For him to be so smart...

....David Brooks sure is stupid. The political center has NEVER had any sort of coherent governing philosophy other than "we're sensible and pragmatic" without ever once defining the term. And from what I know of Rand Paul, he seems to be the one who's "sensible and pragmatic" in that he looks at what works and what doesn't, while David Brooks and his ilk come off as the ideologues because they stubbornly insist on the same old government solutions that have gotten us into this mess. Witness how Brooks defines the "free labor tradition -- a tradition that uses government to encourage work, to reward work, and to uphold the (core values)." That pretty much says it all, no?