Posted on 03/07/2009 7:56:01 PM PST by tobyhill
It wasn't a fight I went looking for. On March 3, the popular radio host Mark Levin opened his show with an outburst (he always opens his show with an outburst): "There are people who have somehow claimed the conservative mantle … You don't even know who they are … They're so irrelevant … It's time to name names …! The Canadian David Frum: where did this a-hole come from? … In the foxhole with other conservatives, you know what this jerk does? He keeps shooting us in the back … Hey, Frum: you're a putz."
Now, of course, Mark Levin knows perfectly well where I come from. We've known each other for years, had dinner together. I'm a conservative Republican, have been all my adult life. I volunteered for the Reagan campaign in 1980. I've attended every Republican convention since 1988. I was president of the Federalist Society chapter at my law school, worked on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and wrote speeches for President Bush—not the "Read My Lips" Bush, the "Axis of Evil" Bush. I served on the Giuliani campaign in 2008 and voted for John McCain in November. I supported the Iraq War and (although I feel kind of silly about it in retrospect) the impeachment of Bill Clinton. I could go on, but you get the idea.
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A pithy comment at the article link:
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“Posted By: aviator1971 @ 03/08/2009 12:54:30 AM
I know David Frum. I worked with him at the White House. The reason he goes to such painstaking lengths to describe himself as important is because, no surprise, he wasn’t.
He wasn’t a player. Mike Gerson, John McConnell and Matt Scully were the speechwriters with standing. Frum was always the one peering inside - wanting to be included or respected.
It is terrifically awkward to watch him now. Always thought to have low self-esteem, the first few paragraphs of this article remove all doubt. He is a pathetically empty man who is striving to be someone he can’t be.
Good luck, David. It must be tough for you to watch others from our days at the White House not only outperform you, but command respect (something you never had).
Pity you.”
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And right on, too. He is a supreme putz.
Excellent ... thank you !
Frum: I'm a conservative Republican
It's questionable if Frum was ever a relevant conservative, or a conservative at all.
It's quite clear that he definitely is not a conservative at all.
I just listened to him on Levin's show and he was as liberal as any of the run of mill brain-seared unidirectional leftists.
He is trying to convince people to see him as a conservative. He isn't even close to conservative-lite but some conservatives still describe him as a conservative.
He is just another VICHY CONSERVATIVE!!!!
I stopped reading Newsweak probably 10-15 years ago.
A lot of people say Rush Limbaugh is a businessman and an entertainer, and he would be the first to agree. But being a businessman/entertainer and an educator are not mutually exclusive.
I am a subscriber, and it was some of the best money I have spent.
Frum is such a self loathing panty waist
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