooks, a staunch GOP supporter, says she is a "fatal cancer" in a recent interview. The Palin-effect is being blamed for Sen. Barack Obama's new lead in the polls. Well thank God that people finally woke up and realized just what was at stake. McCain is not exactly young - he's the oldest presidential candidate ever - and Sarah Palin has essentially no foreign experience. I can't imagine what it must be like living in the US right now - poor economy, an unjust war, $25 million raised to oppose same-sex marriage - but I am very glad that there is distaste for this woman. It is obsurd that she was nominated...and I'm just happy that she is single-handedly ruining McCain's campaign.
Says Brooks...
[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But he didn't think those were the only two options. He thought it was important to have people on the conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning. And his whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices.
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