Now David Frum, a prominent conservative writer who enmeshed himself in a minor dustup during the campaign by turning negative on Governor Palin, is leaving, too. In an interview, he said he planned to leave the magazine, where he writes a popular blog, to strike out on his own on the Web.
“The answers to the Republican dilemma are not obvious and we need a vibrant discussion,” he said. “I think a little more distance can help everybody do a better job of keeping their temper.”…
Mr. Frum said deciding to leave was amicable, but distancing himself from the magazine founded by his idol, Mr. Buckley, was not a hard decision. He said the controversy over Governor Palin’s nomination for vice president was “symbolic of a lot of differences” between his views and those of National Review’s.
“I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated,” he said.
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Wait til you see what the candidate of the “young and educated” does to this country, you moron
I bet the Frums of the 70s were calling Reagan a stupid actor.
lodge on November 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM
DLTDHYONWO. Loser.
Ceroth on November 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM
That should be a T not an N. DLTDHYOTWO,
Ceroth on November 17, 2008 at 10:11 AM
NRO has gone off the deep end on socialcon stuff, and has gotten pretty grating. Terry Schiavo, abortion, gay marriage – sheesh.
Hating on NR doesn’t mean you have to love on Obama – it’s not an either/or. Of course, Bob Barr is not that appealing either
BJ* on November 17, 2008 at 10:11 AM
What took so long?
jencab on November 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM
If the Democratic caucus is (probably) big enough for Joe Lieberman, surely NRO can accommodate someone who didn’t like Gov. Palin.
YYZ on November 17, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Exactly!
It’s not just NRO, BJ.
We Social Cons in the GOP feel that being pro-Life (which would include Terry Schiavo who was starved and forcibly dehydrated because she couldn’t fight off her husband) and for the preservation of the traditional family and and traditional marriage are things worth fighting for.
Apparently, you and Frum don’t think so–too bad.
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Good.
A couple more and I might have to renew my subscription.
reaganaut on November 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Yeah, they have this silly idea that men are endowed with their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these is Life.
Goodness knows where they got that.
Gina on November 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM
In Frum’s case, a lot of distance will help more.
NRO needs an overhaul. Now if they can slap some sense into J Goldberg and get KJ Lopez to keep her religion out of politics, we’ll see some progress.
MrScribbler on November 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Mark Steyn is pretty much the only good writer at National Review.
I’m not saying that a policy of hiring only high-school dropouts would vastly improve the quality of writing at every publication in the country. But it sure as Hell couldn’t hurt.
logis on November 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM
pleez edjamakate us’ns mistar frum
Jim Treacher on November 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM
memo to Frum: simple answer to the “why” of this: Marxism is taught for a whole generation now frok K-12, and advanced Marxism is taught in College. Secular Humanism is then popularized through hollywood(a place the Soviets targeted for a reason).
the answer to Conservatism is not appealing to marxism.
jp on November 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM
I suspect NRO was getting pressured by their readership.
Free market at work?
artist on November 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Frum seems to think that the young and the educated vote is locked into the Democrats forever, unless they follow his advice. Of course, 32 years ago, the young and the educated vote was locked in forever to the Democrats following Watergate, and the win by Jimmy Carter and an overwhelming majority in Congress, and we know how that turned out.
If Obama and the current Congress screw up as bad as Carter did, Frum thinks the young and the educated are going to do what? Keep voting the same people into office again and again? Conservative Republicans do need to formulate a positive alternative message to present to voters for 2010 and 2012, but Frum just seems miffed that the NR staff and others on the right aren’t following his message, which seems to be rebuilt the movement around vetted wonks and avoid flashy “uneducated” people like Palin.
jon1979 on November 17, 2008 at 10:23 AM
And the collapse in support has something to do with the ineptness of your former boss, President Bush
lodge on November 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM
FIFY.
