Posted on 11/07/2008 1:07:40 PM PST by Publius804
David Frum to the Religious Right: Drop Dead
Posted by Tom Piatak on November 05, 2008
After weeks of expressing contempt for the delcasse Sarah Palin, David Frum has now expressed his disdain for the voters who liked Palin and who have propelled the GOP to victory after victory since Reagan’s election in 1980, the evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics who vote Republican because of their concern over issues like abortion. According to Frum, such voters need to be jettisoned because “College-educated Americans have come to believe that their money is safe with Democrats--but their values are under threat from Republicans.”
To pursue the burgeoning yuppie class, “will involve painful change, on issues ranging from the environment to abortion. And it will involve potentially even more painful changes of style and tone: toward a future that is less overtly religious, less negligent with policy and less polarizing on social issues.”
What Frum neglects to add is that none of these changes would be “painful” for him, a pro-abortion, non-religious denizen of a tony Washington neighborhood, who has long been uncomfortable with social issues and tolerated religious voters so long as they were willing to vote Republican without expecting much in return and serve as cannon fodder in the wars Frum wants America to fight, but now thinks he has found something better.
The question is, with National Review giving the boot to its founder’s son and Jeffrey Hart, why does it still keep Frum around? Is National Review, too, becoming embarrassed by religious conservatives? (Thanks to John Seiler for pointing out this latest revelation from David Frum).
(Excerpt) Read more at takimag.com ...
Screw that CANADIAN faux-conservative.
David Frum to the Religious Right: Drop Dead
The Religious Americans to David Frum - YOU FIRST DIRTBAG
Fascinating last name for someone who is allergic to religion.
National Review needs a purging like the GOP. Phonies BE GONE!
So they believe exactly the opposite of reality. Down is up, evil is good, left is right. God help us.
David Frum - a member of the vulgarian class.
But he should fear what happens after he “drops dead”
HMMM . . . I wonder what happened to the last man that told God to drop dead?
The sooner the Republican Party stops looking to people like him for any direction, the better off we'll all be in the long run.
These so-called "neo-conservatives" are pathologically bitter about having their half-@sses conservative lose to an abject mediocrity. And keep in mind . . . that lisping, limp-wristed weirdo Rudy Giuliani was actually their first choice to represent the GOP in 2008.
Can we please boot the pinky extended while drinking tea Republicans 1st in the midst of the clean-up while trying to get our agenda back to Reagan?
There are elements at National Review that really are quickly becoming a joke - Derbyshire & Stuttaford are the first two that come to mind. If you want a serious conservative magazine/journal read First Things.
In other words: a liberal @sshat.
Did we not just run one of those enviro-friendly Republicans (No ANWR Drilling, Global Warming BS ect). And McCain supported stem cell research. I don't think abortion was a major issue in the campaign.
For ten years on this forum I’ve been saying ‘the GOP uses the right just like the dems use blacks’.
And if this election hasn’t proven it I don’t know what will.
Time for the Republican elites to take the back seat in the party.
Well, bitter religion clingers, look on the bright side: there’s plenty of shade underneath the bus...
delcasse ?...............
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