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Dear David Frum

By: Mike Krempasky (Diary)  |  August 15th, 2009 at 09:27 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I know you’re working hard to modernize the Republican party and all the while keeping your boot thumb on the pulse of the conservative movement..but we haven’t been RedState.org in years.

We’ll be over here with the icky Palin people, trying to actually get folks elected. I’m sure when we do, they’ll need a fancy speechwriter or two to polish them up and make them presentable, so there’s hope yet.

kthxsbye.

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  • clement

    If you guys never linked to him, nobody would ever read what he writes. (Yes, even less than what he has now)

    I bet most of his unique hits are from bloggers/pundits.

  • spainishirish

    he goes into full panic mode.

    In a narrow, free market sense, I actually respect his decision to try to ride his market up. Others, who already have smelled the blood and bailed, not so much.

    Frum will be a bitter little man surrounded by a few other bitter little men decrying the next GOP victory–likely in 2010–as undeserved. He’s pathetic, as is what passes for his tiny audience.

    We need to make certain that our party leaders understand the importance that these folks remain marginalized in times of victory as well as in times of defeat. I intend to impress that fact on them

    Good post, Mike.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    But the dot-org thing is sort of a tell. Useful, too.

  • Richard Mullins

    He’s a product of the past that we don’t need. When it comes to constructive conservatism, we are it. We’re on the front lines and he is a road block.

  • RedBeard

    His angst is fully understandable. He probably wrote that piece while sitting in the gilded library of the Lindsey Graham Republican Club, just after learning the tragic news that the club had run out of Merlot.

  • Adjoran

    The boy couldn’t find his own asp with both hands, a map, a flashlight, and a 30-minute head start.

  • Adjoran

    But at least I have enough juice to learn that no red wines are permitted at the LGRC, only French whites and champagnes and certified French cheeses. Of course, if John McCain develops the urge for a Tab?, Lindsey will fetch it for him while he’s picking up McCain’s dry cleaning.

    Which reminds me of some old jokes from my years in Virginia, which still ring true:

    How many Richmonders does it take to change a light bulb? 10 – one to change it while 9 stand around and reminisce about how much better the old bulb was.

    How many Northern Virginians does it take to change a light bulb? 10 – all of whom stand around sipping white wine and nibbling brie cheese and complaining about how the legislature in Richmond just doesn’t understand the unique problems faced in changing light bulbs in Northern Virginia (the DC electrician they call to actually change the bulb doesn’t count).

    :-D

  • smagar

    ..a conservative trying to win the approval of liberals—and paychecks from the MSM—by talking poorly of other conservatives.

    Well, actually, Powerline was writing about David Brooks at the time, but the shoe fits Frum, too. And Kathleen Parker.

    Come to think of it, I saw Frum on CNN the other day. Maybe he’s angling to replace David Gergen as the token “conservative” on Ted’s network.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    or just Scum for short

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • peg_c

    the way I, Levin, Mark and many here at RedState define the word.

    How many of us read anything by Frum (or Brooks, Parker, or the other Useful Idiots) even when we come across links and excerpts? I don’t, anymore than I read anything by Mr. Trig Troofer Sullivan.

  • RedBeard

    Not to participate in, but to poke fun at.

    The sentence structure above is bait for Frum or any other lonely elitist who needs to fill his otherwise empty life. As for me, I prefer real people. Iif anyone needs me, I’ll be hanging out with the guys down at the Moose Jaw Inn, or perhaps enjoying a cold one with the other bikers at Mojo’s Hog Pen.

  • peg_c

    n/t