NYT's David Brooks Goes Off Deep End with Ludicrous 'First They
Came' Rant  In Tuesday's New York Times print edition, supposed
in-house conservative David Brooks ended his column bemoaning
how the Republican base (nicknamed "wingers," who are
"Republicans on the extreme") is ruining the "mainstream" Grand
Old Party by violating a Godwin's Law corollary, namely
(rephrased for columnists) that whoever inappropriately alludes
to the Nazi era in German automatically fails to make his point
effectively.  Brooks's final bark: "First they went after the
Rockefeller Republicans, but I was not a Rockefeller Republican.
Then they went after the compassionate conservatives, but I was
not a compassionate conservative. Then they went after the
mainstream conservatives, and there was no one left to speak for
me." Yep, he's trying to claim he's to the right of George W.
Bush, but that he's not sufficiently pure enough for today's
"wingers." Sure, David.  In the run-up to his wrap-up outrage,
Brooks lamented how really grea