The Master Plan of David Brooks

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!