David Frum: As I Feel, So Feels the World!
By Mark on SCOTUS
Decision '08
I’ve had just about enough of David Frum; he is the epitome of the ‘personally betrayed’ conservative whose support for the President who used to employ him is so thin that a Supreme Court nomination, for cryin’ out loud, has derailed it. David, chill a little; it’s not the end of the Republic. Even more annoying is the tendency of Frum to think that his own outrage is mirrored in the populace at large.
Perhaps I’ve been guilty of underestimating the damage the Miers nomination has done to the President’s standing with the base, but does anyone doubt that Frum is overstating it by orders of magnitude?
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Offending your supporters has real-world consequences. With one grave misjudgment, George W. Bush has shattered the coalition that brought and returned him to power in 2000 and 2004.
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Please…here’s more Frum:
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[The President’s nominatino of Miers] disregards and insults the seriousness with which conservatives have worked for three decades to bring change to America’s high-handed courts. There is no domestic issue that conservatives care about more, nothing for which individual conservatives have made greater personal sacrifices than to get ready for the day when a conservative president and a Republican Senate would at last hold the power to fill that crucial swing seat on the court.
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Well, forgive me for saying so, David, but that sounds like you’re looking for someone who will legislate from the bench. It’s okay for us, but not for the other guys? Or is your point too subtle for ignorant ol’ me?
This is one woman, of 9 justices, who, even if confirmed, will sit on the bench a finite number of years. By all means, oppose away, you may even sway some fence-sitters like myself…but not with this kind of fit-throwing. David Frum, you need to get a grip…if Bush has lost your support, fine…but stick to facts, and quit projecting your feelings onto the American public, or even the ‘typical’ conservative (if there is such a thing)…
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