After praising Sarah Palin for her political talent, conservative political columnist and commentator David Brooks proceeded to declare that she isn’t ready to be vice president and, in fact, represents a “fatal cancer” plaguing the Republican Party. Brooks made his comments to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg at a luncheon held by the magazine on Monday.

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