Brooks Comes Out Against Palin

Brooks in the NYT. I disagree with how he characterizes the "liberal elite" skewing of Palin ... but he's right about how it's ridiculous to think that good governing can be done by any Josie Schmoe.

In the current Weekly Standard, Steven Hayward argues that the nation’s founders wanted uncertified citizens to hold the highest offices in the land. They did not believe in a separate class of professional executives. They wanted rough and rooted people like Palin.

I would have more sympathy for this view if I hadn’t just lived through the last eight years. For if the Bush administration was anything, it was the anti-establishment attitude put into executive practice.