David Brooks and Other October Surprises

In “What Sarah knew,” my Oak Park, IL journalist-blogger friend Jim Bowman responds to David Brooks’ (or is it David Brock? Somehow, I keep getting their names confused) effort to sabotage the election for the GOP by trying to destroy Sarah Palin (“Sarah Palin is a cancer on the Republican Party”), who had single-handedly rescued the foundering McCain candidacy. Note that Brooks is supposedly a Republican, and was hired by pistol-packing, anti-Second Amendment, communist New York Times publisher Pinch Sulzberger, because he is supposedly a conservative.

Jim discusses at greater length what the socialist MSM is calling “Troopergate,” the report that an Alaska supporter of Barack Obama/Dunham/Soetoro had commissioned as an October or November Surprise, in order to insinuate that corruption-fighting Gov. Sarah Palin is herself corrupt.

Sarah has done me a big personal favor by smoking out David Brooks et al., “conservative” mainstreamers who can’t stand her. Why a favor? Because it’s given me a whole new reason for dismantling my respect for those hifalutin guys who have been elevated.

She has been the bird dog who flushed the pheasants — my man Krauthammer among them! — so as to relieve us peasants of our misplaced sense of allegiance, though I’m still a K-hammer fan, using the even-Homer-nods system.

1. David Brooks (or is it David Brock?) is a cancer on the Republican Party. He's a Bobo, a "bohemian bourgeois," a phrase he coined to describe others, and which is part of the title of his book, Bobos in Paradise. Like McCain, he has long hated the Republican base, and sought to purge it from the party. Brooks is a latter-day, country club Republican. He supports civil rights and gay marriage (and has even misrepresented the Bible, in defense of the latter), and hates Evangelicals and opposes the Second Amendment (though, presumably, like his boss, Sulzberger) believes in multimillionaires’ privilege to keep and bear arms). This would-be biblical scholar and pseudo-intellectual is a graduate of that OPU (overpriced university) mediocrity mill, the University of Chicago, where he took a class or two with Allan Bloom. With all of that said, given Brooks’ longtime personal loyalty to McCain, you have to wonder why he would turn on him. Did he and McCain have a falling-out? Did Brooks make a separate peace with the Democrats? Did Sulzberger or the Party have something on him, and blackmail him into trashing Palin?;

2. Troopergate: Is this the 2008 election’s October Surprise I, or did I miss a previous one? (Was David Brooks/David Brock October Surprise I?) By the way, I'm sure this was published now because the Democratic operatives at the NYT, WP, etc., felt they had better surprises that they are holding back for later. For instance, they have been holding onto politically incorrect quotes from McCain's (Media-AZ) "straight talk express" since 2000. Since Bush beat McCain in the primaries that year, they didn't need to use the material, but have been sitting on it ever since, waiting for the right opportunity; and

3. The Color Line: Socialists and communists love to bury history under lies, and by reversing the application of historical terms. Witness their 2000 maneuver, in switching the political meaning of the word "red" from socialist/communist to Republican, and now, "troopergate." A reversal of the meaning of "Bimbo eruptions," perhaps targeting Sarah Palin, can't be far off.