"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
I can think of other self-styled conservatives who've voiced similar disagreements. He's not the "only" one by far. But coming from the Reagan administration (as did Peggy Noonan), MSM pundits and Democrat political operatives see him as carrying some weight. We see differently...
"When liberals adopt you as their token conservative, kiss your credibility among conservatives goodbye and say hello to writing gigs at the Atlantic, appearances on Keith Olbermann's program, and lectures at the Kennedy School of Government. David Brooks, who serves as the house conservative to both PBS's News Hour and the New York Times op-ed page, could have told David Frum this. To be the liberals' favorite conservative is usually an indication of just how alienated from conservatism one really is."
I would only add that the reason this is happening is a lack of political leadership among conservatives at the national level. Into the vacuum have stepped soi-disant (sorry for the French, but it works, trust me) "conservatives", who in reality are East Coast media "Republi-pundits" who tend to look down their noses at real conservatives, frequently from 30,000 feet.
Maybe it's just a phase - he must be approaching 40.
Flynn manages to bash Rush and Bush as well...I wasn’t too impressed with this piece.
Frum and bebe buckley can take their act on the road together.
No, it makes him a neocon.
“Unstated is that the situation also presents an opportunity for a writer to land space in a mass-circulation liberal magazine by trading on his credibility as a “conservative” voice to mouth ideas soothing to the editors at that mass-circulation liberal magazine.”
Fortunately, that credibility is only good for a few pieces. The libs will continue to use it though, and Frum will be (is now) the same inside joke that is David Rodham Gergen.
David Frum was never really a conservative guy! He played one for political opportunism and now primarily is the house conservative on liberal platforms. Don’t fret for him though, chances are the pay is excellent.
To the David Frum’s of the world, credibility just don’t pay.
Frum, Noonan, Buckley, Parker, Brooks - if they'll rejoin the conservative movement when it becomes more approved by the liberals who are paying their salaries then I don't think we really need to worry about them rejoining at all.
If only those oh-so-smart "conservatives" would look at what is happening to this country by the Democrats in power instead of focusing on Rush or the "social" conservatives they want to expel, they might be an asset to the country. Instead, they are part of the problem.