David Frum, AEI SPLIT: Conservative's Position 'Terminated' By Major Think TankFrum is hardly a "moderate".
Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum has resigned from the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, Frum announced on his Web site Thursday afternoon -- a move which suggests the conservative movement has cut ties with Frum over the straight talk he has been providing all week.
Following the passage of health care reform in the House, Frum made waves with a column for CNN.com declaring that health care had proven to been "Waterloo" for the GOP, not for Obama as Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) infamously suggested. Republican lawmakers quickly dismissed Frum, a prominent reformist conservative, as a mere "former staffer."
Then Frum said on "Nightline" that the Republican Party's lockstep with the Fox News attack machine has hurt the party, and that "we're discovering we work for Fox." That may have been the last straw for AEI.
It's comforting to know that even the "intellectual" branch of the GOP cannot tolerate dissent, insists on ideological purity on all things & at all times, and cannot recognize political pragmatism when it sees it.
That these characteristics of the Tea Party have been adopted by AEI is a good thing!
No comments:
Post a Comment