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 ...
Secular/Cultural Jews (like their counterparts in the “Christian” world) hate practicing and outspoken Christians.
I posted this in part because this is the conversation we need to be having. The “elites” like Bill Kristol, David Brooks, David Frum are truly not fellow travelers.
He isn’t even American. He is Canadian!
Just yesterday he was being held up as credible arbiter of the Palin smears.
David Frum. A straight Andrew Sullivan
We don’t drop, we ascend.
We know Sarah Palin got that little weasel John McCain further than he would have gone. Vote for her on this poll: http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/366171/results
That makes for seventeen years, then, between the two of us.
Evidently, Mr. Frum is auditioning for the coveted ongoing role of Simon Legree.
Actually vote here: http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/366171
AuntB, the analogy I use is that conservatives are like Charlie Brown, and the GOP is like Lucy snapping the football away from him.
How many times will we allow this to happen?
We need to let go of the GOP and form a conservative party and take the best and brightest conservatives with us.
The GOP can no longer be fixed.
We need to move on, and leave them behind to join the Whigs in political history.
Okay. I can't top that one. ;)
I hope we can look down from heaven to hades and see who is there!
“Secular/Cultural Jews..... hate practicing and outspoken Christians.”
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As reliable as the rising sun.
The traditional and good cheer wish, “Merry Christmas” is like a crucifix to a vampire.
NR has been off my list for some time. While there are still some good people there, people like Frum are now more representative of the magazine. So long as that is the case they do not represent me, the base of the party or conservatisism. When NR cleans house, I’ll start reading again.
I’m aware of that.
These days, however, one’s nationality means very little.
Frum has quite a history of being the GOP’s self-appointed Chicken Little. Most famously, his tome Dead Right proclaimed the intellectual and electoral barrenness of conservatism in general and the GOP in particular, and offered Frum’s own prescriptions for the renewals of both. The blurb on the original edition’s cover read, “The great conservative revival of the 1980’s is over. Government is bigger, taxes are higher, family values are weaker, and the Democrats are in power. What will the Right do next?”
Hilariously, Frum’s question was answered just over two months after the August 1994 publication of Dead Right, when a back-bencher from Georgia led a Republican takeover of Congress that lasted for nearly a decade and a half....
Well worth the read -- Frum keeps forgetting history, poor man, so he's obviously among those who are doomed to repeat it. Watch for a new book, of course.
Try First Things - it is really good.
“College-educated Americans have come to believe that their money is safe with Democrats—but their values are under threat from Republicans.”
Is that why why Asian-Americans, who have the highest percentage of college graduates in this country, vote overwhelmingly for the Republican Party, while African-Americans, who have by far the lowest percentage of college graduates, and have the highest percentage of felons and criminals, vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats?
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