Frum on NY-23 and the conservative dilemma
by Brian Mann on November 17th, 2009
David Frum is a staunch conservative – and a great critic of the conservative movement’s recent melodramas.
In a column for CNN, he puts the NY-23 race in a national context, and includes this gem:
A few days ago, I was talking to a roomful of young conservatives about the crisis. All agreed in denouncing both the bank bailouts done under TARP and the stimulus. I asked: OK fine — what was the alternative?
There was a short pause, and then somebody laughed: “I guess it’s lucky that we weren’t in power.”
That’s not much of a motto for a would-be national governing coalition. If all we conservatives have to offer is oppositionism, then opposition is the job we’ll be assigned to fill.
Read the entire essay here.
