I'd stopped taking the magazine seriously long before then, but this was the proverbial nail in the coffin.

Nails in the coffin are more of a gradual process.

I think we're looking at "jumping the shark" on this one. No?

Is there a worse pundit than Kathryn Jean Lopez? She's a joke. What serious organization would have her on their rolls?

Worse yet, it may actually BE the cradle for conservative intellectuals.

I still think that Sarah Palin was speaking to me directly that night, which is why I can't wait for that cache of semi-automatics to arrive, as well as the manual I ordered for how to turn them into full Palinomatics.

This election has just begun, people!!

Conservative Intellectual is an oxymoron on the order of military justice or jumbo shrimp.

Worse yet, it may actually BE the cradle for conservative intellectuals.

As Kung Fu Monkey said: "Modern American Conservatives have sunk to the intellectual and emotional level of the guy who thinks the stripper really likes him."

Cross-posted with Cap'n Chucky, obviously.

"I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated," he said.

Adding, "I thought they would have been totally into the War and Fear platform Richard Perle and I brought to the table."

To my dying day I'll never understand the American Conservative's fascination with Canadian Tory Stooges like Frum and Steyn...

that being said, anybody else get the feeling that Frum is trying to position himself as the new Buckley?

I love the smell of wingnut purges in the morning.

Or at any other time of day, for that matter.

I am loath to argue, having been attacked in Limbaugh-ish manner too many times during and post Ray-gun but I DO want to ask some of my co-workers and one friend (an eye surgeon who volunteers in poor communities his skills for at least two weeks of every year) how they can possibly live with themselves. That any sentient being could have taken Palin or McCain seriously just defies all logic.

"Conservative intellectuals"

There is no such beast or it is some kind of Yeti; mythical and mysterious and extremely camera shy. The National Review is (and in my opinion has always been) nothing but a culture war conduit high on itself.

"Conservative intellectuals." Aren't they the ones who went right along with vilifying academics, scholars, experts, scientists, and "the elites"? Aren't they the same bunch who cheered at every one of G.W. Bush's hare-brained schemes and then doubled-down by clapping their flippers in antic delight at every stupid thing mouthed by the astonishingly ignorant Sarah Palin?
Intellectuals: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Lowry caught one of those little starbursts and keeps it safe in his pocket.

Buckley was such a dick. I once saw Buckley laughing on his TV show at a civil rights leader who talked about rats at night in poor kids' rooms in Harlem. It did not send little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the my living room.

My only prolonged exposure to David Frum was his appearance on Rachel Maddow's show last month, wherein he made a complete ass of himself trying to compare the tone of Maddow's show to the hateful anti-Obama outbursts that were being heard at Palin and McCain rallies. (!!!)

MADDOW: Do you think that my tone on this show is equivalent to people calling Barack Obama somebody who pals around with terrorists, people yelling from the audience at McCain-Palin rallies, Bomb Obama. Kill him. Off with his head. Traitor. Are you accusing me of an equivalence in tone?

FRUM: I don’t think that’s an important question. I think the question is, given the small plate of responsibility that you personally have, how do you manage that responsibility? The fact that other people fail in other ways is not an excuse for you failing in your way.

I have no idea where on the internet this clown will wind up at but I wouldn't even waste a mouse click on him or anything he writes.

Worse yet, it may actually BE the cradle for conservative intellectuals.
Posted by: martin on November 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM
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Worse for who ? Palin energized the people who were already on her side and were going to vote. The republican party is finally exposed for being the party of race baiters whose base consists of racists and religious zealots who want the government run by religion.

The backlash from Prop 8 has been unheard of and the backlash of minority bashing won this election. Not that the inequalities are not disgusting, but the fact that they can't keep their agendas hidden to me is cause for celebration.

Hip Hip Hurray... I hope Mad Dog Santorum becomes their national spokesman and leader.

I agree. Lowry jumped the shark, big time.

Will he ever be taken seriously again? I sure hope not.

Conservative Intellectual is an oxymoron

Jonah Goldberg is considered a conservative intellectual. QED.

i give them credit for adding a new term to the discussion: "k-lo's house of crazy." gets me every time...[starbursts, even....]

"I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated,"

and by railing against education and intelligence, and idolizing vacuous dolts for a generation, as well as abusing the young with senseless wars and manipulation of people's private lives Frum expected republicans to win support from exactly whom other than the demented sickos of the far out right wing whack pack extremists?
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Remember why the National Review was started--Buckley did not want to give equal rights to blacks. That would, somehow take away rights from hin abd other extremely rich white people.

Yes, you can look it up.

And one only need to look at their terror about gays being able to enter into a contract called marriage to see that their bigotry and fear continue.

The national review and the conservative "movement" have always been contemptible.