The GOP Has No More Smart People

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Watch Brooks say Palin is a “fatal cancer” for the GOP.

The GOP Has No More Smart People

David Brooks has the stats showing Democrats are smarter than Republicans. They outnumber Republicans among lawyers 4-to-1; among doctors, 2-to-1; among tech executives, 5-to-1; and among investment bankers, 2-to-1. Brooks mourns the anti-intellectualism of the modern day GOP. "What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole," he writes. He then proceeds to throw Sarah Palin—who last week inspired Brooks to write that "somewhere in heaven, Norman Rockwell is smiling"—under the bus. "No American politician plays the class-warfare card as constantly as Palin.”

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Posted at 7:28 AM, Oct 10, 2008

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