Unbobolievable Denseness

Ah, David Brooks, so well parodied recently by Tom Tomorrow. One can never really believe just how jejune and dense he can be.

Today, he moves away from the perils of white people not having enough babies to the breakdown of fraternal organizations.

...Fraternal organizations are no area of expertise to Attaturk, but I'm pretty sure they were not the cross cultural, economic panacea that Bobolicious makes them out to be. In fact, I'm pretty damn sure of it. But that doesn't stop him.

He has the idiocy to state this:

Over the past two years, what we might loosely call the university-town elite has come to dominate the Democratic Party not just intellectually, but financially as well.

Howard Dean, in his fervent antiwar phase, mobilized new networks of small donors, and these donors have quickly become the money base of the party. Whereas Al Gore raised only about $50 million from individuals in 2000, John Kerry raised $225 million, including $87 million over the Internet alone. Many of these new donors are highly educated. The biggest groups of donors to the Dean and Kerry campaigns were employees of the University of California, Harvard, Stanford, Time Warner, Microsoft and so on.

They tend to be to the left of the country, especially on social and security issues. They may not agree with Michael Moore on everything, but many enjoyed "Fahrenheit 9/11." Perhaps they are among the hundreds of thousands of daily visitors to Daily Kos and other blogs that savage Democrats who violate party orthodoxy.

Many Republicans are mystified as to why the Democrats, having lost another election, are about to name Howard Dean as party chairman and have allowed Barbara Boxer and Ted Kennedy to emerge unchallenged as the loudest foreign policy voices.

The answer, as Mickey Kaus observes in Slate, is that the party is following the money. The energy and the dough are in the MoveOn.org wing, which is not even a wing of the party, but the head and the wallet. Only the most passionate and liberal voices can stir up this network of online donors from the educated class.

Howard Dean may not be as liberal as he appeared in the primaries, but in 1,001 ways - from his secularism to his stridency - he embodies the newly dominant educated class, which is large, self-contained and assertive.

Thanks to this newly dominant group, the Democrats are sure to carry Berkeley for decades to come.

First of all, he talks about the "insolarity" of these academic Democrats, while at the same time talking about his network of "small donors" ... anyone else NOT see the irony of that phrase.

Second, of all, while talking as if this is a small group of elites, what he is describing is "grass roots" politics the very thing he is accusing the Democrats of not doing.

Third, nice to slip in the right-wing talk radio and White House talking points about Boxer and Kennedy, ever the use of the "boogey men".

Fourth, Mickey Kaus! Mickey "Fucking" Kaus. Seeing Mickey fucking Kaus held up as some sort of thermometer is just short of having Zell Miller as your pollstar.

For the 50,823,973rd time, when conservative HACKS like Bobo are giving Democrats advice, give 'em the bird and do the opposite.