In the previous focus of the Obama administration playground spat with Rush Limbaugh, I'd looked at why I thought the short-term gain for President Obama would give way to long term loss and long term gain for Republicans, and for Rush. Obviously it will take time for that to be borne out. It's a lot easier to gauge the short term gain. It seems the Republican party and conservatives will never be immune to Keystone Cops moments, the most recent blunder being the David Frum
Newsweek hit on Rush.
For shame Mr. Frum. You've played right into the short term benefit of the Democrats - not only do you provide a distraction from the real issues, you sew discord within the conservative ranks. Every word fired in anger at another conservative is a moment wasted that could have been used to fire at the debacle of economic malaise (that's right - I said it), that has began to settle in over the Obama economy.
David Frum spends a paragraph at the beginning of his Newsweek article trying to prove his conservative
bona fides. He even uses the phrase. And the list is impressive. But David Frum you are wrong on this and you have managed to squander in a single article all the
bona fides you listed.
Rush is not assuming the mantle of leadership - he's simply outlining his positions on issues, most of which, if not all, are deeply rooted in conservatism. The fact that you find him bombastic in style is of NO consequence. Not everyone has a Canadian's temperament. And to say that he is not the face of conservatism belies the fact that his accomplishments for conservatism far outweigh your own.
Further, Mr. Frum, you state;
Rush knows what he is doing. The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush
becomes as leader of the ardent remnant. The better conservatives succeed, the
more we become a broad national governing coalition, the more Rush will be
sidelined.
Isn't that exactly what you are trying for your own relevance to do by bombastically disparaging Rush?
Really Mr. Frum, you owe Rush, and all conservatives an apology. Rush is not your enemy. Know your enemy. It is the liberal press, the liberal leadership, and liberal institutions. Use your knowledge to fight the real enemy. Otherwise, don't waste your breath.
