John Hawkins wouldn’t let David Frum’s site, the Frum Forum, into the Conservative Blog Ads Hive because Frum is not a conservative, he’s a dingus (though I am in the Conservative Blog Ads Hive because of my awesomeness). This made Frum mad and he was all “I’m telling the truth and people can’t stand it, blah blah blah, clippity clop!” And then know who came out to defend Frum? Andrew Sullivan, Charles Johnson, and Media Matters’s David Brock. Wow, what super conservative friends you have, Frum.
Anyway, if Frum wants to say he’s a conservative, then fine — he’s a conservative. That’s opinion, really, and people can have their opinions. But they also have to note this about him which is not an opinion but an objective fact if you think Frum is a conservative: He’s a complete and utter moron.
How is that an objective fact? Well, let’s look at what Frum is trying to do. He says he wants to convince conservatives away from radicalism. So he needs a message tailored to conservatives. Instead though, all he is ever able to do is antagonize conservatives and the only people who like his message about how mean and awful the conservatives are are liberals. So are we supposed to believe Frum is a super smart member of conservatives with a message conservatives need to hear yet has no idea how conservatives think and thus is completely unable to communicate to them in a useful way?
There are either two possibilities: Frum isn’t trying to antagonize conservatives which means he’s doing it by accident because he’s a complete an utter moron with no idea how to talk to people. And if someone doesn’t understand people — doesn’t understand how conservatives behave — how worthwhile would his political viewpoints be and is there any point in listening to him?
The other possibility is Frum is purposely trying to antagonize conservative because he’s not a conservative. Instead, he’s a dingus. And is there any point in listening to a dingus?
So there are your two possibilities for Frum: Moron conservative who its pointless to listen or dingus who its pointless to listen to. Any other possibility doesn’t fit with the facts.
Who is Frum and why should I care what he thinks? Hawkins I know, so I vote for dingus.
Right on, Frank. Everything I’ve read from Frum looks like he’s trying to convince conservatives to become liberals. It’s no wonder liberals are always praising the guy and that his defenders would include well known conservative bashers like Charles “I’ll ban you and I believe the Daily Kos / Research 2000 fraud poll about conservatives” Johnson, Andrew Sullivan and that lying creep from Media Matter David Brock.
There.s an expression in Spanish that applies here: “Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres.” Tell me who you hang out with and I’ll tell you who you are. You, Mr. Frum, are no conservative, you’re a liberal. Please stop trying to fool people ’cause it ain’t working.
Awesome column, Frank.
John McCain ran a whole crappy presidential campaign in which he “claimed” to be a conservative, too. Only if you consider John McCain, Lindsay Graham or Arlen Specter to be conservatives could you possibly be warped enough to think Frum was a conservative.
I don’t understand why Frum is so angry. Is he not hanging with the cool kids?
Nail on the head, Marko. Nail on the head. He’s gonna get bonus cool points by complaining that he offers to hang out with the non-cool kids, but they’re too stuck up to have him.
Perhaps, Burma, we are all just helping Frum’s plot to spend some time in a dark closet with Maureen Dowd, if you know what I’m sayin’.
We should run From Frum. Frank nailed where he is coming Frum. He wears women’s clothes and looks Frumpy. sorry.
Frum: “Come to the dark sid. ,Only then you will know the power of the Farce.”
Frump. What a dipwad. Friggin elitist. I bet he’s white.
QED. Damn, I love this blog.
“Perhaps, Burma, we are all just helping Frum’s plot to spend some time in a dark closet with Maureen Dowd, if you know what I’m sayin’.”
Yep, I know what your saying. Plus we can hope somebody rigs the closet with an infrared camera. It’s been a while since we had a hot and juicy celebrity sex tape. Of course, I’m not gonna watch it, I don’t need the emotional scars such a thing would leave.
Correction…
dingus
dweeb
dill weed
dork
dorkwad
dipwad
dipsh!t
I had to stop there ’cause I went to Urban Dictionary and realized the “D” list is potentially huge.
Frank is correct — Frum is not a conservative; he’s a neocon. He’s basically a liberal or a moderate on all issues except the Iraq war. He’s most notorious for his 2003 “Unpatriotic Conservatives” NR article, which attempted to kick Iraq war opponents out of the conservative movement. Of course, in 2008 he supported the liberal freakshow Giuliani for president.
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