Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Just Hate Obama and Everything He Stands For

David Frum, a conservative, has regularly attacked people who call themselves conservatives. One of them is David Horowitz. Another is Glenn Beck.

In his latest column, at http://www.newmajority.com/whose-side-is-glenn-beck-on, Frum fisks Horowitz for supporting Beck's on air hysterics, as Horowitz writes, "I would rather have Glenn Beck out there fighting for our side than 10,000 David Frums who think that appeasing leftists will make them think well of us."

"Fighting for our side"? Is this all it's come down to? Frum attacks Horowitz on three points, but it's the third that makes me smile:

"[H]ow do we define 'our side'? Horowitz harshly condemns Obama appointee Van Jones. Van Jones was eventually forced to resign not because of any of the allegations Glenn Beck hurled at him, but because the Gateway Pundit blog unearthed evidence that Van Jones had consorted with 9/11 denialists. So that’s the other side, right? Except… the American politician who most closely associates with 9/11 denialists is Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul. And who acts as Paul’s chief TV enthusiast and publicist? Glenn Beck of course."

If we apply Beck's logic that anyone who denies that Arab terrorists attacked us on 9/11 are not fit to serve in our government, then Ron Paul should resign his seat in Congress immediately. But Beck LOVES Ron Paul. How's that for twisted?

Frum reveals the stark reality that the GOP, the movement conservatives, the right wing, stands for absolutely nothing. Nothing, that is, except anything that for the moment will undermine President Obama.

As Ricky Fitts, played by Wes Bentley, said to his dad, played to perfection by Chris Cooper, in American Beauty: "What a sad, old man you are." I would say the GOP is ideally personified by Chris Cooper's character in that movie.

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