David Frum: Republicans surrender to mob rule (likes Cass, hates Beck)

National Post ^ | 9/11/09 | David Frum

[pissant]

When Glenn Beck made his Fox debut, some shrewd conservatives responded with a wink. Maybe the show was paranoid and hysterical. Maybe Beck was none too scrupulous about facts and truth. But why be squeamish? The other side did as bad, or nearly. And see how usefully he mobilized the base!

Those shrewd conservatives assumed Beck was working for them. Big mistake. Beck is working for himself – and he chooses his targets according to his own scheme of priorities.

The newest target is Cass Sunstein, confirmed yesterday by the Senate as director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs within the Office of Management and Budget.

For more about Sunstein, see Tim Mak’s adjoining report. Bottom line: For those who champion free competitive markets, Cass Sunstein is about the best possible choice to be hoped for from a Democratic administration.

I arrive at this opinion through first hand knowledge. I studied in one of Cass Sunstein’s seminars at Harvard Law School, and witnessed for two hours per week the fair play of his mind. But it’s not only my opinion. It’s the opinion of: Chris DeMuth, past president of the American Enterprise Institute; of the Wall Street Journal editorial page; and of the editors of Cato’s Regulation magazine. And while Republican-appointed judges like Chief Justice John Roberts and Court of Appeals Judge Michael McConnell cannot properly express a view, I’d wager dollars-to-doughnuts they too support Sunstein: after all, he endorsed both of them.

[pissant]

Frum has gotta be considering joining the democrats anytime now.

[Stepan12]

He’s a schmuck!

[A. Morgan]

David Frum is the South end of a North bound HORSE!

[cripplecreek]

Beck gets things done and isn’t a partisan hack.

[airborne]

Frum has gotta be considering joining the democrats anytime now.

I thought he already was a Dem...

[kittymyrib]

What’s a Frum? Must be a dinosaur from an earlier age of docile conservatism, the kind that wanted to be part of the in-crowd on the coasts.

[antonico]

“Frum has gotta be considering joining the democrats anytime now.”

My contention is he’s always been one, and is one of the many posing as “Conservative Media” to undermine Conservatism from within (the is Propaganda-as-a-system toppling tool 101). But even if it’s not true - then let him go. Good riddance.

[EagleUSA]

I wonder if Frum smells as bad as what he really is....??

[roses of sharon]

Regardless of Beck....Frum is done, he has nothing constructive to give anymore.

The Harvard crowd have shown themselves to be bigots, and it is they who have grown government to the point that we are all slaves now.

[Stepan12]

THIS is a Frum (snicker)

[raybbr]

I wonder if Davey knows about this?

It's funny how dissent is now an insult but six years ago it was important.

[pillut48]

[Bahbah]

Could anyone be more useless than David Frum? His website project has gone nowhere. Which is where he is going.

[pissant]

Or how about this gem???

[wolf24]

One of the greatest pic/graphic of all time.

LOL

[cripplecreek]

LOL

[Archon of the East]

I would like for one these losers to actually point out something Beck says that is not factual. They never do they only say he plays fast and loose with the facts but never actually names any.

[OpusatFR]

Who cares?

The jig is up. No one cares what the opposition thinks.

For too long, the rules of engagement were written by the left and the rules were predicated on this belief: If the left says it, it must be so.

That game is soooo over.

[pissant]

Or this ....

[TADSLOS]

He needs to run an old fashioned gauntlet of conservatives on his way out. Just for being a douchebag.

[Diogenesis]

The Romney knob-polisher who worked to throw Election2008

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

[FrdmLvr]

Feck off, Frum!

[JPG]

Frumpy is massively jealous and envious of GB. Go cry in your pablum you snarky weasel

[BallyBill]

Aha, so Sunstein and Frum are working for the Conservatives!

Some people really hate to become irrelevant. Don't they David?

[RichInOC]

David, “the best choice possible from a Democrat administration” is sort of like saying “doesn’t sweat much for a fat girl...and has a great personality”.

[x_plus_one]

So how is it that this man so admired by economic conservatives worldwide, this market-oriented economist, this endorser of Republican Supreme Court nominees, and – by the way – this constitutional scholar who has endorsed the Heller case expanding Second Amendment gun rights - how could he of all the 10,000 political appointees of the Obama administration become a demon figure to Fox TV’s new star?

Well duh, he is an obamabot. He works in the O!BUmmer administration and is on the wrong side of history. That is all.

[A.Hun]

This is Sunstein in his own words...he starts at about 39 minutes in. (If you can stand to listen.)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2586700172704318361#

He is a flaming nutcase and should be nowhere near any regulatory agency.

[chiller]

I hope to hell Frum is correct, because Sunstein seems to have some wack-job concepts of jurisprudence and that scares me. He's also in for the SC.

I can't read a book by its cover....wonder what's inside his screed "Time for a 2nd Bill of Rights"

[Major Matt Mason]

Hey, David, Beck has a couple of notches in his pistol. he's a pretty effective loon, IMO. It's more than the weak-kneed members of the GOP in DC have accomplished.

[bray]

More Brie and Chablis David???

Pray for America and the March on the District of Corruption

[DJ Frisat]

"Maybe Beck was none too scrupulous about facts and truth."

I just love these dipsticks who make claims like this without providing examples of misstatements of fact and/or lies.

It's like the 'Bush lied' to lead us into the Iraq war. Libs would make vague statements but never could specifically pinpoint an actual lie -- because there wasn't one. There was incorrect information based upon faulty intelligence, but there was no big lie. In order to lie, you have to know that what you're saying is not true.

I'd bet that Beck would readily correct any information he has aired, if he were confronted with facts that ran contrary to what he has maintained.

Too many confuse 'fact' with inference or opinion. There are only facts. There are no "true facts" or "false facts."

[spodefly]

It has to be scary for them.

They put their lefty fire breathers on the radio to compete head to head with conservative talk shows, funded it, and funded it, and funded it some more, and watched it sink because no one bought into their BS.

And someone like Beck, whose “SMEAR CAMPAIGN!!” against Van Jones consisted of playing clips of Van Jones saying things Van Jones said, cleans up in the ratings, and is actually just a symptom of a movement that isn’t centered on fire breathing rhetoric and name calling, but plain ol’ law-abiding citizens asking questions, exposing the truth, and not liking what they see in government and media.

[Lurker]

I studied in one of Cass Sunstein’s seminars at Harvard Law School

Harvard Law and Harvard Business Schools should be declared Enemies of the Republic and razed to the ground. Anyone who graduated from either in the last 30 years should be required to spend a year working in a non-union plumbing, carpentry, concrete, steelworking, or electrical trade as an apprentice.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The left has yet to point out a single lie Beck has told. They continue to shout “liar”, but cannot and do not refute a single thing he has said.

The MSM and their blogger maggots are sweating bullets of terror. They have no response.

[Shqipo]

His political transition is almost “Gergenesque.”

[yongin]

Frum’s idea of advancing conservativism is for Republicans to rubber stamp Obama’s policies.

[outofstyle]

I studied in one of Cass Sunstein’s seminars at Harvard...

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

[RedMonqey]

Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America

A real Friend of conservatives, huh, Frum

[Valpal1]

Roosevelt’s inaugural address of January 11, 1944, asked Congress to adopt a “second Bill of Rights”: guarantees of work, adequate housing and income, medical care and education, among others—promises designed to extend the New Deal

Obama’s agenda is what is in the book.

[Lancey Howard]

Frum has gotta be considering joining the democrats anytime now.

???

If it walks like a rat, and squeaks like a rat, it's a rat.