What Next for the Republican Party? - David Frum

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/01/Contemporary_American_Conservatism

Former National Review Online contributing editor David Frum argues that modern conservatism may have arrived at the "end of an era," and attributes its waning support with the American public to an unwillingness to adapt to new problems over time.

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Liberal commentator E.J. Dionne moderates a discussion on why contemporary conservatism has gotten off track during the eight years of the Bush administration and how "true" conservatism can be restored to prominence.

Panelists David Frum, Mickey Edwards, and Ross Douthat consider what it means to call oneself a conservative in today's America and what it could mean in the coming years.

David Frum is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing editor to National Review, a columnist for Canada's National Post newspaper, and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph in Great Britain and to National Public Radio in the United States. He is also the author of the new book, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, forthcoming in January from Random House.

From January 2001 to February 2002, David Frum was special assistant to President Bush for economic speechwriting.

Frum was an editor on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal from 1989 until 1992. In 1992-1994, Frum wrote the law column at Forbes magazine. Between 1994 and 2001, Frum was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research.

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[ryanspeed]

I'm a lifelong conservative republican and all I can say is that the republican party had damn well better get their act together come 2012!

Most notably, they need to quit running these old worn out has-been men like John McCain!

[seamoremonster]

What? I don't believe this, an intelligent sounding Republican? Yes softer on socialist remedies and stronger action for the environment.  But Republicans needed their asses kicked before they finally woke up that they were anachronisms no longer providing solutions to current problems.

[Texfield91]

@gundamWWW i meant "do IT legally"

[Texfield91]

@gundamWWW Yeah, of corse we do! That's why we are the most ardent supporters of Israel in the US, support school choice for inner city children (mostly minorities), and think that people immigating into our country should, you know, do legally (i know, its a novel idea). what an idiot.

[gundamWWW]

@ryanspeed

The Tea Party won't listen to David Frum. They hate jews, blacks, mexicans, college educated people and any with a highschool diploma.

[karlkarlkarl1234]

It baffles me why anyone would take this egotistical moron Frum who is on the payroll of the Zionist lobby and who has been caught out & proven as a deliberate LIAR to the American people seriously. His LIE that "Iraq has nukes" led to the murder of over 1,000,000 people and countless billions of US taxpayer money.

AND PEOPLE TAKE THIS GUYS WORD SERIOUSLY?! He is about as trust-worthy as all Zionist scum-bags whose sole purpose is to draw America into more wars for ISRAEL.

[derberg19486]

Another know it all Heeeebrew and always with the smerky I am too good for you asshole attitude. They wonder why a thousand years of hate. Oh why are we hated, duh!

[debaser71]

fuck you david frum

fuck you conservative douche bags

go egg on pyscho's to murder or something

fucking assholes

[ryanspeed]

@hempartist420 I know...but until someone better comes along he's the lesser of the evils!

[hempartist420]

@ryanspeed I was kidding anyway, and Romney? Romney believes in magic underpants

[wntoply6]

@ryanspeed i wish you were correct (i hesitate in using the word right) ryanspeed, but the "christian"republican party has yet to make that distinction yet. you may have, but the party HAS NOT!

[ryanspeed]

@wntoply6 I'm a Christian but I'm no radical nut!

Falwell, Robertson, Swaggart, Bakker and a whole host of other loonies like these are the type of fools who have given Christianity a black eye! When you let idiots like these in charge things can (and did) take a turn for the worse both for the Republican Party and Christianity as a whole. Yet after decades of deceit I think people are finally waking up and seeing them for the imposters they are!