To: combjelly who wrote (557057 ) 3/25/2010 11:57:33 PM From: tejek Respond to As it turns out, Frum was forced out. He was telling everyone that wasn't because of his criticisms of GOP strategy but why the abruptness?Conservative David Frum loses think-tank job after criticizing GOP Frum made clear, in a letter to AEI President Arthur C. Brooks, that his departure after seven years as a resident fellow at the conservative think tank was not voluntary. "I have had many fruitful years at the American Enterprise Institute," he wrote, "and I do regret this abrupt and unexpected conclusion of our relationship." "A huge part of the blame for today's disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves," Frum wrote. "At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama's Waterloo -- just as healthcare was [Bill] Clinton's in 1994. . . . Frum has long been a contrarian conservative. He emerged as a harsh critic of Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign and resigned from the National Review after Obama was elected. "I think a little more distance can help everybody do a better job of keeping their temper," he said then. "I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated."
