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Why The Grassroots Needs Elites
Ross Douthat — ... You might think that David Brooks is too taken with Barack Obama's facility for Reinhold Niebuhr-related jaw-jaw, and too quick to attack conservatives who don't share his views on immigration, say, or the bailout. But if you want Sarah Palin as your standard-bearer, you need a Brooks, or someone like him, at the table when her speeches are being written and her policy positions are being hashed out. You need elites, and you especially need elites who work and live outside the conservative cocoon, and who have a sense of how to talk to people who aren't already persuaded ...

Well, sure he's a Lefty, but he's so damn smart ...
The Corner on National Review Online — ... For a long time, I struggled with the question whether it would be better especially on the matter of conservative reform discussed here yesterday if we just resigned ourselves to rebuilding and becoming a coherent opposition to an Obama administration. I abandoned that idea because, while I disagree with McCain on many things, I am frightened by Obama. He would try to change the United States in very fundamental ways. He may be exceedingly bright, but my litmus test is not whether he can discuss Reinhold Niebuhr's philosophy ...

Who should replace Bill Kristol?
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... , that leaves David Brooks -- a fan of talking philosophy with Obama --  as the lone conservative regularly on the page. Since September 2003, when Brooks joined the op-ed page, there has typically been another conservative or libertarian columnist at the Times, such as William Safire or John Tierney. ...

Kossack Broderism: It's NOT The Certainty, Stupid!
Open Left - Front Page — ... Liberal objectives like withdrawing from Iraq, stopping AIDS and working more closely with our allies are laudable, "but they hardly constitute a coherent national security policy." Obama, Gospel and Verse ...