The media's concern with Sarah Palin's experience is transparently partisan, particularly in the view that they are supporting for president, a man who gave a speech in 2004.

Every circus needs a clown, and so-called conservative David Brooks has volunteered to paint on a sad face and gravely intone his concerns over Sarah Palin's lack of experience...

...I would have more sympathy for this view if I hadn’t just lived through the last eight years. For if the Bush administration was anything, it was the anti-establishment attitude put into executive practice.

And the problem with this attitude is that, especially in his first term, it made Bush inept at governance. It turns out that governance, the creation and execution of policy, is hard. It requires acquired skills. Most of all, it requires prudence.

If you have to appeal to Bush derangement syndrome to make a point, your argument is pretty weak to begin with. Brooks appears to be writing this column to make friends of Mammon