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 ...
Frum’s blatherings have less useful information than one of T&P’s “commentaries.” :-)
You are SO right! That McCain won’t come out in defense of Sarah indicates to me that all he did was use her to bring us on board. Which makes me despise him more than ever. To think that the GOP has been doing the same to us over the years since Reagan left office is infuriating.
Well said. One side or the other is going down. Better them than us.
When I criticized NR for taking after her because they were simply prejudiced against Protestants, I managed to rouse virtually every RINO and countryclubber who posts on FR.
I couldn't tell if they were supporting a different candidate, or simply hated Harriet for attending a branch of my own church, or that they didn't like girls very much.
With the purge NR needs now so terribly obvious I will have to say it was pretty much all three things.
It turned out in the long run that we could probably have gotten Justice Stevens' retirement if Harriet had gone up first, and Alioto would have been added later as a meaningful 5th appointment.
So much for the one clear opportunity we had to take over the Supreme Court.
Frum is pursuing the Anti-Christ's agenda well, and that's enough reason to boot him out of our lives.
Bye bye Dave Baybee ~ cio!
Seriously, I suspect McCain is sick as hell at the moment, all worn out from the last days of the campaign. He’s an old guy after all.
Rudy - McPain and their ilk need to get their personal and moral lives in order.
Notice how Obama has an intact family? Sure his morals stink but the superficial obvious is squeaky clean.
We need to back a squeaky clean moral and economic conservative next time around.
Right now besides Palin not a soul comes to mind on the national stage among the GOP.
Frum should just have a nice warm glass of STFU.
Trying to change the GOP would be a useless exercise.
The elephant is stupid and he gets annoyed when anyone tries to change them.
We would miss the 2010,2012,2014, and 2016 elections trying to change these numbnuts.
The Republicans started by splitting from the Whigs when the Whigs wouldn’t take a stand against the expansion of slavery into new territories. Within six years they won a presidential election.
Now, they are the moribund party. And they will not be giving up their position at whatever part of trough the Dems allow them to have to make room for us.
Put in a third party and we only need 34% to win.
This sounds like a Liberal Democrat to me. Ju$t $end tax dollar$...
If he had any honor, he would still come out and say something, regardless of how tired and worn out he may be. Take a nap, get up, say your piece, then go back to bed.
It’s just not acceptable.
That's a point I keep forgetting. It seems he wasn't looking to the future of the party.
Now, it does look like Mission Accomplished.
He’s probably totally unaware of the attacks.
Couldn't happen to a rottener bunch.
I have been reading The New American for years, and they have not only been extremely (to the point of being unpopular among many hardcore GOP folks) Conservative (anti-Communist), but amazingly accurate, breaking stories 6 months or more before they wind up in the mainstream.
When the Constitution is the standard you measure by, much widely accepted falls far short—on both sides of the aisle.
ESFOAD.
Sincerely, A. Bustard, BS, MS
PS. Yes, that's right. I'm college educated, and I think the 'rats are a bunch of communist wreckers; I trust them only to destroy America. Go back to Canuckistan (if they want you), you pusillanimous puke.
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