Gina on November 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM
eh, they still have parker so they’re still off my list — but it’s a START …
Buckaroo on November 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM
+1
NRO has an interview up with Thomas Sowell that is good. They talk about how with the rise of Education(our brand of marxist education) we’ve had a decline in Common Sense. His next book is on this apparently.
we need to get back to more “Classical Education” being taught. which teaches people “how to think” instead of “What to think”, with that would come Classical Liberalism.
jp on November 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Come on now, VDH is top notch. There are plenty of other good writers at NR/NRO.
reaganaut on November 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM
President Bush wasn’t all that inept and I’m sick to death of people saying so!
As for Bush and Frum, Frum has hated President Bush since he fired Frum for blabbing about coining the phrase “axis of evil.”
A further note: Frum is Canadian and probably not even a U.S. citizen who can vote here.
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Why would he stay at NR when he can go write at a daily and be the “conservative” and rip on other conservatives?
jacrews on November 17, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Frum thinks that the Republican Party should become Democrat-lite, which makes no sense. If the public wants that sort of public goods, why not just vote for the Democrat party?
Also, I guess by educated Frum means people who went to Harvard with him. Us dumb hicks that went to state schools don’t count. In fact, Frum is surprised that we even know how to use proper grammer.
Illinidiva on November 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM
No, the answers are obvious and we don’t need discussion we need action from politicians who have spines and won’t back down.
darwin on November 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM
“Bush Fatigue” is really “MSM liberal bias and Hackery Fatigue”. Thats the big problem for the GOP, the MSM has gone to a new level of partsianship/lying for the Dems under Bush.
jp on November 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Is Kathleen Parker getting the boot too? Please tell me yes.
I don’t think, Mr. Frum, that conservatism has a problem with the educated as much as it does the indoctrinated. Educated people think critically. Indoctrinated people sign their names “Ph.D.”
BKennedy on November 17, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Hope he enjoys his brief stint on The Colbert Report/The Daily Show. Note to Frum: Cocktail party invitations not inlcuded, see your local leftist elite country club for details.
TheUnrepentantGeek on November 17, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Awesome. All the RINO’s are free to leave. In fact, when do Parker and Noonan get their invitations to exit?
JustTruth101 on November 17, 2008 at 10:30 AM
If you ignore a 11trillion dollar national debt, amnesty and Iraq.
lodge on November 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM
F*ck David Frum.
Sorry, that was coarse and vulgar.
Buckley the Elder would not approve.
pseudonominus on November 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM
I say make Mark Steyn Editor
jp on November 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Oh yes, they were. There was just as big a split within the Republican Party after the 1976 election as there is now, and just as much backbiting about why the election was lost. But in that case, as well as this one, the people simply wanted to punish Republicans for a corrupt Administration and a bad economy.
Don’t forget, either, that George H.W. Bush made a strong run for the presidency in 1980. He won the Iowa caucuses and was on his way to winning New Hampshire when Reagan pulled the “I paid for this microphone” thing and electrified the voters there. Reagan fired his campaign manager and several top staffers. Bush had a lot of the commentariat on his side.
But the tough primary battle made Reagan stronger and better able to articulate his message in the general election. And he unified the party by picking Bush as his running mate. My biggest fear is that conservatives have gotten so used to dictating everything in the party that they will not tolerate such a unity ticket in the future.
rockmom on November 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Frum is one of my least favorite writers at NR. Not so much his views, but style. Never met the man but I picture him as one hell of an arrogant jerk.
angryed on November 17, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Grammer? Please tell me you were being sarcastic.
angryed on November 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Maybe this shows how insulated the journalists were, they could write whatever they wanted and were never held accountable.
To use Parker as an example, is testimony to that belief. She just arbitrarily attacked someone she had no contact with, never talked to her, never interviewed her, she just decided she didn’t like Palin…then tried to support that dislike with “personal” information and attacks. Parker was called out on it, and buckled; just like Frum.
All you have to do is support your beliefs with facts.
