David Brooks was interviewed by Jeffrey Goldberg today at an Atlantic magainze luncheon in New York. He predicted, according to HuffPo, that Obama is going to win by nine points.
I want to say that I emphatically think it's too early for such talk. I would make no such projections. I do think it's interesting though that one of the country's most important conservative journalist/intellectuals is doing it. And I thought you should know! It may start a drip, drip, drip.
Oh yes, Brooks also said this:
[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.
Yowza.
