This is, perhaps, the best analysis I have read regarding the sudden race to the exits by conservative intellectuals. By Victor David Hanson … its a must read.
The latest conservative intellectual to jump ship, David Brooks, laments the end of conservative curiosity replaced by a new “Palin” induced class warfare. In other words, us “PBR Folk” vs the “Ivy League of Smart, Nuanced, Thoughtful, Curious We Really Know Better Cause We Read Stuff You Couldn’t Possibly Understand Folk.” (Ooops, there I go again proving Mr Brooks correct. Darn, Shucks. My Bad.
But VDH sees it all little differently.
Second, with Obama now with an 6-8 point lead, some in the DC/NY corridor these last three weeks figure it’s time now to jump on, or at least sort of jump, since the train they think is leaving the station and there might be still be some space at the dinner table on the caboose. They also believe as intellectuals that the similarly astute Obamians may on occasion inspire, or admire them as the like-minded who cultivate the life of the mind–in contrast to the “cancer” Sarah Palin, who, with her husband Todd, could hardly discuss Proust with them or could offer little if any sophisticated table-talk other than the chokes on shotguns or optimum RPMs on snow-machines.
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