Okay Parker.Frum, who said this next quote:
That’s right, Palin…and Hillary…and Obama….and Biden…and Bush…and Huck…and Edwards…and Kerry…and Romney…almost every politician has used those same words, and those are the words you choose to condemn Palin with.
Well, Frum, you picked a dandy to use as an example.
You can’t hide behind a typewriter anymore…we are watching.
right2bright on November 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Addition by subtraction.
They were.
thirteen28 on November 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM
No… just early in the morning. I guess I provide his point.
Illinidiva on November 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Kathleen Parker needs to take a hike too.
CP on November 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM
A quote from Frum:
Nothing about Obama’s lack of experience…little more then 100 days in office, if Obama serves out his term it will be the longest he has ever held a job….
Yeah Frum, we are watching…
right2bright on November 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM
P
‘Scuse me, but Congress passes spending bills and budgets, not the President.
As for spending money on Iraq and the war, it’s worth every penny.
And there’s no amnesty.
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM
After the election, Andrew Stuttaford at NRO said that in order to keep competitive with young voters, conservatives should come out in favor of gay marriage. He was advocating dropping the defense of the institution of marriage (despite the success of such endeavors) because he thinks young people don’t agree with it.
NRO is full of morons. I was sick of their groveling at Obama after he won. They couldn’t kiss his ass quickly enough over the “historic” nature of it all. NRO doesn’t celebrate social conservativism because they’re full of belyway latte-sucking liberal elites.
Sydney Carton on November 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Gore Vidal begs to differ (I’m not a crypto-Nazi, but you are, I suppose, a f*&^%t).
Or that was brilliant sarcasm, one of the two.
BKennedy on November 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM
You confuse grammar with intellect…or you confuse a misspelling with intellect. That is like saying if you catch a mathematician making a mistake in adding, or if a musician plays the wrong note, neither one should be in their trade?
sum of the dumbest peple I no are the smartist…an you pruv that sum of the “smartist” are the most stupid.
right2bright on November 17, 2008 at 10:44 AM
The President has a veto pen, doesn’t he.
And maybe Iraq would be worth it if Saddam had nukes. I personally don’t think 4000 American soldiers lives are worth promoting democracy in the desert.
lodge on November 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM
But not a line item veto…so he vetoes a bill for veteran health care, but it has 6 pork bills attached.
That is where you need a President to stand and deliver that message.
However, the real problem with the war, is that for Bush to get the support he needed, he had to allow these huge bills to pass through without veto.
right2bright on November 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM
I see K-Lo’s got an excellent article up on Palin.
Gina on November 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Hallelujah. I always hated that idiot. He’s been dining out on his “Axis of Evil” fame long enough.
ramrocks on November 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM
1 down 2 to Go!
Amadeus on November 17, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Nope… I was just laughing at myself and the fact that I just accidentally made a mistake while proving it. I agree with your assertion completely. We all have slip-ups on that point.
What I was really trying to point out is that Frum’s idea of educated are people who went to Ivy League schools. There are quite a few non-coastal elites who might have been educated at state schools or smaller private schools and might be more open to the Republican party.
Illinidiva on November 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM
I was discussing this with a fellow depressed conservative this past weekend. He lives in suburban DC; I live in a fairly coservative & evangelical part of central Florida. We’re both in our mid-forties. Our common experience is that twenty-somethings seem much more against abortion (also divorce) than we remember people being in our twenties. They are also much more stridently pro-gay. I note even among college-aged churchgoers there is a feeling that gay marriage is OK for the government to approve — as long as they don’t force churches to follow.
I call this cognitive dissonance, but there you have it.
Anton on November 17, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Aye…
My first thoughts exactly. Now Frum can go makes lots of money ripping us “Social Cons” to shreds! Yea!
Good Riddance….
Dritanian on November 17, 2008 at 11:07 AM
…which he’s used more than once on Dem pork-laden bills.
The problem wasn’t just that Saddam had nukes: he had other WMDS, too.
And we were worried about his collaboration with Al Queda.
He was in violation of 16 U.N. resolutions.
