Conservative Blogger David Frum Sticks it to Newt Gingrich

It’s not so much that I am a hard core liberal; it’s that modern day American conservatives are so damn intolerable. When I hear the venomous spew flowing forth from the mouths of Fox News pundits, I can’t help but to wonder, are they that stupid, or that sinister? Are they stupid in the sense that they are in such poor command of the facts that they can’t analyze a matter without completely missing the mark? Or is it that they know better and are deliberately twisting facts, and falsely coloring their analysis with the intent to misinform scared, white people to vote for conservative extremist?

David Frum, a long time conservative, and former speech writer for President George W. Bush, appears to be the kind of conservative that is sorely needed in this day and time. He is the kind that isn’t scared to show that he can think on his own, and has the courage to stray from the daily conservative talking points memo. Of course, it was this kind of behavior that allegedly got him fired from his posh job at the American Enterprise Institute in March 2010 for criticizing the Republican rhetoric on the health care debate.

Here is a recent post authored by Frum published at his blog, FrumForum, entitled, Obama Wants Whitey’s Money.

Newt Gingrich upped the rhetoric against the president on Friday night. Interviewed by National Review’s Robert Costa, Gingrich cited Dinesh D’Souza’s cover story in Forbes.

Gingrich says that D’Souza has made a “stunning insight” into Obama’s behavior — the “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama.”

“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” Gingrich tells us.

“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Gingrich continues. “In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”

With the Forbes story and now the Gingrich endorsement, the argument that Obama is an infiltrating alien, a deceiving foreigner – and not just any kind of alien, but specifically a Third World alien – has been absorbed almost to the very core of the Republican platform for November 2010.

Rush Limbaugh has been claiming for almost 2 years that President Obama is bent upon “redistribution” and “reparations.” Following D’Souza, Gingrich has now stepped up to suggest that this redistribution is motivated by anti-white racial revenge. If Obama wants to expand health coverage, tighten bank regulation, and create government make-work projects it’s not because he shares the same general outlook on the world as Walter Mondale or Ted Kennedy or so many other liberals, living and dead, all of them white and northern European. No, Obama wants to do what he does because he thinks like an African, and not just any kind of African but (in D’Souza’s phrase) “a Luo tribesman.”

It is to vindicate this African tribal dream that Obama wishes to raise the taxes of upper-income taxpayers and redistribute money away from these meritorious individuals. D’Souza contends that Obama is acting to vindicate his father’s supposed dream of overthrowing the global order and ending the global domination of the white race over other peoples.

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Earlier this year, Gingrich deployed the phrase “secular socialist machine.” Adopting as his own D’Souza’s new epithet about “the ideology of the Luo tribesman” revs Gingrich’s attack into a higher gear. It would be very characteristic of Gingrich to road-test the new concept with friendly journalists and audiences. If they applaud, we’ll hear more of it.

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As for the underlying D’Souza article that inspired Gingrich, what is there to be said? When last was there such a brazen outburst of race-baiting in the service of partisan politics at the national level? George Wallace took more care to sound race-neutral.

Though I wouldn’t venture to say that David Frum and I are birds of a feather, it is refreshing to see that conservatives with intellectual integrity aren’t extinct; just on the endangered species list.

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