(I'm sorry. I just couldn't help myself.) ;)
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 ...
RINOs should fade into obscurity...this election is living proof that their “reach-across-the-aisle-with-no-reach-around” only ends in defeat.
BURN DOWN THE BIG TENT, send the clowns and circus freaks where they belong, back to their beloved JACKASS party.
> Screw that CANADIAN faux-conservative.
Do you have a problem with Canadians?
A Canadian!? Did you know they have beavers on their nickels?
I can’t really say if that’s a good or bad thing...but Frum is a sissy!
In all seriousness, what is he asking Republicans to become? Democrats...right? I guess I don’t understand what he believes Republicans are for if they drop all these ideals.
Who’s David Frum?
In 1996, William Safire wrote that social conservatives need to ‘get to the back of the bus and let the adults drive’.
That was after those rabid social conservatives, Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, had their butts handed to them by Clinton after their fire-breathing campaign!
So yes, liberal GOPers who care about nothing but money want all others to leave the Party. Because we all know how well candidates do who pursue the middle-of-the -road voters...
No, but with faux conservatives from other countries who like to tell Americans who to vote for.
The poll today said that 91 percent of Republicsns approve of Sarah Palin, even wtih all the dirt the Bushbags on McCain’s staff threw at her. I guess David Frum (whoever heard of this guy?), the bloviating Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, Charles Fried and the other Obama-backing nonentities make up the 9 percent. As I calculate it, 91 percent generally trumps 9 percent.
(I'm sorry. I just couldn't help myself.) ;)
“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.”
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Absolutely. That’s why I am not a registered republican. To many, leaving the GOP is like filing for a divorce. It’s insane. We’ve been arguing this for 15 years. If this election doesn’t prove the GOP is NOT on the conservative
side I don’t know what it will take.
Lets be honest shall we - Brooks, Frum, etc display some elements of Christophobia. I don’t know if they are but it sure seems that way.
Remember what the Nazis did to the Jews? It’s happening here now, the Nazi Left Wing is getting ready to intern us
You just can't help but think that sort of thing ought to be a whole lot more readily apparent to a whole lot more people out there than it evidently is, y'know...? ;)
I was thinking more along the lines of a gay Chris Hitchens. But then, I’m reading this as Frummy’s coming out party.
How many years in the wilderness are you willing to endure?
My sentiments Exactly.
There are entirely too many NR staffers...well, actually, it’s not just NR staffers, there are a wide variety of center-right pundits...who need to take a laxative and clear their mind.
“College-educated Americans have come to believe that their money is safe with Democrats—but their values are under threat from Republicans.”
I’m sick to death of this. I’m a college-educated American and I don’t feel this way at all. Of course, I don’t have a high degree and I didn’t attend Ivy League or anything close, so I’m just a rube.
Gauche.
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