Brooking No Quarter

David Brooks, the New York Times' erudite, measured "conservative" columnist who has had an eight year love affair with Obummer, let go with both barrels in a series of recent op-ed pieces against Donald Trump ... see: Not Trump and The Great Betrayer for some juicy quotes. One of the most cited passages from Brooksie (he was my kids' summer camp counselor and that's what they called him) was:

Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he’s uninterested in finding out. He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa. 

Trump is perhaps the most dishonest person to run for high office in our lifetimes. All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy.

Does this sound in the slightest bit erudite, measured and conservative? Donald Trump has obviously aroused Brooksie's inner child. This series of screeds against Trump clearly have some merit ... too bad that Brooksie did not find the time and the words to investigate and profile Obummer in the same manner back in 2008. Substitute the word Obummer for Trump in the above quote and it still holds true.

Now pilgrim, if you wish not to be shunned at your next suburban cocktail party, you would do well to memorize some of these Brooksie phrases ... or, better yet the entire quote, and confidently regurgitate it with gusto. You will be the hit of the party.