He broke the peace of the 1991 war and fired on Allied planes in the no-fly zone almost every day.
We would NEVER had known he did not have nukes without going into Iraq.
Etc.etc.
Really, troll, must I go through the whole list of causus belli for the Iraq war with you Lefties again?
Those 4,000 brave soldiers didn’t die to “promote democracy in the desert” and personally, I find it disgusting that you would denigrate their sacrifice by saying so!
They died–God rest them–by laying down their lives to protect our security, safety and freedom here at home by fighting the bad guys over there.
(Democracy for the Iraqis was a bug not a feature, in this case.)
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 11:07 AM
I don’t think we should be going to war to enforce UN resolutions but I suppose I’m a troll for no worshipping at the altar of the UN, right?
lodge on November 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM
I think that is the core of Frum’s defection, Buckley’s defection, and several others. By temperament and educational background, Obama is One Of Us, and Palin definitely isn’t One Of Us. There is a natural ruling elite in this country (read David Brooks’ columns), as determined by the admissions committees of Harvard, Yale, and a handful of other schools. People like Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin, who went to noname schools, clearly don’t qualify.
The fact that the current financial mess was largely caused by One Of Us (Barney Frank – Harvard Law, Franklin Raines – Harvard College, Harvard Law, Rhodes Scholar, etc.), doesn’t change their view, anymore than the Vietnam War did (also instigated by the Nation’s Elite).
Iowahawk points this out most amusingly.
Realist on November 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM
National Review is also a BUSINESS, and businesses that want to succeed in America have to maintain some basic respect for their customers. Chris Buckley–not a chip off the old block–didn’t.
RBMN on November 17, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Video of Frum at home.
CanadianGuy on November 17, 2008 at 11:16 AM
I think Frum will find out from the traffic to his own web site how shallow support is for an elitist liberal-lite Republican approach.
Clark1 on November 17, 2008 at 11:20 AM
OT:
is anybody else tire of Glenn Beck?
geez … between hawking his book and whining about EVERYTHING he has become almost unable to listen to
joey24007 on November 17, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Does anyone really believe this;
Weisberg needs to get his head out of his a$$…
Dritanian on November 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Wow.
So if no one goes to a private or elite school, has money, has more then 2.5 children, is religous in some way and is not “middle of the road”, they do not qualify or enbody America. Someone tell me when only the Rich and Famous were the only ones who counted for a vote?
NRO has become a huffpo for conservatives anymore. And this guy leaving isn’t going to help NRO or himself. I sure as heck won’t follow him.
I am not sheeple.
upinak on November 17, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Good riddance, Frum.
We tried “Democrat lite” in the last election and that got us a socialist who pals around with terrorists. Yes, that worked out well for us, didn’t it?
Most young people who work become conservative rapidly when life starts kicking them in the teeth. Who remembers the first time you worked as a young adult and then did your taxes? I’ll never forget.
We must present a strong conservatism when the next election comes around. That means kicking the Frums, Parkers, Noonans and Derbyshires to the curb. If National Review insists on being the Democrat-lite, country club Republican of old, they will sink into the tar pits right next to the New York Times.
bonnie_ on November 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM
I can’t tell you how many “conservative” (and liberal) pieces I’ve read post-Palin bemoaning “the death of the intellectual” or the “vulgarization of politics”. I don’t get how they don’t get how nearly every political problem in America today has an Ivy League architect behind it, and therefore intelligensia membership does not nesscessarily= good policy.
Palin’s popular because she’s armed with common sense and is not afraid to use it, something sorely missing right now. She is very smart and a “voracious” reader, I read, but because she values common sense over pseudo-intellectualism, they have to destroy her. Very sad.
Pasalubong on November 17, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Halp us Dave From we r stuk here in the GOP!
CK MacLeod on November 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Don’t forget to burn the bridge on your way out.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM
The left is allowed to define who we are with the help of the MSM and HA.
