Who will provide the intellectual leadership we need?

Iowahawk, writing as T. Coddington Van Voorhies VII, "intellectual conservative at large," is beginning to "believe this Obama fellow is unequal to the task." Further, he asks whom we should look to for leadership, "the blind pig (tea partiers) who occasionally stumbles on a truffle," or elite columnists like himself, the gifted (if fashionably late) Cordon Bleu-trained chef who knows how to whip it into an intoxicating soup."