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what? you think it's less of a crock of schit when you print out the whole thing?

the fact that you like it saves most the trouble of having to wade through Frum's nonsense to conclude it's just leftie agitprop. he has been reliably wrong about just about any topic you can name for many many years.

he wants a liberal party is really upset the Republicans don't want to be one for him.

Frum lost me when he decided that there was more media popularity to be had by being their favorite whore who would crap on his former "allies"....if he was ever really a republican in any sense.

when commie homos like Frank Rich are praising your books as really really smart....it's a good sign you're writing bullshit, and that was the case with Frum at least as far back as 1994.

you're welcome to him, sycamore. he's your kind of conservative.

After graduating from Harvard, Frum returned to Toronto to serve as an associate editor of Saturday Night.[9] He was an editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1989 until 1992, and then a columnist for Forbes magazine in 1992-94. During his tenure at the Journal, Frum "accepted the freelance assignment that would make his name: a 1991 cover story for The American Spectator attacking Pat Buchanan."[9] From 1994 through 2000 he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. During the 1990s he attended "three or four" Bilderberg Group meetings as a guest of Conrad Black.[10]

Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Frum was appointed to a position within the White House. Frum would later write that when he was first offered the job by chief Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson,
� I believed I was unsuited to the job he was offering me. I had no connection to the Bush campaign or the Bush family. I had no experience in government and little of political campaigns. I had not written a speech for anyone other than myself. And I had been only a moderately enthusiastic supporter of George W. Bush � I strongly doubted he was the right man for the job.[11] �

Still a Canadian citizen, he was one of the few foreign nationals working within the Bush White House. He had filed for naturalization and took the oath of citizenship on September 11, 2007.[12] Frum served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Speechwriting from January 2001 to February 2002. He is credited with inventing the expression �axis of evil� Bush introduced in his 2002 State of the Union address, since Frum's wife, Danielle Crittenden, bragged about it in e-mails that were picked up by the media.[13] Frum shortly afterwards resigned from his position. Both he and the White House denied any connection to the incidence.[14] He later explained, that he used the term �axis of hatred�, referring to terrorist groups and extremist governments, in the first draft of the speech and the phrase was changed to �axis of evil.�[12]

While serving in the Bush White House, Frum was "one of the most vociferous voices . . . calling for war in Iraq," and "wrote in 2003 about the Iraqis 'welcoming their liberators.'"[15]

Frum strongly supported John Roberts, George W. Bush's nominee for Chief Justice of the United States. However, like many conservatives, he opposed the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court of the United States, on the grounds that she was insufficiently qualified for the post, as well as insufficiently conservative.

On October 11, 2007, Frum announced on his blog that he was joining Rudolph Giuliani's presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser.[16][17]

Frum was a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, from 2003 until March 25, 2010, when his paid position was terminated and he declined to accept the offer of a non-paying position.[18][19] Media reports noted that the termination came three days after Frum's strongly worded criticism of the Republican strategy on health care reform, but Frum said that the AEI had not cited his criticism as the reason for his termination.[18][20] It was also suggested that he was fired for criticizing Fox news, saying "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.�[21]
[edit] NewMajority.com and FrumForum.com

On November 16, 2008, The New York Times reported that Frum would be leaving National Review where he was a contributing editor and run an online blog.[22] Frum announced to readers of his blog that he would be starting a new political website, NewMajority.com, describing it as "a group blog, featuring many different voices. Not all of them� conservatives or Republicans." He added that he hoped the site would "create an online community that will be exciting and appealing to younger readers, a generation often repelled by today's mainstream conservatism."[23] The website was launched on January 19, 2009,[24] on October 31, 2009, it changed to FrumForum.com.
[edit] Writings

Frum's first book, Dead Right, was released in 1994. It "expressed intense dissatisfaction with supply-siders, evangelicals, and nearly all Republican politicians."[11] Frank Rich of the New York Times described it as "the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement," William F. Buckley, Jr. found it "the most refreshing ideological experience in a generation,"[25] and Daniel McCarthy of The American Conservative called it "a crisply written indictment of everything its author disliked about conservatism in the early �90s."[9] He is also the author of What's Right (1996) and How We Got Here (2000), a history of the 1970s, which "framed the 1970s in the shadow of World War II and Vietnam, suggesting, 'The turmoil of the 1970s should be understood ... as the rebellion of an unmilitary people against institutions and laws formed by a century of war and the preparation for war.'"[9] Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report praised How We Got Here, noting that "more than any other book� it shows how we came to be the way we are." John Podhoretz described it as "compulsively readable" and a "commanding amalgam of history, sociology and polemic."[26]

In January 2003, he released The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, the first insider account of the Bush presidency. As the title suggests, Frum also discusses how the events of September 11, 2001 redefined the country and the President. Frum writes, "George W. Bush was hardly the obvious man for the job. But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man."

Frum's book An End to Evil was co-written with Richard Perle. It provided a defense of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and advocated regime change in Iran and Syria. Furthermore, it called for a tougher policy with North Korea, as well as advocating a tougher U.S. stance against Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations in order to "win the war on terror" (from the book's subtitle).

In 2008, he published Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, a work which garnered "lavish praise from his friends."[9] Former Congressman David M. McIntosh called "required reading for all GOP candidates."

I printed it out, because a number of people on 24 hr campfire don't click on links.

I'm not sure where you got the notion I liked it, unless you are making that part up.

How long is "many, many years"? 1 year? 3 years? What was the kiss of death for you on Frum? what statement or decision that he made that let you know he wasn't in tune with your vision of the world? What year was that?

Sycamore

but is simply worthless tripe

Frum, like George Will is no Conservative and by his writings proves it. He has like, Juan Williams, a turned coat. Let him be what he is; a Liberal who will vote for BHO.

And Syc is in sync with both.

You besmirch, slander and libel tripe when you say that.

Liberal talk may be "drivel" but it does not rise to the level of tripe.

...the politicians have lost touch with reality...the Republican party no longer represents my value (small government, small spending, and freedoms for all). They are closer to it than the Democrats, but not close enough to earn my support, or respect...
We need a party that fights for a return to the Constitution. Them I could join.

Another piece of [bleep] floats in from blue grass country (as in blue state) LOL get a life loser.