I've always felt that I should dislike David Brooks more than I do. He's the erstwhile conservative foil to E.J. Dionne on NPR, Official Conservative at the New York Times, and relatively recent neocon gadfly-lite. I don't like his ideas, but he's always seemed so milquetoast that I haven't been able to get up a good head of steam about it.
Well, last night I had an insight into the David Brooks Master Plan. While watching the Democratic National Convention on PBS, where Brooks was one of the talking heads, he stated that in order to counter the Democratic mantra pairing McCain and Bush, in order to separate himself from Bush, McCain's only possible choice for Vice-Presidential running mate is now... wait for it... Joe Lieberman.
(Not the first time he has suggested this, thanks Wikipedia.)
To which any self-respecting Democrat, and even the still-ardent Hillary supporters, can only say, "Hell yeah!" You're welcome to him, and good riddance. I can't think of any decision John McCain could make that would please me more.
And that brings me back to the motivation of David Brooks. Since there is no way an intelligent, articulate, clear-thinking individual can believe that McCain-Lieberman (the Muppet Show!) would be a successful ticket, he must be a secret Liberal working behind the scenes to push this idea, to secure the election of Ned Lamont, to encourage Lieberman's recent party-busting comments, hoping that this comes about, thus securing the election for Obama-Biden.
Go Brooksie!
Now to see what happens to John's argument about Obama's lack of experience....