Dorothy Wickenden discusses presidential politics with her New Yorker colleagues Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg, who are joined by Neera Tanden, of the Center for American Progress, and Steve Schmidt, who is perhaps best known for becoming publicly annoyed, while running McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, with the performance of Sarah Palin. So as Republicans go he is under-benighted. Is it true, as he says, around nine minutes in, that the conservative movement is "intellectually serious" and has been undercut by know-nothings like Palin? I wish Wickendon had asked him who, among the Republican candidates for president, or among the 289 Republican members of Congress, represents the "intellectually serious" wing of the party.
The "conservative movement" has been Palinized.
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