Blake on November 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Don’t eat him grue… might give you a stomach ache.
upinak on November 17, 2008 at 11:35 AM
I suspect “strike out” will be the inevitable result. Enjoy your imminent descent into obscurity, David. You won’t be missed.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Even cooked? Bleh, probably not worth risking it…
*lurks*
Grue in the Attic on November 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM
In a way, I’m particularly glad. The laser-sharp brilliance of David Frum was so enlightening and edumacating that my feeble mind, loaded down with non-Ivy league konservatism, always started to hurt from all the learning.
It was getting to be a bit much.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Once meat has gone bad, cooking it won’t help.
Let teh feral cats have him.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 11:40 AM
See: Encapsulated cultural marginality
Christien on November 17, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Two birds with one stone?
*lurks*
Grue in the Attic on November 17, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Did I miss something? What did David Frum do?
terryannonline on November 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Well, I don’t know, but she isn’t listed on NRO’s search page, either under the heading “NRO Authors” or “Syndicated CColumnists” so her proper shunning may be at hand, too. One can only hope.
I only wish I could see the looks on the faces of Frum, Parker and Noonan when it finally dawns on them that their useful idiocy has ceased being of value.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM
He shills for the kind of conservatism that gave us John McCain as our standard bearer, and then when it mattered he swooned over Barack Obama whilst crapping on Governor Sarah Palin.
He has made himself beyond useless except as an intellectual spoiler to the benefit of the Left. NRO is well rid of him.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 11:53 AM
It really has been amazing. These parasites spend their time rummaging around in Governor Palin’s garbage and questioning whether or not she’s really her baby’s mother, yet she’s the vulgar embarrassing one because she didn’t genuflect before the New York Times, knows how to fire a gun and declined to abort her Down Syndrome baby.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM
If I’m not mistake he was not as critical of Palin as Kathleen Parker. I have no problem with people who were critical with Palin. However, I think Parker crossed the line. I’m not sure Frum did. He even defended Palin a few times.
terryannonline on November 17, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Aha! You changed your “argument” from no nukes to enforcing U.N. resolutions….
*bzzzt*
Busted.
That’s what makes you a troll.
We went to war to prevent Saddam from getting and using nukes, to enforce U.N. resolutions and for the other reasons cited, as well as some that I didn’t cite.
(Why do I even bother? You know as well as I do that the Iraq front in the WOT was more than amply justified.)
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 12:03 PM
*raises hand*
I am and you’re right.
I only listen to hear his “Argument with Idiots” featuring the hilarious Pat Gray.
His newly slotted TV show on Fox News should be interesting, though.
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM
In my opinion he crossed the line with Governor Palin when he told the New York Times that “I think she has pretty thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States” one month out from the election.
But even more generally Frum has crossed the line with conservatism itself. Look at how he can’t even resign without giving the Left juicy gossip with which to undermine both National Review and conservatism’s social concerns.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Actually, no. Those are just two reasons I oppose the war. I added the UN reason because you explained you supported the war partly because your masters at the UN ordered you to.
lodge on November 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM
I find myself in the bizarre position of asking other HotAir hotheads what, precisely, they disagree with in Frum’s published comments?
I don’t disagree with anything he saidl, although I was not a critic of the choice of Sarah Palin for McCain. But I, too, am “really and truly frightened” by the failure of bright young people to see value in the GOP, and instead opt for the intellectual and moral void that is the Democrat party.
Aren’t you?
Jaibones on November 17, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Also “unhelpful” was a recent column in which he called for a transformation of the Republican Party that would leave “little room for Sarah Palin.”
It’s one thing to fight within the party or conservative movement for a change of direction or emphasis. It’s another to stage one public assault after another on the movement’s most popular figure, implying that we have to make a choice between him or her.
Not a difficult one.
