STUPID IS AS STUPID DOESConservative David Brooks: Palin a “fatal cancer” for the GOP ticketWatch: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/08/brooks-palin-fatal-cancer/“[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. . … Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas