He's Canadian. He can turn a phrase, and was one of Bush's most effective speech writers, but he's always been WAY TOO moderate.
Never followed him but when I've noticed him, he's always got some ugly comment about conservatives or Republicans. Does he have any real support in the party?"
I can't say that I'm attuned to DC/GOP power base, but my reading of the tea leaves says that he doesn't hold any sway, at all.
Frum's only redeeming quality is that he's more conservative than David Brooks. Of course, Olympia Snow is more conservative than David Brooks.
I am not so sure about that.
I have been reading Ronald Kessler’s book on Bush, “A Matter of Character”, Pages 137 and 138:
Frum the weasel claimed in his own book “The Right Man”, that Bush was “impatient, quick to anger, glib , dogmatic, uncurious and ill informed”
Karen Hughes replied that Frum was only a low level speech writer, who had only met Bush in the Oval Office a few times. Bush's chief speech writer Mike Gerson said Frum hardly knew Bush.
“Who the hell is Frum to even say this?” Bush aide Margaret Spellings said. “The only reason Bush recognized him was he saw his picture blasted on TV then thousand times. The president didn't know who David Frum was”.
Frum is a pathetic joke, an attention seeking jerk, and one of the most treacherous weasels one could ever meet.
Maybe Frum has given that impression over the years to inflate is resume?
Frum was trying to be a hard-line "role back the size of government" guy back in the Nineties when he wrote Dead Right. Of course, he isn't any more.
But I think the problem is more that Frum's an opportunist who's out to advance his own career, and that he's specialized in attacking other conservatives rather than working with them.
He's too full of himself, too much the rogue egotist.