The Outcomes of Iowa #
David Brooks’s prescient remarks on Huckabee’s Iowa victory:
A conservatism that recognizes stable families as the foundation of economic growth is not hard to imagine. A conservatism that loves capitalism but distrusts capitalists is not hard to imagine either. Adam Smith felt this way. A conservatism that pays attention to people making less than $50,000 a year is the only conservatism worth defending.
Will Huckabee move on and lead this new conservatism? Highly doubtful. The past few weeks have exposed his serious flaws as a presidential candidate. His foreign policy knowledge is minimal. His lapses into amateurishness simply won’t fly in a national campaign.
He’s also got some great words about Obama’s victory in Iowa. I feel like I’ve recently become a rabid Brooks fanboy. I’m strangely comfortable with that reality.