David Brooks: Republicans in "World of Pain"

I enjoy David Brooks; watch him every Friday at 6:00 p.m. on PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer. I don't always agree with him by a long shot, but he is a SANE Republican. He knows how to take the temperature of the country. He sees trends, changes, forward MOVEMENT for god's sake. He gets it that issues need to be addressed from a balanced perspective rather than a hellbent for leather ideological vortex of whirling fears and prejudices with a death-grip on the past.

For my part, if the Republicans are in a world of pain as Brooks said here on Face the Nation yesterday, they've no one but themselves to blame. Those chickens coming home to roost are so massive, so leaden, the whole house is caving on them and unless they learn the lesson, it will be a generation at least before they come into power again. It heartens me very much to hear Brooks' dead-on analysis; he's nailed it, more than any other pundit I've read so far. Note what he says about Sarah Palin. Watch: