David Frum: Republicans Have Been Fleeced, Exploited, and Lied To by Right Wing Media

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David Frum: Republicans Have Been Fleeced, Exploited, and Lied To by Right Wing Media

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Conservative columnist David Frum had some choice words on Morning Joe for the industry that has swelled to basically steal money from republican voters.

Republicans have been fleeced, exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex...there are too many to name. Because the followers, the donors and the activists are so mistaken about the nature of the problems the country faces...just a simple question, and I went to Tea Party rallies and asked this question, have taxes gone up or down in recent years? They can't answer this question.

Frum declined to name names but he's more forthright in his ebook, Why Romney Lost. Frum is scathing in his criticism of the usual suspects (Fox News, Rush Limbaugh & talk radio, and many many more charlatans).

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/david-frum-republicans-have-been-fleeced-ex

 

[Damn Right]

Re: David Frum: Republicans Have Been Fleeced, Exploited, and Lied To by Right Wing M

1. david frum is right

2. i hope the gop doesn't listen to him

3. obama 2016! (amend the constitution)

 

[BDR]

Re: David Frum: Republicans Have Been Fleeced, Exploited, and Lied To by Right Wing M

1. david frum is right

2. i hope the gop doesn't listen to him

3. obama 2016! (amend the constitution)

3. Pulling a Bloomberg Lmaoooo

He should have called out Joe Scarborough dumb ass too

 

[UnderDogg]

Re: David Frum: Republicans Have Been Fleeced, Exploited, and Lied To by Right Wing M

He should have called out Joe Scarborough dumb ass too

^^^^^ This...

Joe, himself, last week was proudly displaying a poll (clearly an outlier) that had Rmoney up 6 in Florida. How can he sit up there with a straight face and pretend like he wasn't in on it too?

 

[woodchuck]

Re: David Frum: Republicans Have Been Fleeced, Exploited, and Lied To by Right Wing M

^^^^^ This...

Joe, himself, last week was proudly displaying a poll (clearly an outlier) that had Rmoney up 6 in Florida. How can he sit up there with a straight face and pretend like he wasn't in on it too?

It's funny, because after the ass thrashing, he was saying how these wacko radio talk show hosts were ruining the party. You know how bad it got? They were calling Hannity a "leader" in the GOP.

 

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It's funny, because after the ass thrashing, he was saying how these wacko radio talk show hosts were ruining the party. You know how bad it got? They were calling Hannity a "leader" in the GOP.

Although Frum and Joe are peas in a pod, for Frum to pretend hes not part of that milk the dumb conservative crowd is a tad much. Ive always had a saying "if a conservative was smart, they wouldnt be conservative."

But now that Republicans have lost as much as they can, Its time to stop Philadelphians and neighborhood surburbs to stop this Libertarian freight train thats trying to make a stop in this area. Nothing worse like racists trying to shape-shift right in front of your eyes.

 

[code_pirahna]

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3. Pulling a Bloomberg Lmaoooo

He should have called out Joe Scarborough dumb ass too

This....cause Scarborough has been full of it for a while....

the dumbasses in West Virginia and the poor white trash in middle America need to be told the hard truth....

so that maybe they will see that they are going against their own interest.....

but no...they listen to Fox...and believe the bullshit....

and then Tuesday happens and they got that I just got my house broken into look on their face...

no...you left the door wide open lying to yourself saying that it was locked...

 

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Re: David Frum: Republicans Have Been Fleeced, Exploited, and Lied To by Right Wing M

Although Frum and Joe are peas in a pod, for Frum to pretend hes not part of that milk the dumb conservative crowd is a tad much. Ive always had a saying "if a conservative was smart, they wouldnt be conservative."

But now that Republicans have lost as much as they can, Its time to stop Philadelphians and neighborhood surburbs to stop this Libertarian freight train thats trying to make a stop in this area. Nothing worse like racists trying to shape-shift right in front of your eyes.

Frum has been saying this stuff for quite awhile now. If memory serves correctly, he's been talking like this quietly since the '04 election. The Right was telling him that he needed to kick rocks and go back to Canada after they ignored his warnings prior to the '06 mid-terms.

