Dear David Frum


I know you’re working hard to modernize the Republican party and all the while keeping your boot thumb on the pulse of the conservative movement..but we haven’t been RedState.org in years.

We’ll be over here with the icky Palin people, trying to actually get folks elected. I’m sure when we do, they’ll need a fancy speechwriter or two to polish them up and make them presentable, so there’s hope yet.

kthxsbye.


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Ya know...

clement Saturday, August 15th at 9:35PM EST (link)

If you guys never linked to him, nobody would ever read what he writes. (Yes, even less than what he has now)

I bet most of his unique hits are from bloggers/pundits.

We actually don't, much.

Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, August 15th at 11:29PM EST (link)

But the dot-org thing is sort of a tell. Useful, too.

 
 

Frum's success is based on GOP losses, and as he watches Obama sink

spainishirish (Diary) Saturday, August 15th at 10:08PM EST (link)

he goes into full panic mode.

In a narrow, free market sense, I actually respect his decision to try to ride his market up. Others, who already have smelled the blood and bailed, not so much.

Frum will be a bitter little man surrounded by a few other bitter little men decrying the next GOP victory–likely in 2010–as undeserved. He’s pathetic, as is what passes for his tiny audience.

We need to make certain that our party leaders understand the importance that these folks remain marginalized in times of victory as well as in times of defeat. I intend to impress that fact on them

Good post, Mike.

 

Mr Frum seems to think he still matters

Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, August 15th at 11:53PM EST (link)

He’s a product of the past that we don’t need. When it comes to constructive conservatism, we are it. We’re on the front lines and he is a road block.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

Leave Frum alone

RedBeard Sunday, August 16th at 12:00AM EST (link)

His angst is fully understandable. He probably wrote that piece while sitting in the gilded library of the Lindsey Graham Republican Club, just after learning the tragic news that the club had run out of Merlot.

Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.

Can't get in, either, eh?

Adjoran (Diary) Sunday, August 16th at 12:59AM EST (link)

But at least I have enough juice to learn that no red wines are permitted at the LGRC, only French whites and champagnes and certified French cheeses. Of course, if John McCain develops the urge for a Tab™, Lindsey will fetch it for him while he’s picking up McCain’s dry cleaning.

Which reminds me of some old jokes from my years in Virginia, which still ring true:

How many Richmonders does it take to change a light bulb? 10 – one to change it while 9 stand around and reminisce about how much better the old bulb was.

How many Northern Virginians does it take to change a light bulb? 10 – all of whom stand around sipping white wine and nibbling brie cheese and complaining about how the legislature in Richmond just doesn’t understand the unique problems faced in changing light bulbs in Northern Virginia (the DC electrician they call to actually change the bulb doesn’t count).

:-D

Elitism is such fun.

RedBeard Sunday, August 16th at 11:59AM EST (link)

Not to participate in, but to poke fun at.

The sentence structure above is bait for Frum or any other lonely elitist who needs to fill his otherwise empty life. As for me, I prefer real people. Iif anyone needs me, I’ll be hanging out with the guys down at the Moose Jaw Inn, or perhaps enjoying a cold one with the other bikers at Mojo’s Hog Pen.

Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.

 
 
 

Frum's sublime level of cluelessness

Adjoran (Diary) Sunday, August 16th at 12:48AM EST (link)

The boy couldn’t find his own asp with both hands, a map, a flashlight, and a 30-minute head start.

 

Powerline described David Frum perfectly the other day

smagar (Diary) Sunday, August 16th at 1:16AM EST (link)

..a conservative trying to win the approval of liberals—and paychecks from the MSM—by talking poorly of other conservatives.

Well, actually, Powerline was writing about David Brooks at the time, but the shoe fits Frum, too. And Kathleen Parker.

Come to think of it, I saw Frum on CNN the other day. Maybe he’s angling to replace David Gergen as the token “conservative” on Ted’s network.

“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)

Soft Conservative Frum...

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, August 16th at 1:59AM EST (link)

or just Scum for short

 

Could have been talking about John McCain, Lindsey Graham, et al as well - nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, August 16th at 9:08AM EST (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

 

None of these buffoons is a conservative

peg_c (Diary) Sunday, August 16th at 12:25PM EST (link)

the way I, Levin, Mark and many here at RedState define the word.

How many of us read anything by Frum (or Brooks, Parker, or the other Useful Idiots) even when we come across links and excerpts? I don’t, anymore than I read anything by Mr. Trig Troofer Sullivan.

Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.

That should read "I, Levin, Rush" etc.

peg_c (Diary) Sunday, August 16th at 12:26PM EST (link)

n/t

Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.