Frum: voters ask, "what will this presidency do for me? And 'dick you over' is not a winning answer"

[Texas Lawyer]

Professional right-wing loony, David Frum, is blowing up on twitter:

"The Romney campaign has a messaging problem because ... the Romney campaign offers nothing but bad news to hardpressed Americans and the broader middle class.
...
How do you message: I'm doing away w Medicaid over the next 10 yrs, Medicare after that, to finance a cut in the top rate of tax to 28%?
...
I don't care if you hire the people who produce the ATT ads that make my wife cry, there's no lipsticking that pig.
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But voters do care about the q: what will this presidency do for me? And "dick you over" is not a winning answer"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/davidfrum.html

[phleshdef]

1. David Frum is not one of the "loonies".

Out of all the people on the right I could trash as being completely insane, Frum is not one of them. He is definately one of their more reasonable and rational people, even likeable to a certain extent.

[hlthe2b]

2. I agree...

[Texas Lawyer]

4. Isn't he the guy who invented Bush's "Axis of Evil" meme?

[hlthe2b]

5. You seem to be conflating the fact he is a RETHUG and the fact that is NOT GOING TO CHANGE....

with him being on the most "looney" side of the spectrum (which he is not). He is not someone any of us are likely to agree with more than 1% or less of the time, but he, like Steve Schmidt, is capable of telling the truth about his own party at least occasionally. Both remain RETHUG partisans and are always going to view Democrats through a RETHUG perspective, but they remain on the more sane end of the RW spectrum.

[Texas Lawyer]

6. I see Frum as a "right-wing loony" because he is a BushII apologist. I might be less skeptical of a

Nixon apologist ("yeah, he was a crook, but he ended the draft and promoted the Equal Rights Amendment and the Environmental Protection Agency&quot , Regan apologist ("yeah, he was a troll about AIDS, but he signed a ground-breaking anti-nuke treaty&quot , or a BushI apologist ("yeah, he was a war-mongering crony capitalist, but he passed the Americas with Disabilities Act&quot , but I just cannot abide the apologists for BushII.

This is probably a blind spot of mine, but I just can't see beyond Frum's rule in the BushII regime.

[Texas Lawyer]

3. This type of stuff (below) crosses my "right-wing loony" threshold:

"You don’t have to succumb to ideological fever or paranoid fantasy to see that the Obama administration is dragging America to the wrong future: a future of higher taxes and reduced freedom, a future in which entrepreneurs will innovate less and lobbyists will influence more, a future in which individuals and communities will make fewer choices for themselves and remote bureaucracies will dictate more answers to us all."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/david-frum-strikes-back-at-andrew-sullivan-on-barack-obama.html

"I remain immune to Obama's appeal. Who's writing his speeches? Rob Reiner? How such utter empty gas-baggery could sound to so many people like the second coming of Pericles utterly baffles me. And yet evidently it does thrill millions of people, not only the Beatlemaniacs in the liberal blogosphere, but (much more importantly) the still-powerful custodians in the big media, who have decided that any criticism of Obama no matter how well founded is out of bounds."

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmVjNWMzZWZiOTdhYWRhMDY2Zjc1YWE3NjJkNzc1YTI=

{insert virtually any line from Frum's book The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush}

I'm not saying that he's Rush Limbaugh or Dick Morris bad, but he's bad.