January 6, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/m...90&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

As a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former speechwriter for President Bush, you’re surprisingly critical of him in your new book, claiming he has appointed “consistently mediocre people” to important jobs and made “a shambles” of the Iraq war. Do you see the book as a mea culpa? No. Mea culpa is a kind of hand-wringing, breast-beating, woe-is-me attitude that I don’t share. What I am saying is that there is exhaustion, intellectual exhaustion on the part of Republicans and conservatives.


Joshua Roberts
And that their long winning streak in Congress has ended? What I am terrified of is that the Republican Party is heading into a period of political defeat. We lost the election in 2006. I am terrified that we can lose the election in 2008. We can lose in 2012, and it will take us half a dozen years to do the rethinking we need to do.

That is the theme of your new book, “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again,” in which you propose that Republicans line up behind timelier issues — like a carbon tax to encourage innovation in clean power. I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. Republicans must respond to that.

Why are you so tough on Laurie David in your book, accusing her of “environmental hypocrisy” because she travels by private jet? We are all terribly sensitive when a politician preaches one version of sexual morality and practices another. Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

Whom do you support for president in 2008? I’m a senior policy adviser to Rudy Giuliani.

What are you advising him to do? For that I signed a nondisclosure agreement.

You’ve been called Mr. Axis of Evil, in reference to a phrase you coined for President Bush during your speechwriting days. I collaborated on the phrase “axis of evil.”

How many speechwriters do you need to come up with a three-word phrase? I wrote the first draft of what became that section of the 2002 State of the Union address and referred to terrorist groups and extremist governments as forming an “axis of hatred.” In the revision process, my colleagues altered that phrase to “axis of evil.”

How did you, as a native Canadian, end up working in the White House? The same papers that allow you to work at Taco Bell allow you to work at the White House. I filed my naturalization papers after 9/11 and took the oath for citizenship on Sept. 11, 2007.

Your mother, Barbara Frum, was a well-known Canadian journalist and broadcaster for the CBC whose politics were left of center. What did she think of your views? She certainly didn’t agree with my politics. But her example is one of my profoundest inspirations. My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

I see there’s a Barbara Frum Library in Toronto. Isn’t it unusual for a public library to be named after a journalist? The building was donated by my father to the city, as part of a redevelopment project he was undertaking. The city proposed to name it after my mother. She was on a postage stamp too.

How did that happen? Don’t tell me your Dad donated a post office to Toronto? No. My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? I usually make them at Rosh Hashana. This year: not to be pessimistic.

But you’re fairly pessimistic about the state of the Republican Party. I didn’t say I always keep my resolutions.

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August 29, 2008

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2VhOWE0N2VkOWI3MDdlODRlZWE4ODljMDc2NjliZDk=

Palin
The longer I think about it, the less well this selection sits with me. And I increasingly doubt that it will prove good politics. The Palin choice looks cynical. The wires are showing.

John McCain wanted a woman: good.

He wanted to keep conservatives and pro-lifers happy: naturally.

He wanted someone who looked young and dynamic: smart.

And he discovered that he could not reconcile all these imperatives with the stated goal of finding a running mate qualified to assume the duties of the presidency "on day one."

Sarah Palin may well have concealed inner reservoirs of greatness. I hope so! But I'd guess that John McCain does not have a much better sense of who she is, what she believes, and the extent of her abilities than my enthusiastic friends over at the Corner. It's a wild gamble, undertaken by our oldest ever first-time candidate for president in hopes of changing the board of this election campaign. Maybe it will work. But maybe (and at least as likely) it will reinforce a theme that I'd be pounding home if I were the Obama campaign: that it's John McCain for all his white hair who represents the risky choice, while it is Barack Obama who offers cautious, steady, predictable governance.

Here's I fear the worst harm that may be done by this selection. The McCain campaign's slogan is "country first." It's a good slogan, and it aptly describes John McCain, one of the most self-sacrificing, gallant, and honorable men ever to seek the presidency.

But question: If it were your decision, and you were putting your country first, would you put an untested small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?