December 2, 2011 at 10:39am
Well worth the read is David Frum's hard-hitting piece in New York magazine, "When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?"
Frum, a Republican, is a former editorial-page writer for the Wall Street Journal, has worked at the conservative Manhattan Institute, and was a speechwriter in the George W. Bush administration. And he thinks the Republicans in control of their party right now have lost their minds.
Once, he writes, "party elites" kept the craziness under control. But now, he says, "radical ideology" is loose: "ultralibertarianism, crank monetary theories, populist fury, and paranoid visions of a Democratic Party controlled by ACORN and the New Black Panthers."
There's a danger, he writes, that this stuff isn't just a "passing mania," that its growing strength will continue even if the party nominates one of its two rational candidates, Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman. Frum lays out the factors that make that possible (including Fox News and talk radio). And he urges other sensible Republicans to join him in a fight to take back their party.
Frum is worried about his party, and the toll its radical turn will take on the nation. The rest of us should be, too.
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craig said on Dec. 02, 2011 at 1:38pm
What utter rubbish... feeding the memes no matter how ridiculous it makes one sound. Simplistic, unabashed fear-mongering.
b sarbane said on Dec. 02, 2011 at 4:44pm
Hate to disappoint, but no one on the GOP side of the fence takes Frum seriously. Its not clear if he fell and bonked his head or just underwent a mid-life crisis, but whatever credibility he once had is gone and his ramblings are regarded as borderline goofy. He is useful much like David Brooks is useful as a resident GOP who can be counted on to say anti-GOP things by Lefty media outlets looking for credibility for their anti-GOP rants.
kathryn Thomas said on Dec. 02, 2011 at 6:40pm
Sorry, Sarbane, but you don't think the list of Republican candidates so far have been pretty crazy? We don't have to go into details, but really, 666? Gay retraining? Pizza? Multiple marriages? What happened to reasoned conservatives?
Craig said on Dec. 03, 2011 at 4:24pm
No. Apparently going into details is passé. Innuendo, manufactured memes and bumperstickerisms seem to suffice. Reasoned, indeed.
b sarbane said on Dec. 03, 2011 at 5:39pm
I'll take a couple successful businessmen, a woman who doesn't believe in government run health care, or a former Speaker of the House who balanced the budget, over a Trillion dollar deficit spending, anti-Israel, pro-mullah socialist any day.
And so will the American people in November. Our long national nightmare is going to be over. Unfortunately we'll still be paying off the debt for it 30 years from now.
Leisa S said on Dec. 04, 2011 at 1:00pm
Two words as proof as to how crazy the right has become: Donald Trump. Remember him? King of the Birthers who was once at the top of the field of possible nomination clowns?
I never thought I'd say this in my life, but Frum is correct. SENSIBLE conservatives need to get together and take their party back. I miss sane conservatives and would like to see more of them. At least Huntsman has given me faith that there are a few out there.
Troll Whisperer said on Dec. 04, 2011 at 4:14pm
If Obama is a "socialist" that must mean Nixon was a Maoist (and, after all, he DID meet Mao), given his "socialist" to the left of Obama health care proposal. And Ike must have been Khmer Rouge, given his socialist leanings on taxes for the wealthy. Those John Birchers were right after all.
Too bad conservatives (with a small "c") used to care about perversion of the language, always a sign of lying.
Robert Markham said on Dec. 09, 2011 at 11:03am
"If Obama is a "socialist" that must mean Nixon was a Maoist"
No, but he was a lot more liberal than he is remembered for being. He took us off the gold standard, after all. Was that "conservative"? It's just the tendency of the media and the left (which are the same, after all) to look for conservative "villains" and liberal "heroes". Kennedy was a Commie Fighter and believed in tax cuts to boost the economy, but you wouldn't know it from the way he is talked about today...
Holly said on Feb. 20, 2012 at 10:24pm
It's been almost 3 months since this article,,,,,,,,
and it's gotten even worse. The whole republican party has lost their MINDS.
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