Limbaugh, Levin Question David Brooks

Rush Limbaugh’s feud with New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks is, in many ways, a microcosm of the intramural struggle going on within the Republican Party over its heart and soul. Brooks, like Senator John McCain, is considered a ”tolerable Republican” among the east coast chattering classes. Limbaugh, by contrast, is the leading Republican critic of McCain’s candidacy, operating against the media elite typified by The New York Times culture. And never the twain shall meet.

Limbaugh today attacked Brooks’ influence within the modern conservative movement and, further, called the op-ed columnist ”the perfect vessel of liberals who want (the demise of conservatism).”Mark R. Levin, a fellow WABC radio personality, appears to want to write Brooks out of conservative society entirely in today’s National Review Online, where he says:

”Perhaps Brooks’s inexperience with conservatism and the movement, and his growing isolation from both, explain his flawed perspective — which is little more than we heard from the Gerald Ford camp in the 1976 campaign. I know because I worked in support of Governor Reagan’s presidential campaign that year — when Brooks was still a liberal sorting things out.”

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