David Frum's verdict is in. This pretty much sums it up:
We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.
The commentary is, of course, entirely correct.
Having said that, wouldn't it have been easier to swallow this stirring indictment of conservative hyperbole if it had come from someone who hadn't played so vital a role in coining the neocon catchphrase, "axis of evil" that was at root of so much of the tumultuous, global reverberation America faced by the end of the last Bush presidency?
It wasn't so long ago that Mr. Frum's own talking points were being eagerly fed to, lapped up and ramped up by the very voices he now castigates and blames for everything.
Mr. Frum, former Bush speechwriter, states, "I’ve been on a soapbox for months now about the harm that our overheated talk is doing to us."
He might want to face that soapbox toward a conveniently located mirror. He is not without personal responsibility here for the tenor of America's current political dialogue.
Read the entire David Frum commentary: Waterloo.
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
UPDATE: Also see Mr. Frum on video:
- GJW
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2 comments:
Democrats wanted to go it alone from the start. If Liberal Republican Olympia Snowe could not cut a deal, no Republican could.
That's OK.
Remember Mulroney, Free Trade, and cancelling the export killing manufacturing sales tax and replacing it with the GST.
Liberals were on the wrong side of history with both issues.
A good analysis. If only Frum were so rational policy-wise.
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