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David Frum to the Religious Right: Drop Dead
www.takimag.com ^ | November 05, 2008 | Tom Piatak

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).

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; christianvote; conservatism; davidfrum; frum; mccain; moralabsolutes; religiousright; republicans
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To: TheDon

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.


41 posted on 11/07/2008 1:21:16 PM PST by RasterMaster (DUmocrats - the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism & surrender)
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To: SolidWood

> Screw that CANADIAN faux-conservative.

Do you have a problem with Canadians?


42 posted on 11/07/2008 1:21:26 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Publius804
Dear David Frum: What do you mean déclassé? Who annoited you? Sincerely, Voter
43 posted on 11/07/2008 1:21:30 PM PST by pointsal
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To: SolidWood

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!


44 posted on 11/07/2008 1:22:14 PM PST by tumblindice (Sarah Palin is hot. National Review is not.)
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To: Publius804

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.


45 posted on 11/07/2008 1:22:27 PM PST by Chicos_Bail_Bonds
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To: Publius804

Who’s David Frum?


46 posted on 11/07/2008 1:22:43 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: Publius804

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...


47 posted on 11/07/2008 1:22:44 PM PST by Mr Rogers (And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way - Reagan)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

No, but with faux conservatives from other countries who like to tell Americans who to vote for.


48 posted on 11/07/2008 1:22:47 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

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.


49 posted on 11/07/2008 1:22:53 PM PST by laconic
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To: DieHard the Hunter

(I'm sorry. I just couldn't help myself.) ;)

50 posted on 11/07/2008 1:23:57 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (G-d watch over and protect Sarah Palin and her family.)
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To: exit82

“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.”

________

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.


51 posted on 11/07/2008 1:24:00 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: Mr Rogers

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.


52 posted on 11/07/2008 1:24:35 PM PST by Publius804
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To: Publius804

Remember what the Nazis did to the Jews? It’s happening here now, the Nazi Left Wing is getting ready to intern us


53 posted on 11/07/2008 1:25:13 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: laconic
As I calculate it, 91 percent generally trumps 9 percent.

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...? ;)

54 posted on 11/07/2008 1:26:08 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (G-d watch over and protect Sarah Palin and her family.)
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To: xkaydet65

I was thinking more along the lines of a gay Chris Hitchens. But then, I’m reading this as Frummy’s coming out party.


55 posted on 11/07/2008 1:26:40 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (the evil has landed)
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To: AuntB; exit82

How many years in the wilderness are you willing to endure?


56 posted on 11/07/2008 1:26:40 PM PST by Cedric
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To: TheDon
"Time for the Republican elites to take the back seat in the party."

My sentiments Exactly.

57 posted on 11/07/2008 1:27:00 PM PST by redhead (ALASKA; Step out of the bus, and into the food chain)
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To: Publius804

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.


58 posted on 11/07/2008 1:27:29 PM PST by RichInOC (Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
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To: polymuser

“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.


59 posted on 11/07/2008 1:27:35 PM PST by Heart of Georgia (FOX "News" is now tabloid gossip)
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To: Red Badger
"delcasse ?..............."

Gauche.

60 posted on 11/07/2008 1:27:45 PM PST by redhead (ALASKA; Step out of the bus, and into the food chain)
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