The New York Times’ best approximation of a conservative voice, David Brooks, is receiving the usual accolades from progressives for his “devastating” column in response to Mitt Romney’s “off-the-cuff” remarks caught on hidden camera. Even Mia Farrow is happy to pass on Brooks’ assertion that Romney has “lost any sense of the social compact.”
'in video,'Romney’s comments reveal that he has lost any sense of the social compact.' -Brooks http://t.co/5rdSfcAW http://t.co/WxlMfgBB
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) September 18, 2012
To conservatives, though, Romney’s remarks sounded like he had a very firm grasp on the social compact, not overlooking the fact that a compact is a two-way agreement with responsibilities on both sides. Brooks’ claim that “Americans haven’t become childlike worshipers of big government” just doesn’t ring true so soon after a Democratic National Convention featuring a 31-year-old whose claim to fame was a demand for taxpayer-funded birth control. So, Romney is the one who’s out of touch?
Progs are drooling over elite NYT Obama bromantic David Brooks's latest column mocking Romney for being out of touch. No, really.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 18, 2012
@michellemalkin Romney's pants creases leave much to be desired.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) September 18, 2012
When in the hell was David Brooks a conservative?! Was he the last guy picked on the team right after Huckabee and Scarborough?
— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) September 18, 2012
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Brooks’ simultaneous shout-outs to both “Gilligan’s Island” and the GOP’s alleged shift to a “more hyperindividualistic and atomistic social view” are like well-creased trousers to the progressive readers.
Must-read. A "country-club fantasy." @JoeNBC: David Brooks on Romney's Blundering "Victim Speech" / Howell Romney http://t.co/l2gDhuMD
— Terry Moran (@TerryMoran) September 18, 2012
David Brooks: "Romney… Country-Club Fantasy… What Self-Satisfied Millionaries Say to Each Other" http://t.co/pCM36eYy
— Brad DeLong ?? (@delong) September 18, 2012
David Brooks's NYT column on the Romney-freeloaders meltdown is quite devastating, even kinda touching: http://t.co/R9bD0h0S
— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) September 18, 2012
https://twitter.com/Chernynkaya/status/247909848556109824
Romney’s remarks to donors were not policy, but a blunt political admission that those who feel entitled are unlikely to be swayed to vote GOP. So many have called them “the final nail in the coffin” of the campaign that there can’t be any nails left. So, does Brooks receive credit for sealing the casket with his “evisceration”?
Know what happens when you lose @nytdavidbrooks? Record unemployment, record deficits, worse recovery since Great Depression #creasedpantleg
— OceanusRex (@OceanusRex) September 18, 2012
BS. When you've lost Brooks, you've lost weaselly coastal elites. RT @daveweigel When you've lost David Brooks, you've lost middle America.
— David Colburn (@davidcolburn) September 18, 2012
@daveweigel We've lost David Brooks?! Please tell me he can't be found . . . please. Please.
— TK (@Chicago_Todd) September 18, 2012
https://twitter.com/RepRepublic/status/247916101797818368
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