Over at Copious Dissent, Devil’s Advocate writes:
One of David Frum’s major argumentative techniques is to cite polling data demonstrating that Republicans are losing support among certain demographics (i.e. woman, college educated, etc.). In order to win those demographics back, Frum argues that Republicans need to abandon the ideology of limited government, support environmental legislation, create government healthcare solutions and even embrace taxes on energy. The sad truth for David is that nobody in the Republican Party is buying his arguments. In fact, the only people that like David Frum’s politics vote Democrat, and those people will never change their minds to vote Republican.
Just compare David Frum’s new website, New Majority, and his YouTube page NewMajorityWebsite, to other websites and YouTube channels, and you will see why he must crawl back to Newsweek in order to find anyone that agrees with him.
His chart and summation are excellent so READ THE REST.
EDIT: Here’s the Newsweek article. (Barf alert!)
Interesting Free Republic thread going on here.
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It was a good thing that Frum called in otherwise I never would have known how fundamentally wrong he was. I suspect that most people are similar to me, with serious time constraints, and carefully decide on whom they listen to and what they read.
Everyone knows that college students and women supported Obama. The idea that adopting the other side’s position will result in acceptance is normally called “losing the argumentâ€Â. Personally I don’t care how the other side thinks and feels but for the fact they vote my liberty and freedom away and if I agree with them I might as well vote the same way as well.
We win on principles without much effort but people who voted for Obama really don’t care about principles. I long ago discovered that you could win the argument yet lose the vote. No conservative will modify principle core beliefs so I usually present conservatism as the prosperous way that gives all people a better life with less government dependence, less crime, a small welfare community as opposed to an expanding one, safe borders, a cheaper, more abundant and varied complex of goods and services, more and better educational opportunities, easier access to income with less of it given to government. That is what liberty and freedom really provide and that is how we can best achieve full and virtuous happiness.
Listening to Frum disarticulate was a good example of why Levin normally cuts these people off so as not to waste airtime. It was an education only to the extent that we learned how not to waste precious time that could otherwise be spent learning something really significant and useful.
Now, that was GREAT radio (although I found myself grinding my teeth every time Frum started spouting off with pointless minutia).
Hopefully, Mark can get Brooks & Noonan up next for a well-deserved unmasking.
I think David Frum provided everyone with a great definition of “liberal democrat”.
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You have got to hand it to Obama. He has galvanized his supporters, such as Cramer and Buffet, against his policies and has enlisted Paglia, the liberal feminist, to support his newly contrived enemy, Limbaugh. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/03/11/mercury/
Now how could a conservative have achieved this with even the cleverest of innovativeness? If Obama continues this way the only place Rush may have disagreement will be from, what is supposedly, our side.