David Frum On Republican Presidential Candidates

January 10, 2008 

The Facts  

David Frum was a guest this morning on CNN. He was speaking on his prospective of the Republican Presidential candidates. In reference to the candidates who are always quoting and referring to Ronald Reagan, he said they need to stop talking about Reagan and the problems he solved and start talking about our modern day problems. Frum also said that if the Republicans do not start focusing on the man making $44K a year, they were going to be in big trouble. He went on to point out that if the candidates did not wake up, they were going to loose and loose big in the General election in November.  

My View 

In order to understand the significance of David Frum’s words, you need to know who he is. First, he is the author of “The Right Man”, which is a book about George Bush. The book is extremely favorable of Bush. Frum wrote the book as if Bush was the greatest President who ever lived. He also authored several other books that are supportive of the Bush administration. In fact, you could almost say that his books have served as the agenda for the Bush administration. He’s credited as the one that coined the phrase “axis of evil”, although his original word was “hatred”. Frum was appointed to a position in the Bush White House right after Bush was elected President, even though Frum is a Canadian citizen. He served as an economic speechwriter for Bush. He currently serves as a senior foreign policy adviser to Rudy Giuliani.  

I went through all these credentials of David Frum for a purpose other than trying to convince you how “extreme Republican” he is. My other purpose is this; if Frum has opened his eyes wide enough to see what the real issues are in our country, you have to wonder what Bush, Cheney, and all the Republican candidate’s problem is. Frum is finally honest enough to see and admit that the current administration has totally ignored the working class of America because they have been too focused on taking care of the wealthy and big businesses. In fact, if history is truthfully written, it will say that Bush and Cheney’s only accomplishments during their eight years of service to the country was eight years of serving the wealthy and big business. When they walk out of office on January 1, 2009, there should be hundreds of truckloads of cash lined up out front as gifts to these two criminals from those they have served.  

I actually don’t expect to see any of the Republican candidates change. Mike Huckabee is the only one that has had the guts to admit that the current administration is seriously flawed, and he has been heavily chastised for saying those things. These extremist Republicans will never give up the flawed idea that the only way to keep America solid is to continue their support of the wealthy and big business at the expense of the middle and lower class. That is the reason I don’t think Huckabee will win the nomination. The hard core Republican machine will demonize Huckabee to the point that the Republican voters will be afraid of him. Or, at the very least, make the voters think the party will not support him once he is in office. In other words, if it means giving up taking care of the wealthy and big businesses, the Republican Party is willing to go down with the ship. They will believe that their friends can take care of themselves well enough for the next four years while the party is busy under minding a Democratic administration enough to vote them out of office next time around. It’s worked before.