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Thread #115177 Message #2464114
Posted By: Alice
13-Oct-08 - 12:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Conservative Buckley's son voting for Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Conservative Buckley's son voting for
From David Brooks, Oct 9, The Class War Before Palin
"Driven by a need to engage elite opinion, conservatives tried to build an intellectual counterestablishment with think tanks and magazines. They disdained the ideas of the liberal professoriate, but they did not disdain the idea of a cultivated mind."
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"But no American politician plays the class-warfare card as constantly as Palin. Nobody so relentlessly divides the world between the "normal Joe Sixpack American" and the coastal elite."