David Brooks on Face the Nation Oct. 5, 2008

[dickravis]

i've always thought this guy was a douche - i can't call him a genius this time just cuz i agree with him.

[rogertjackson]

Brooks recently called Palin a "fatal cancer in the Republican Party." He's right. She reminds me why I left the party some years back. She's intellectually incurious, bigoted, backward -- basically, an embarrassment.

[kcp12304]

OMG...a conservative who doesn't talk like a jackass and can use some critical thinking.

[Rosen915]

He likes that she thinks she's qualified to be President, even though she isn't (just like other Americans). And that's exactly the problem. It takes someone truly extraordinary to lead a nation well. This isn't American Idol or the Olympics. Being blind to your own ignorance in global politics is dangerous. Winking and "you betcha" doesn't cut it with Putin or Kim Jong Il or anyone else at that level. Only American voters can stop this nonsense.

[WrongPotion]

Real polls all say she lost the debate.

[chumashfalcon]

Palin is Bush with a vagina

[dearkgar]

Brooks is intelligent, but a hack nonetheless...

[chumashfalcon]

I disagree that he is intelligent

and yes Brooks is a Hack

[dearkgar]

I think I disagree with myself, too.

[joy078]

thanks David, so nice to hear a Republican supporter speak honestly... sort of makes up his for supporting Bush for too long...

Sarah is just a flash in the pan but she does keep the news buzzing and ratings up...

[rhoddin]

Brooks is an idiot. The republicans set the bar so low for Palin, there was no way to go under it. But for Brooks to say she did a good job is simply disingenuous. He couldn't possibly think she faired well.

[Oli3TB76]

'She showed she wasn't George Bush'...?

I do believe I saw a segment on The Daily Show which presented evidence that what she's said(that has been given to her to say by the repubs) is practically what Bush said back in 2000

[eljefereal]

Yah... she showed she was DUMBER!

[jimijackson]

david brooks is always fair regardless of his political affiliation...i respect that guy.

[chumashfalcon]

Please jimijackass...

Brooks is a fool, I could write a better newspaper column while drunk.