GOP Surrenders to Beck's Mob Rule

NewMajority ^ | 9/11/09 | David Frum

[steve-b]

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....

Glenn Beck is not the first to make a pleasant living for himself by reckless defamation. We have seen his kind before in American journalism and American politics, and the good news is that their careers never last long. But the bad news is that while their careers do last, such people do terrible damage.....

[mainepatsfan]

Frum’s attitude is precisely the reason why the GOP finds itself in the position it is today.

[Blado]

Frum is a troll in need of zotting.

[Doogle]

libtards hate exposure

[Paladin2]

More Frum-pyness.

[Mojave]

Frum - bitter and jealous.

[tgusa]

Penis envy. Frum wishes he had any impact at all. What a tool.

[Lazamataz]

Attack the messenger! Lest the message be noticed!

[dools007]

The colossal smugness of the self-rightous always astounds me. Reminds of the commies.

[politicalmerc]

When Democrats have protests and grass roots support its democracy in action. When Republicans do it, it’s “mob rule.”

[MortMan]

Yo, David...

Beck’s “mob” happens to be the party’s base.

You know - the very people who despise quislings like you!

[passionfruit]

Sour grapes from Frum!

[OCCASparky]

Frum is precisely the reason why the GOP is lost in the wilderness. Dear Dave, sucking up to liberals doesn’t make you a good conservative, it just makes you a suckup. Go back to HuffPo already.

[Roccus]

The GOP hierarchy is true “mob” rule.

[Paladin2]

[boomop1]

Frum wants it both ways, eeewwww.

[PAR]

Is Frum lying or is Beck lying? I don’t know the facts.

[GonzoGOP]

If you fail to lead, you lose the right to complain about the people who do.

[domeika]

Reckless defamation? Is that what we’re calling the truth these days?

[SueRae]

Live that pic. Exactly what comes to mind ala Frum. He’s become irrelevant.

[Diogenesis]

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?"

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James Carville (DNC): "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."

[4rcane]

its funny, his voice is not shared by majority of people yet he thinks his view will help create this newmajority

[4rcane]

how do you create this newmajority when majority don’t agree with you

[Bahbah]

Maybe Beck was none too scrupulous about facts and truth.

Where is the evidence for this?

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Frum is lying, twisting the truth, and grasping at straws.

[samsmom]

Is Beck frequently over the top, no doubt—and a bit repetitious, but no one does a better job at graphing, charting and explaining all the radical connections to and the role they play in Obama’s administration. Where is the mainstream media? If you don’t watch Beck, listen to talk radio or surf sites like this, or watch Fox, you would be clueless. And that’s why the new FCC chief diversity chief/czar Mark Lloyd would love to do to our broadcasters what Chavez has done for Venezuela. Oh, and I got that from Beck, too.

[mad_as_he$$]

And Mr. Frum curious minds want to know how you pick your targets.

[abb]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frum

Frum

25 up, 5 down

A colourful layered cocktail made of white rum and various fruit juices where over half the concoction is rum. Used to get you drunk quick in times of desperation such as your lame housemate throwing a houseparty.

[Tribune7]

Big mistake. Beck is working for himself –

Unlike David Frum. LOLOLOL

[Ann Archy]

Poor David....he is so yesterday.

[Diogenesis]

David Frum (Attention Whore, Romney Operative):
“Glenn Beck is not the first to make a pleasant living for himself by reckless defamation.

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 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I guess Frum missed the giant article on Sunstein in the NRA’s First Freedom magazine. A portrait of Sunstein was on the cover. I read about Sunstein’s whackiness months ago there. Beck is not the only one that raised a flag about this nitwit.

[mo]

Establishment Washington (EW) is beginning to squirm as the bright light of information SLOOOOWLY is focusing in on their un-American conduct....

[domeika]

please....no pics of carville or waxman or (insert name of other rat-faced alien here) before a reasonable drinking hour.

[Tribune7]

LOL.

That's gotta be satire.

If not, they clearly want to be taken seriously. Bialystock and Blooooom.

[GoCards]

What is the draw to Mitt? SEriously?

[McGruff]

I see our resident DUer is back

What a maroon.

[ml/nj]

Beck is working for himself

And Frum is working for ?

I don't really care if Beck is working for the Tooth Fairy. I care about the information he brings to the table, and how often that information might be contradicted by facts known at the time, or by facts that come to light subsequent to his presentations.

ML/NJ

[albie]

“Beck is working for himself – and he chooses his targets according to his own scheme of priorities....”

...let’s Van Jones, ACORN, head of NEA. Yep! All good, honest, hard working people that were thrown under the bus by Beck. ~extremem sarc

[Bluebird Singing]

“And that’s why the new FCC chief diversity chief/czar Mark Lloyd would love to do to our broadcasters what Chavez has done for Venezuela. Oh, and I got that from Beck, too.”

You got it right from the horse’s (Mark Lloyd) mouth via video, thanks to Glenn.

Frum is an useful idiot.

[sirchtruth]

It's almost like REALITY for people like Shrum doesn't even exist. Whatever they "FEEL" about a person is in essence the reality. Forget actual facts, they do not jive with antagonist feelings, therefore I can justify this outright deception and this unfair degrading I'm spewing about Beck. I don't even watch Beck, and I know this is pure B.S.

I believe this game for liberals has come to an end in this political cycle. Enough people do care about truth and facts and know at the end of the day reality is what really matters.

Personal feelings and facts are far cry from reality in Shrums case.

[Boonie]

I’ve heard of Glenn Beck........Who is David Frum????

[TPOOH]

new majority.com

Don't they wish.

[maggief]

“Beck is working for himself “

Frum is working for the DNC.

[Always Right]

Glenn Beck is not the first to make a pleasant living for himself by reckless defamation.

Reckless defamation = Truth....So far Beck has exposed ACORN and several of Obama's czars, plus the web of dubious organizations that are an integral part of the white house. Where is the recklessness in that????

[Always Right]

Is Frum lying or is Beck lying? I don’t know the facts.

Do video tapes, resignations, cutoff of funding by Democrats lie? What more evidence do you need?

[jesseam]

RE: I’ve heard of Glenn Beck........Who is David Frum????

I agree. Who is Frum?? sound like someone who is afraid of the truth and jealous of Beck to boot.

[paulycy]

Beck is working for himself – and he chooses his targets according to his own scheme of priorities....

This is a false argument. There is absolutely nothing sinister about it.

Every single person who believes in individualism is working for him or her self.

The best way to do this is to choose your targets carefully according to your own priorities thus ensuring that you will benefit the most number of *other* people you wish to serve which will then make you, yourself, successful.

Failing to understand this fundamentally conservative world view makes me wonder just what your world view actually is....

[fml]

Beck may have let half truths fly, Sunstein is not the wacko he claims - imo. But Frum is behing dishonest by trying to blame Beck for Sunsteins unpopularity. He was confirmed, so Frum got what he wanted, but still whines like a jealous competitor.