So, a fair amount of blogosphere mileage was produced last week by AEI's firing of David Frum -- either for not doing enough to promote AEI activities or because of his denunciation of Republican health care strategy. Adopting the latter view, his wife, Danielle Crittenden rallies to his side at The Huffington Post.
A mini-war has broken out at The Daily Beast, with Tunku Varadarajan blasting Frum as a pseudo-conservative who just wants to be loved by the liberal establishment. Meanwhile, Christopher Buckley defends Frum as "just what the [conservative] movement needs now more than ever --- a contrarian."
Far be it from me to disagree with the son of the man who basically built 20th century conservatism, but Buckley is only half-right (no pun intended). The movement may be in dire need of a contrarian. But Frum's problem was that he was the worst person to fill that role.
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# posted by Robert A. George @ 7:00 AM
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