TW: Brooks a moderate Republican has been meandering on McCain and his selection of Palin. But today I think he encapsulates the arguments for/against and the hysteria/euphoria better than anyone to date
"The elitists favor sophistication, but the common-sense folk favor simplicity. The elitists favor deliberation, but the populists favor instinct...Palin is the ultimate small-town renegade rising from the frontier to do battle with the corrupt establishment...regular people need to take control...I would have more sympathy for this view if I hadn’t just lived through the last eight years. For if the Bush administration was anything, it was the anti-establishment attitude put into executive practice...made Bush inept at governance. It turns out that governance, the creation and execution of policy, is hard. It requires acquired skills. Most of all, it requires prudence...Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared...Sarah Palin has many virtues...But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16brooks.html?th&emc=th
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