i dont have any problem with the mccain campaign steering palin away from hardhitting interviews and press conferences for a little while but david frum is spoton about thisa question i am often asked when i give talks or lectures is why did the bush communication effort end so badly how did an administration that once commanded such public support end by losing all ability to make its casemy answ...
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at nro former bush speechwriter david frum writes from the beginning the internal controversy such as it is over sarah palin has been a controversy not about palin herself but about john mccain. what kind of a decisionmaker is he how much information and consideration does he bring to bear if john mccain gambled on palin without adequate research and preparation the fact that he won his gamble doe...
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david frum writes but even based on what we know already opinion about palins life story will divide sharply. i wrote a column for the weeks online edition suggesting how that opinion will divide. briefly the palin choice will intensify gop support among downscale white voters while adding to the gops difficulties among more educated white voters.a i have a university degree what has got three le...
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frum loved the speech but he is still worried. like the few other conservative thinkers still prepared to think outside party orthodoxy ponnuru brookhiser noonan brooks frum cuts to the chase herefrom the beginning the internal controversy such as it is over sarah palin has been a controversy not about palin herself but about john mccain. what kind of a decisionmaker is he how much information and...
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some serious palin discussions going on. and some serious reevaluation of obama who for all the hype has been underestimated by the press. ruth marcus the spin on mccains choice of the alaska governor is that it reinforces his maverick credentials. i see it the opposite way it undermines them. mccain looks like any other calculating politician willing to do whatever it takes to win. bob her...
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heartbeat by mark r. levin over at his blog david frum asks if it were your decision and you were putting your country first would you put an untested smalltown mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency of course the question is loaded. this small town stuff is odd to me. if a candidate is mayor of a large town does that make her more qualified for the vice presidency or presidency dont we need t...
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im getting a lot of email grief for writing theres a notimplausible case to be made that sarah palin has more experience than ... barack obama and maybe rightly so blog in haste repent at leisure. at the very least theres no question that barack obama has spent more time preparing for high office than sarah palin hes been prepping himself for a race like this since he first entered politics in so...
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its a wild gamble undertaken by our oldest ever firsttime candidate for president in hopes of changing the board of this election campaign. maybe it will work. but maybe and at least as likely it will reinforce a theme that id be pounding home if i were the obama campaign that its john mccain for all his white hair who represents the risky choice while it is barack obama who offers cautious steady...
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in his first presidential decision since he secured the republican nomination five months ago senator john mccain rarizona selected an untested unpredictable and unknown in governor sarah palin. the selection was meant as a cavein to rightwing christian conservatives and a desperate insulting ploy to peel away female voters. the decision is a gamble writes david frum at the national review. the lo...
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dont fall into it dont buy it. do not for one second believe that senator mccains choice of alaskan governor sarah palin as his running mate is anything more than an insulting political pander designed only to get women voters. this just sickens me and seems to be the biggest insult to american people that could happen. even bigger than the insult of the last seven years have been. i cant even...
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david frum palina a the longer i think about it the less well this selection sits with me.a and i increasingly doubt that it will prove good politics.a the palin choice looks cynical.a the wires are showing.a a john mccain wanted a woman good.a a he wanted to keep conservatives and prolifers happy naturally.......
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david frums diary on national review online heres i fear the worst harm that may be done by this selection. the mccain campaigns slogan is country first. its a good slogan and it aptly describes john mccain one of the most......
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not every republican is in denial about what happened today. a mustread. ponnuru too.......
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so far the reaction to the speech seems to be breaking down along partisan lines which makes me mistrust my own it was a letdown response but ought to make obamaphiles mistrust their enthusiasm. i think peggy noonans tempered but ultimately negative take is the best thing ive read so far i also think shes right to say that we wont be able to judge the speechs effectiveness for days or weeks as th...
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regarding my post on mccain and veepstakes andrew writesmccainromney do no harm not in the part of the universe im aware of.just to clarify i think that picking romney would be a mistake and that the gop ticket would be weaker for his presence on it for some though not all of the reasons david frums friend lays out here and for others as well. but romney doesnt come with anything like the risks ...
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david frum was also contacted by al jazeera english recently and his reaction was very similar to mine inside al jazeera. a few minutes later i received an unintended reply. the producer had meant to forward my message to her associates but the forward button is so often hard to distinguish from the reply buttonfrom giti sorayyapour date august 7 2008 104017 am edt to david frum subject ...
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by warner todd huston have you noticed that the old media standby story of the homeless has not been pursued much in the last four or five years some may remember how the media constantly bemoaned the state of the homeless during the reagan and h.w. bush years in office and how the media constantly used this tale as a club with which to beat those two republican presidents over the head. folks li...
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sometimes yes. via david frum and not as he points out the front page of either the times or the post the latest figures show that homelessness dropped by 12 percent between 2005 and 2007 with a particularly sharp decrease in the chronically homeless population. as frum notes a large share of the credit should probably go to the bush administrations homelessness czar philip mangano whose innovativ...
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how can the ny times and many others reporting the story describe the exchange of five live hezbollah militants the cbcs word for the remains of two israeli soldiers as a prisoner exchange those dead are no prisoners. but i suppose moral equivalence must be retained by our objective er journalists. and crikey even david frum does it mark c.......
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thats the question that david frum asksduring the enron collapse of 2002 the public and the media were persuaded that enron was somehow a republican scandal based on little more than senior managements history of contributions to the republican party. the ties between the fannie mae debacle and the democratic party are much more intimate than that. senior democrats chosen for their political con...
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