Tag Archives: David Frum

Catch-22s: Conservative David Frum On Where All The White People Have Gone–And Where They’re Going

One of the big riddles of the 2012 election cycle is lower white voter turnout. Why did it happen? Rush Limbaugh blames lower white voter turnout on Mitt Romney. By Limbaugh’s reckoning, Romney simply wasn’t conservative enough to fire up … Continue reading

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Contra Mitt Romney, David Frum Says Rush Limbaugh’s Sandra Fluke Verbal Acid “Not a Case of Bad ‘Word Choice'”

At CNN’s website, conservative David Frum writes what Mitt Romney should have said. Concerning the verbal acid Rush Limbaugh threw Sandra Fluke’s way, here’s David Frum: Even by the rough standards of cable/talk radio/digital talk, Limbaugh’s verbal abuse of Sandra Fluke … Continue reading

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David Frum’s Wife on the American Conservative Movement: “I’ve never seen such a hostile environment towards free thought and debate”

Danielle Crittenden, the wife of conservative David Frum, sees a serious narrowing of the intellectual range of opinion that you can safely express within contemporary American conservatism (and still remain in the fold):   We have both been part of the … Continue reading

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“Epistemic closure”: Julian Sanchez on American Conservative Insularity

At his blog today, Julian Sanchez uses the phrase “epistemic closure” to describe contemporary American “conservatism” (which I would call, in fact, a neo-authoritarian cultural movement): One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative movement is the extent to … Continue reading

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Health Care Reform Metaphor Watch: Conservative David Frum calls Sunday’s vote a Republican “Waterloo”

Conservative Republican David Frum tweeted this today: if HCR prevails, Republicans need an accountability moment. Jim DeMint/ Rush / Beck etc. ed us to Waterloo all right . Ours. Update: Health care reform prevailed. Meep, meep.

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Survival of the John Birchest: The Economic Pressures on Shout Radio to Push Ever Further to the Far Right

At conservative David Frum’s New Majority website is a fascinating article on what’s driving American “shout radio” to, well, shout even louder than usual: [I]n an interview with a talk radio trade publication, Talkers Magazine, late last year, Talk Radio … Continue reading

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Conservative David Frum Calls Out Glenn Beck of Fox News for Passing Out Conspiracy Literature to His In-Studio Audience

Conservative David Frum, of New Majority, notes that Glenn Beck (of Fox News) has been promoting ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI conspiracy theories: The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon Skousen’s Five Thousand … Continue reading

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David Frum on the Republican War on Obama

Conservative David Frum thinks the Republican party needs to start working and compromising with the Democrats, and not spend the next several years in a Rush Limbaugh-style war against all things Obama. He thinks that if the Republican party doesn’t … Continue reading

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ENVIRONMENTALISM 101: A Conservative Tries to Explain to Other Conservatives Why He’s Concerned about GLOBAL WARMING

At conservative David Frum’s NewMajority.com website, John Murdock does his best to explain why Drudge headlines and Al Gore hatred should not be the engine that drives Republican “thinking” on global warming: For hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 has … Continue reading

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Is Creeping Authoritarianism the Republican Party’s Problem?

Conservative David Frum has started a new website: NewMajority.com. It appears to be an honest, self-reflective site devoted to thinking (seriously) about how to get the Republican Party out of the political wilderness. I have long respected Frum, and his … Continue reading

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RNC Threatens David Frum for Asking, “Where’s Sarah’s Clothes?”

Conservative David Frum, of NewMajority.com is taking serious heat from the RNC for asking where Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe has ended up: The RNC repeatedly has been asked for its own version of events, but has rebuffed all questions about the location … Continue reading

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Can David Frum Lead the Republicans Out of the Wilderness?

NewMajority.com looks like something unusual in the blogosphere: a self-critical, intellectually serious, conservative website. David Frum, who is a conservative that I respect, seems to be heading the project, and says this in one of the website’s first posts: Our … Continue reading

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“A big part of Obama’s appeal is his self-command.” Conservative David Frum, at National Review Online, Tells Conservatives To Calm Down and Imitate Obama’s Sense of Proportion

From David Frum’s blog today: Republicans used negative campaigning successfully against Michael Dukakis and John Kerry, it’s true. But 1988 and 2004 were both years of economic expansion, pro-incumbent years. 2008 is like 1992, only worse. If we couldn’t beat … Continue reading

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Unwarranted Palin Belief: Conservative David Frum Suggests That If Palin Proves to Be a Plus For McCain, It Will Be the Result of Luck, NOT the Product of a Measured, Rational Decision

David Frum of National Review, on Sarah Palin the day after her 2008 Republican Convention speech: From the beginning, the internal controversy (such as it is) over Sarah Palin has been a controversy not about Palin herself, but about John … Continue reading

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