Journalist David Brooks About Face

New York Times conservative writer David Brooks is the latest to see the light why the republican party in general and conservatives in particular are out of favor with the American people and also out of touch.  He recently wrote a column titled, "Order vs. Freedom" to explain how and where the republican party lost its way.  Keep in mind this is the same David Brooks who has supported the conservative republican agenda in the past and backed George Bush's policies all the way for the last 8 years.

 

Brooks speaks about Obama running up the debt and intervenes rashly in sector after sector.  Yet he fails to mention the record debt run up by George Bush, his father and Ronald Reagan and was silent the years they did so.  Their record debt is one of the major causes of what the country and its people are dealing with today.

 

In his article, Brooks uses John Wayne and director John Ford in his fairytale.  He speaks about two theories of civic order and that shows he is out of touch with reality by explaining a "liberal theory" vs. a "conservative theory."  Brooks is still caught up in brand names and can not bring himself to the conclusion that what is needed and what was provided the American people in November was a choice for an American solution and theory.

 

The democratic party can rightly be called the American party because it represents American ideals while the republican party represents the elite.  The democratic party has its own built in checks and balances because they don't unite behind a single leader and rubber stamp their own party's proposals.  You don't see the party issuing talking points and then repeat them over and over again.  Mr. Brooks and the conservatives now find themselves in a flip-flop mode.

 

America needs a good two party system and maybe a good independent system.  The best thing the republican party can do is drop the word conservatism from its vocabulary.  Their leaders don't even understand what the word conservatism means.  The liberal label conservatives like to pin on democrats don't stick because the people can see the democratic party does not govern by ideology.  There are those that will never get it, David Brooks for one.