Posted on 08/15/2012 9:31:04 AM PDT by tselatysr
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
Not all Republicans are happy with Mitt Romney's choice to make Rep. Paul Ryan his running mate. David Frum, former speech writer for President George W. Bush, is beside himself.
"At every turn, the party has demanded, 'More ideology! I gotta have more ideology!'" laments Frum in a column appearing on CNN.com. "With the selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate, Romney has now acceded to that wish. The least ideological Republican candidate since 1968 has committed himself to the most ideological Republican program since 1964."
Actually, it was the least ideological Republican candidate since 1968 - Sen. John McCain - that was trounced by a featherweight Chicago politician who presented the country with nothing more than a silly balloon-animal distraction called hope and change ... and won.
Candidates with ideas, even bad ones, trump those without a clue every day of the week.
Frum hates ideology because of the ideas that underlie it, especially if the ideas in question happen to be small-government and conservative in nature. Establishment Republicans, of which Frum is a card-carrying member, made peace with FDR's New Deal back in the 1950s. The theory goes that voters will never let Republicans opposed to the Progressive status quo drive Daddy New Deal's classic car; and establishment Republicans like nothing more than getting under the hood to tinker with the engine - hoping to fine tune the beast.
That 80-year-old jalopy has sputtered to a stop and is up on blocks. There's no fixing the ancient relic. It's time to shop for a new car.
Even Obama has abandoned the nebulous hope-and-change dogmas of the past for something a little more substantial: forced income equality, a government-directed economy that produces an endless stream of failed Solyndras, and controlling every American's body through government-run health care. You can be forgiven for viewing the totality of Obama's 2012 ideology as, well, totalitarian.
Needless to say, Frum is blind to Obama's totality.
Last June, Frum attacked Republicans for opposing dictatorial ObamaCare with calls for its repeal. "The reform, for all its many, many faults, did one important thing: extend health insurance coverage to almost all Americans. A Republican alternative should aspire to do the same. That statement is controversial in today's GOP. It should not be. Universal coverage need not mean higher costs, nor more statism," said Frum.
Really?
If John McCain is to be praised for anything, it's for not attempting to express that blank slate he calls a mind with words. Frum, on the other hand, loudly proclaims that big-government's totalitarian programs can be made cost-effective and lead to greater individual freedom once sprinkled with establishment GOP pixy dust.
"He [Romney] has chosen as his running mate Paul Ryan, the House Republican leader - not their formal leader, but their intellectual leader, the person who set their agenda," said Frum, "He has effectively adopted Paul Ryan's agenda as his own: big immediate cuts in spending, a dramatic cut in the top rate of income tax to 28% and a bold reform of Medicare for those 55 and under."
Paul Ryan said that America is "the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes."
Obama and establishment Republicans disagree with that fundamental and foundational idea.
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Mr Curmudgeon is a freelance writer living in South Florida.
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david drum..... vapid lap dog
They wanted Rubio. They were pushing Rubio. Jeb Bush said he wanted Rubio. They figured’d it’d be Rubio. Too bad. Oh, too bad.
Ha! Citing David Frum as a credible source for *anything* is like citing Allen Funt as a great actor.
“That 80-year-old jalopy has sputtered to a stop and is up on blocks. There’s no fixing the ancient relic. It’s time to shop for a new car.”
To paraphrase an Oldsmobile ad: Ryan’s shiny new vehicle is not your Dad’s Medicare.
That this shallow word spinner is upset is truly one of the best recommendations that Paul Ryan could have. Here for amusement is a piece I wrote about Frum, a few years back, David Frum To Haiti Project. (I will admit that it is a bit 'tongue in cheek'; but my intellectual contempt for Frum's reasoning ability, is genuine.)
William Flax
Lets do all we can to re-establish, the GOP establishment.
Right now the GOP establishment is the moderate wing of the Democrat party.
The GOP in it’s present form is worse than useless.Brown nosers and butt lickers. Not a good pair of testicles in the whole bunch.
If there were a vianle third party I would join it in a minute.
Lets do all we can to re-establish, the GOP establishment.
Right now the GOP establishment is the moderate wing of the Democrat party.
The GOP in it’s present form is worse than useless.Brown nosers and butt lickers. Not a good pair of testicles in the whole bunch.
If there were a viable third party I would join it in a minute.
Tough noogies.
I think that the establishment really wanted Marco Rubio. They’re thinking “close election” and Rubio could theoretically deliver Florida.
I think Romney, much to my surprise, has torn-up the 2008 playbook. I think he intends to compete in the Rust Belt States, so Obama/Biden is going to have to defend the entire country from Romney’s spread offense.
It’s either going to be a narrow Obama win, or Romney is going to crush Obama. But the only thing the establishment Republicans are worried about is how this might put Senate Republicans and the House majority at risk.
I think Paul Ryan is a mixed bag and certainly no Reagan. PR is bad on big-gov spending (supported Tarp, Stim, etc.), he’s F rated terrible on Immigration and another is a big interventionist like McCain...otherwise he’s a definitely better than Condo Rice.
Now if Ryan could somehow talk Romney into going away, I might vote for him.
“David Frum, former speech writer for President George W. Bush, is beside himself.”
“Oh, G-d, I hope not. One of him is already too many.”
LOL!!
So, how do we conduct the purge?
Keep electing Tea Party guys?
Are the “establishment” people elected or put in power by members of the party?
They have been there for years. They stay there by working the system.
They deliver “pork” to ther districts.
The lobger they stay in Congress the more seniority they have and the more “pork” they can deliver.
We get rid of them by electing honest Republicans and establishing term limits by voting out the old porkers.
hard to do because everyone likes pork.
Throw the establishment out of the party.
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