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The Spectacle Blog
David Frum argues that (a) Republicans are a threat to suburban values, (b) Sarah Palin is Harriet Miers, and (c) Rush Limbaugh is part of the problem.
(Video via Hot Air.) Some readers may recall that, a year after leaving his job as a Bush speechwriter, Frum wrote a National Review article denouncing several critics of the Iraq war -- including Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak -- as "Unpatriotic Conservatives." Now that the $5-billion-a-week Iraq war has helped deliver Congress and the White House to Democrats, Frum is leaving National Review and who knows whom he'll denounce next? Probably not Barack Obama.
By the way, did I mention that Frum is . . . Canadian?
UPDATE: I guess I should add that, despite his attempt to cast several of my friends into outer darkness, I actually like David Frum. His book, How We Got Here is the definitive history of the 1970s and eminently readable. But, like several other conservative intellectuals, Frum seems so demoralized by the denouement of the Bush presidency that he's not going to let facts stand in the way of his panic stampede.
Take, for example, Frum's assertion that suburban voter view the Republican Party as "a threat to their values." Some actual election results:
- Delaware County, Ohio (suburban Columbus) -- McCain 59%, Obama 40%
- Cass County, Mo. (suburban Kansas City) -- McCain 59%, Obama 40%
- Westmoreland County, Pa. (suburban Pittsburgh) -- McCain 58%, Obama 41%
- Gwinnett County, Ga. (suburban Atlanta) -- McCain 55%, Obama 44%
Granted, more than five years after "Mission Accomplished" and with the economy circling the drain, the Democrats made tremendous inroads, but it takes a lot of effort to look at the actual vote totals and conclude that suburbanites see the GOP as a "threat." I repeat: Don't overthink it.
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linda| 11.17.08 @ 11:26PM
Yes, he is Canadian and his mom is a very well respected columunist is the Great White North. Canada is also recognized for their atheisim and so is the columnist.
Maybe he just doesn't get America.
Captain America| 11.17.08 @ 11:37PM
Remind me again of Frum's bona fides. I realize he drafted some speeches on 43's behalf, of which several cabinet members and committee members make annotations and edits, but what the hell has he accomplished that would qualify him as an arbiter of conservatism?
Seems we have a number of these types running afoot. Perhaps we should lock Pawlenty, Frum, Parker, Brooks, and the rest in their own room and let them spin.
Dan| 11.18.08 @ 1:28AM
I still don't get it: what did Pawlenty do exactly?
Spicy Joker| 11.18.08 @ 1:52AM
David "Axis of Evil" Frum, Ken "Cakewalk" Adelman, and David Brooks are losers. They're trying to save what's left of their pathetic careers by scapegoating real conservatives for the mess that they damn well know was THEIR fault.
Alenda Lux| 11.18.08 @ 3:00AM
Here's my take on it - needless to say I don't agree with Frum or Spicy Joker.
http://alendalux.blogspot.com/2008/11/fissures-in-party.html
James Madison| 11.18.08 @ 4:04AM
When it looked like the Iraq war was going to be a success, the fake and phony conservatives like Frum were going to take credit for it and expel all the traditional conservatives and foreign policy realists from the Republican party. Now that the fake and phony Iraq war conservatives have destroyed the Republican party and the conservative brand, they want to place the blame on somebody else.
The reason the fake and phony conservatives stick around is that the Mainstream Media like the fake and phony conservatives for obvious reasons. I mean, if you could pick your opponents you would pick the guys who were in agreement with you and would do the most damage to the side you oppose. The fake and phony conservatives fit in perfectly for the purposes the Mainstream Media have in mind.
J David| 11.18.08 @ 8:16AM
Brooks, Frum, Parker, Adleman, Kristol, Barnes, Rubin, etc., remind me a lot of the "concern trolls" being noticed and mocked at places like Ace of Spades HQ, just before the election...
Bob| 11.18.08 @ 8:37AM
Doesn't anyone get the irony here? The smartest people in the party say there is a problem so the dumbest say they don't know what they're talking about. Rich.....
What's happening here is that the anti-intellectuals -- the social conservatives -- those that pay homage to college dropouts like Limbaugh and Hannity and to Presidential candidates that graduate at the bottom of their class -- want stupidity to win. Give me a break.
Crusader| 11.18.08 @ 10:08AM
Bob, lib troll extraordinaire!
Bob you haven't answered my question from yesterday about taxes and choices. Is it too intellectual for you?
Bob| 11.18.08 @ 12:11PM
Crusader, leader of the weak minded!
I did answer your question. I believe in choice whether it is in regards to schools or abortion. I want government out of my life on social and personal issues. I am consistent on the matter of choice in all things. It is an inconsistency of the weak minded to believe otherwise.
Let's get the Republican party back to conservatism and away from religion whether it be Christianity or secularism.
adagioforstrings| 11.18.08 @ 12:23PM
Re: Republicans losing suburban votes as per "Delaware County, Ohio (suburban Columbus) -- McCain 59%, Obama 40% "
This might reflect the point of your other post concerning leftward university profs supporting the donkey party. Columbus is the hometown of Ohio State U. I work at another university. The political "debate" on the faculty listserv during the campaign season was not nuanced & intellectual, but inflammatory & polemical. Just because people have pieces of paper hanging on their wall does not magically turn them into oracles and arbiters of wisdom.