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David Frum and conservative purges
The Washington Examiner ^ | September 2, 2010 | Timothy P. Carney

Posted on 09/03/2010 6:34:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

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1 posted on 09/03/2010 6:34:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

They know how to steer alright and it will be 180 degrees from are current course.


2 posted on 09/03/2010 6:41:39 AM PDT by traderrob6
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I have a clue for you Davie, I don't want Congress doing anything. In fact, if after the GOP took control they just took the year off it would be fine with me ...

I'm really tired of both sides wanting to do somthing. Just leave me alone!

3 posted on 09/03/2010 6:44:09 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: traderrob6

Well, a couple of questions naturally arise from your comment. First, who is “they,” and second, will “they” just steer us towards a different set of hazards?


4 posted on 09/03/2010 6:44:43 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery. The Sixteenth Amendment reinstated it.)
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To: Lurking in Kansas

An understandable viewpoint.


5 posted on 09/03/2010 6:45:46 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery. The Sixteenth Amendment reinstated it.)
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To: EternalVigilance

I purge a David Frum every morning. Sometimes two.


6 posted on 09/03/2010 6:47:08 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Lurking in Kansas

For the record, I don’t think very highly of the judgment of either Carney or Frum, to put it mildly. I just think this article offers some amazing insight as to how clueless these Republican insiders really are. The admission that they have no real policy agenda or vision is very telling.


7 posted on 09/03/2010 6:49:15 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery. The Sixteenth Amendment reinstated it.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Hey Dave, let’s try gridlock for a while, see how that goes...


8 posted on 09/03/2010 6:49:26 AM PDT by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
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To: EternalVigilance

Would seem that articulating a solid plan would be giving the media a club to beat you over the head with during the campaign. Better to play close to the vest like Zero did and announce you plans after the election is over.

With a hostile media this is a good strategy.


9 posted on 09/03/2010 6:49:51 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: EternalVigilance

Well Frum can kiss my ass after the way he and his ilk treated Palin in 2008. And National Review along with those other “brains of the right” can go wherever it is that Frum went unless and until they get over their weird love of the anti-conservative Mitt Romney.


10 posted on 09/03/2010 6:50:33 AM PDT by delapaz
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To: EternalVigilance

The rantings of an out of touch RINO.


11 posted on 09/03/2010 6:50:52 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: RichInOC

Wow. The whole house must stink.


12 posted on 09/03/2010 6:50:59 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery. The Sixteenth Amendment reinstated it.)
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To: DarthVader

Yep.


13 posted on 09/03/2010 6:51:52 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery. The Sixteenth Amendment reinstated it.)
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To: EternalVigilance

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/david-frum-and-conservative-purges-102109294.html


14 posted on 09/03/2010 6:52:08 AM PDT by A. Morgan
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To: EternalVigilance

we want to undo!!!!
Troubling fact is the lack of leadership in the GOP...currently.


15 posted on 09/03/2010 6:52:49 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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...And I should add, that the intelligentsia tried to force-feed Romney to us, we puked it back up, and we were left with Juan McCain.

so we need new intelligentsia anyway, so I really don’t give a crap if these institutions get with the new program or crumble into dust.

This is a hostile takeover.


16 posted on 09/03/2010 6:53:37 AM PDT by delapaz
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David Frum and Timothy Carney (who?) are in a hand-wringing lather. Oh my! These unwashed tea partiers have upset the cushy clubby aristocratic elitist go-along-to-get-along squishy moderates establishment and they don't know how to drive!!! Aaaaaaaggggghhhhhh.

David, to borrow a phrase from the poseur-in-chief, your vision of conservatism is what has led the GOP into the ditch. We don't need you to tell us how to drive out of it. Senator DeMint and Congressman Pence will be given the wheel and they know exactly what they're doing, thank you very much. Just run along and get out of the way. It's clear that it is going to be too wild of a ride for you and your wobbly co-horts who Iowahawk has described so well ....weekly confabulation of like-minded conservative thinkers at the old family Montauk estate. Dame Peggy Noonan was there as always, along with the vivacious Kathleen Parker and those two mighty Davids of conservative intellect, Frum and Brooks.

17 posted on 09/03/2010 6:54:00 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free ...)
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I am anxious to see what their agenda is. Sure, extend the tax cuts but unless they are going to get real on spending reductions across the board (the reality of fiscal conservatism.....) then they will waste the opportunity nd all will be lost.


18 posted on 09/03/2010 6:54:30 AM PDT by misterrob (Thug Life....now showing at a White House near you....)
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I’m down with the others. Stopping the Obama agenda is plenty good enough for now, until real leadership shows up.


19 posted on 09/03/2010 6:54:32 AM PDT by delapaz
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“Somehow I always thought we’d get more done before we became completely corrupt.” How much will we get done next time given the poverty of our think tank work over the past half decade?”

How much did the founders rely on think tanks for their vision of government?

If we do get true conservative majorities in both chambers just ending this reaching across the aisle bipartisan nonsense along with some serious rollbacks will be a huge victory.

It’s gonna take a while to undo the damage.


20 posted on 09/03/2010 7:02:35 AM PDT by bereanway
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