Frum did what he did when he did for a reason (beside the fact that he's a neocon liberal). The true conservatives that Frum despises did what any true conservative had the right to do. Disagree until war, but when war starts back the President and his decisions 100 percent. It's a good tactic, given, because he has them both ways. If they don't answer the pro-war, big government National Review wins because no one answered so the charges must be true. If they do, the pro-war, big government National Review comes up and says, 'See, we told you so!! We're more patriotic than they are'
What the childish National Review does not realize is that they've been tearing apart the 'conservative' party for over 30 years. Buckley has turned this into some sort of p@ssing contest between what he considers conservative and what the rest of the world considers conservative. And Republicans sit on the sidelines with their thumbs up their privates wondering why the Democrats keep winning the Senate for 40 years.
Buckley and his ilk have done a great disservice to the conservative party. How a newly nationalized citizen of whatever state he belongs to now from Canada can come down here and tell the citizens of the respective states what a conservative is and get anyone to listen, I'll never know. But it tells me a couple of things. Conservatives by and large aren't listening. He's having to go outside of the country to get his attack dogs and this newest little one bit off more than he can chew. Attacking an entire arm of the party and several respected men with a better reputation than introducing the jingle 'axis of evil' is not smart. It's ignorant and something I would expect of the lowest sort. Say a neocon that can't do anything more than call names