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David Frum is now a Contributing Editor to National Review, it was announced this morning on The Corner; here is his Diary from last night...

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From Frum's Diary:

If you had muted your television this campaign season and watched only the images, it would have looked as if 2002 was a fantasy match-up between George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. There was Bush standing beside some unfamiliar Republican face; here was Bill Clinton with some Dem you’d never heard of. This may seem hard to remember (or believe), but Clinton was once a very popular politician--yet Bush-backed candidates everywhere stomped Clinton’s picks as if the Clintonites were the second coming of Walter Mondale. (The literal second coming of Walter Mondale did not do so well either.)

Instead of making Americans nostalgic for the prosperity of the 1990s, the sight of Clinton’s face seems to have reminded Americans of the irresponsibility that left the country unsafe and unprepared against terror..

Amen.

[Utah Girl]

Thanks for the link to the David Frum diary on NRO. This was my favorite paragraph from the piece.

Can we also pause to salute the voters of Massachusetts for defying religious prejudice? In that state, a candidate named O?Brien attacked her opponent for belonging to a sinister, alien church -- this time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Religious fear is an ancient theme in New England politics, but it stopped working sometime around 1940, and it?s good to see that the theme is as dead as ever. Charming, competent Mitt Romney won handily, despite (or maybe because of) a shrill attack on him by Hillary Clinton herself.

Sweet.