Monday, November 9, 2009

The Green Room's Doctor Zeroes In On Pompous David Frum

In the Green Room at Hot Air, Doctor Zero, scalpel in hand, shows that he knows how to use it to slice and dice Vichy Republican David Frum:
Writing on his website, which used to be called “New Majority” until he got tired of people laughing at him, David Frum published an essay called “The Palin Fantasy” over the weekend. Even as the House of Representatives was preparing to pass the most blatantly unconstitutional assault on America’s freedom in Congressional history, Frum found something really outrageous to write about: Matthew Continetti’s admiring essay on Sarah Palin’s populist appeal. It’s a good thing Frum has his priorities in order. We wouldn’t want Palin to get into office and drop a few trillion dollars of unsustainable debt on us.

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Another of Palin’s qualifications is her relationship with her supporters. Contrary to the usual lazy dismissal, they’re not brimming with the kind of blind faith that put Barack Obama in office. Of course they like her. I’d be tempted to say every major politician is well-liked by their supporters, but I haven’t been able to forget about John Kerry yet. I’ve read a lot of blog posts and comments from enthusiastic Palin supporters, and they generally don’t strike me as hypnotized by the glory of her inevitable victory. They like what she says, they like her personally, and they take every opportunity to encourage her to run for office. Dismissing the ability to inspire such respect and affection as a liability is remarkably wrong-headed.

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Palin’s qualifications are not merely academic. She’s been a lonely pair of boots on the ground, in conflicts where most of her presumptive rivals have been content to either sit on the sidelines or follow her lead. She’s demonstrated a willingness to take risks, and stand her ground under fire. Those are qualities Republican voters will be looking for, if they want a President who can do more than just negotiate lower monthly payments on the lethally overdrawn American Distress card.

The mocking dismissal of Palin as a pity fetish for her faithful worshipers has it exactly backward. Many of her strident critics enjoy using her as a voodoo doll to insult her supporters. They’re the real targets of accommodating “moderates” hoping to be chosen as valets to a permanent socialist ruling class. They’re the reason David Frum perches on his dreary web site, furiously scribbling equations that prove they don’t exist. Behind the endless nattering about Sarah Palin’s qualifications for President is the assertion that her supporters aren’t qualified to vote.
There you have the previews. Now go and read the full op-ed here.

- JP

3 comments:

  1. David Frum will always go after Palin. He hates all conservatives. Frum's website the New Majority went really well. It was a disaster. That is because Conservatives know that Frum doesn't know what he is talking about. Frum and Mike Murphy are both disaster's for the GOP. Frum needs to realize that the GOP lost power because they became Democrat-lite in the Bush years. If they keep listening to Frum they will remain a minority party.
    There is know doubt that Palin has work to do getting Independents to think she is qualified to be President. All challengers running for President have to prove that though. Gov. Palin has the talent to pull this off. I will back Palin to the very end. I don't care what Frum thinks.

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  2. You have to laugh at the mental breakdown Palin haters are going through when having to comment about her. First they said that she as through in politics after the election, then they said she was really through as a candidate for 2012 after she resigned as Governor. Funny how they can't stop talking about Sarah Palin and 2012 though. Frum couldn't mention that 48% of the electorate voted for Sarah Palin as Vice President knowing that if something happened to McCain she would be President. Those happen to be the hard numbers. The poll numbers that him and other rags quote are a complete disconnect with the humongous crowds Sarah Palin drew last year. Palin's debate with Biden surpassed all three of Obama's debates with McCain in the ratings. Her debate with Biden was the second highest rated debate next to Ronald Reagan's debate with Jimmy Carter in 1980. Frum is out of touch like most of the country club establishment. I know what they are trying to do. They know perfectly well that they can't stop Sarah Palin from running in 2012 if that is what she wants to do. I believe they are trying to plant seeds of doubt in Palin's mind by constantly using questionable polls. It's laughable that the so called smartest people within the GOP are such slow learners when it comes to understanding common sense.

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  3. Yes, it was those brilliant Vichy Republican minds that produced the second Bush 41 "No Vision Thing" campaign, managed the Stupendous Bob Dole stumble to the White House and ran the John "I'm-suspending-my-campaign-and-going-back-to- Wasington-to-flush-$800-billion-taxpayer-dollars-down-the-financial-industry's-rat-hole" McCain can-pain into the ground.

    - JP

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