CK MacLeod on November 17, 2008 at 12:36 PM
I am; I just don’t think David Frum will be of any use winning them over.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Criticism can be very healthy. Debate is the lifesblood of a democratic society. My concern is with what appears to be overt snobbery, where Palin’s dialect and her mannerisms are cited as evidence of a more fundamental, existential incapacitation. How can anyone say what Obama’s “knowledgeability” is, given that he has been so seldom pressed to explain the issues in any serious way? I’m suspicious when politicians and pundits alike pontificate ad nauseum about “middle class” values and about the needs and wants of “working people”, but appear to harbor a fundamental contempt for these very people. Rather than the “big tent” its “guess who’s coming to dinner?” Now we hear that bloggers and emails from the common folk are lowering the level of civil discourse at the NRO. Please come down from your ivory towers and mingle with the masses for a while: it may be frightening at first, but it can be ever so rewarding.
littleguy on November 17, 2008 at 1:14 PM
In response to Frum’s assertion that Sarah Palin has “proved” herself unfit for the presidency, I’ll just say that I’d rather she were President-Elect today than anyone in Washington.
Anyone.
Kensington on November 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM
It might be nice if people extend such leeway to President Nucular or Gaffemaster Biden. Do we really think those slips and flubs define their congitive capacity?
The Race Card on November 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Frum condescendingly sneered that Palin was incapable of speaking three consecutive coherent words on complex topics such as economics and finance. That kind of snobbery is over the line enough for me.
It goes beyond that as well, Frum is another so-called conservative that believes we should just become the Democrat-lite party. Example: He’s against more drilling, and thinks for an energy policy, we need a carbon tax as well as a tax for every dollar oil falls below $65/barrell in order to enforce conservation. Notwithstanding the fact that such a policy would be a complete failure and crippling to our economy, his knee-jerk willingness to use taxes for purposes such as this betrays him as someone who is not really all that conservative, if at all.
thirteen28 on November 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM
As I pointed out, both of those reasons are spurious.
Saddam was going to ramp up him nuclear program after UNSCOM (not my U.N. masters, BTW) dropped the sanctions–which they would have done while the “Oil for Food” scam was going on.
As for Saddam’s 16 flagrant violations of those U.N. resolutions, that was the global sanction for force to be used, by the U.S. in conjunction with over 30 allies, as it turned out.
Saddam wasn’t going to disarm–and he never did account for the chemical and biological weapons we all know that he had–and the only way to do that was by force.
In addition, there was enough evidence to indicate that he had a working jihad relationship with AQ.
After 9/11, these were sufficient reasons for us to go into Iraq to effect regime change.
And anyone who says differently is a liar.
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 2:15 PM
lodge, why do you trolls insist on covering this same ground over and over and over???
Making sure NObama has political cover to pull the troops out of Iraq?
Jenfidel on November 17, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Lodge, lodge, lodge, lodge, lodge! The Iraq war was and is justified. Like all wars run by politicians, it was managed poorly, very poorly. I blame that on the democrats.
Vince on November 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM
If they fall for the intellectual and moral void that is the Democrat party, they can’t be that bright. They’re acting according to peer acceptance and pressure, not intellect.
As others said above, I expect that Frum is striking out on his own into obscurity, except when the WaPo or NYT needs to use one of his statements to slapdown conservatives.
INC on November 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM
The young were not educated like you were, Mr. Frum. I wonder why.
spmat on November 17, 2008 at 10:16 PM
I’m sure that Frum would complain about many of us stoopid conservatives here at Hot Air. Sure, I’ve a got a master’s degree and all, but it’s not from the right school. And my 3 children are a sure sign that I’m a slackjawed, inbred, cousin’ humpin’ sign of everything that’s wrong with the GOP. Of course, it’s entirely possible that Frum is part and parcel of a group of self-styled elitists (they aren’t- they’re establishment) who just know what’s best for us. And darn it, we’d better start listening to people like Frum.
On the other hand, we could let his sorry pompous arse go, while shedding nary a tear. What to do, what to do? I know: I’ll opt for what’s behind door #2.
Physics Geek on November 18, 2008 at 8:06 AM