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 ...
A piece of excrement.
“College-educated Americans have come to believe that their money is safe with Democrats”
No, they do not. In fact, other than liberal art majors the rest of us vote Republican because we know how hard it is to earn a good living and want to keep our money. Only stupid or ignorant people believe they will get freebies from the Democrats.
Lorraine X is your source of authority?
This is nothing new. He was saying this during GWB’s first term. “We don’t need you any more.” That was the attitude.
They have Christophobia, and react to Sarah Palin like a vampire reacts to a crucifix...
Frum, yet another hopeless minion of the Beltway Bolsheviks.
“Why not just purge the RINOs and take over the GOP?”
Yes, why not? I’m in.
del casse = (Italian for) of the boxes
He got his tame, worthless RINO butt good and righteously kicked by a one-term Senate Marxist, with open and unapologetic terrorist ties.
I don't even wanna hear Word One out of those go-along-to-get-along RNC losers for at LEAST the next two, maybe three electoral cycles.
David Frum - “God is dead.”
God - “David Frum’s career is dead.”
I am going with God on this one!
Moved and seconded.
The disadvantage is that the “brand” is quite tarnished right now.
> No, but with faux conservatives from other countries who like to tell Americans who to vote for.
Fair enough... carry on.
Because the "Republican" brand has been forever tainted and vilified by the "Change" agents. This election was a repudiation of the GOP on national, state and local levels.
Obviously the brilliance of our GOP masters blinded them to the signals sent out in 2006. So, they just kept on doing the same old stuff, while allowing the Dems to completely outmaneuver them at every turn.
A Congress with a 9% approval rating got re-elected and the Dems expanded their gains!!!!!!!
We need to start over so we don't have any holdovers dragging us down.
The dumbed down electorate wants something new. So let's give them old truths packaged in a new way.
“College-educated Americans have come to believe that their money is safe with Democrats—but their values are under threat from Republicans.”
I see.
And Frum’s conservatism has not informed him that precisely that “college-educated” factor may in fact be the error, and not his conservative friends, because last I checked that factor ranged from liberal to progressive to Marxist, with barely a hint of conservatism at work.
Or, is Frum uneducated about our education establishment???
Frum, whoever the hell he is, is a perfect example of WHY the Republican Party is in a shambles.
If somebody likes liberalism, they aren’t going to vote for a poor clone. They will go for the real thing - the Democrats.
If somebody is conservative, they need a party to go to, and so far, the Republican Party has been it.
If somebody is an independent, they are up for grabs by either side and conservaties have to work as hard and as ingeniously and imgainatively as the Demcorats to get their support and block the other party.
Wow, I didn’t realise David Frum was such a POS.
Neither could Andrew Sullivan.
If he hates American conservatism so much Frum should hie himself back to Toronto or Tel Aviv.
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