Ex-Bush Speechwriter Frum "Terrified" By Current GOP Landscape

[CatWoman]

As a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former speechwriter for President Bush, you’re surprisingly critical of him in your new book, claiming he has appointed “consistently mediocre people” to important jobs and made “a shambles” of the Iraq war. Do you see the book as a mea culpa? No. Mea culpa is a kind of hand-wringing, breast-beating, woe-is-me attitude that I don’t share. What I am saying is that there is exhaustion, intellectual exhaustion on the part of Republicans and conservatives.


And that their long winning streak in Congress has ended? What I am terrified of is that the Republican Party is heading into a period of political defeat. We lost the election in 2006. I am terrified that we can lose the election in 2008. We can lose in 2012, and it will take us half a dozen years to do the rethinking we need to do.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06wwln-Q4-t.html?ex=1357275600&en=790828ebacd1d2d2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

[LynnTheDem]

1. Yes, a Republic loss would be "terrifying" coz they've done such a

bang-up job of things.

What the fucking hell is with these people??!

[OneGrassRoot]

2. "intellectual exhaustion" ?? really ??? n/t

[rurallib]

4. rove's not there to tell them what to do

My favorite oxymoron is "conservative intellectual". Kristol is often described as a "conservative intellectual".

[Richard Steele]

12. 'Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt' nm

[formercia]

13. You can only do so much with 3 brain cells

and the Draft is out of the question.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

15. smell something burning?

that's just a Republican trying to think real good.

[OneGrassRoot]

16. LOL!

:spray:

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Another Neocon blaming everything on Bush's incompetence. Couldn't have been the crazy-ass ideas of

AEI!

[Wednesdays]

5. He's terrified? Good!

:nopity:

[RuleOfNah]

17. Terrified is code for "Republicans are going to jail".

:popcorn:

[movonne]

6. I think he is part of the DLC....

[YOY]

10. All the more reason for us to vote DNC and force the Rs to come back to where Hillary and Obama are

I'm sick of us moving further to the right of the axis just because Reagan started preaching to the Religious nuts in the 80s.

Let them reap what they sow. They deserve it.

[Jane Austin]

11. No, you are thinking of Al From.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Then he should vote Dem.

The republican party is a thing of the past.
Get over it.

[CatWoman]

8. ....

:rofl:

[bahrbearian]

9. You can't Exhaust what you don't posses.,,i.e. Intelligence

[SpiralHawk]

14. "D'oh. Your point is well taken." - Commander AWOL