Some Words

So David Brooks pumps out the crazy and gets smacked the fuck down. Balance is restored to the world. But does anyone but me remember the speech he made to a Young Republican group last year that was broadcast on C-Span? I mean, I feel really dorky admiting that I was watching C-Span for more than the two seconds it takes to get past it while channel surfing. But one day, I don’t remember why, I stopped there. David was there, playing the usual role of Republican apologist in chief. He was going into the usual stuff about the ‘burbs growing and feeding the Republican machine.

That’s when things got sureal for me. He stood on the podium and basically said that the Republicans had screwed a bunch of stuff up. Then he said something that amazed me, and I’m paraphrasing here, I would give anything for the actual text, it was the gold standard of ‘what are you thining.’ He said that Republicans had shown themselves to be bad at governing, but it was ok, because the demographics were set for them to continue getting elected. Now, I’m probably crazy, because I’ve been taking hippy drugs here at work all day, but if you say that you’re bad at governing, maybe the solution is not to govern? Play to your strenghts man! He said Dems were good at governing (ish, again, I’m paraphrasing here, he probably weaseled around on it more) but the Republicans were better at getting elected. There is an obvious solution here.

Republicans should be campaign managers and let the Dems to the governing. Hey, I didn’t say it. I just twisted a half remembered speech by David Brooks into saying it.