Super Tuesday: Where You Frum?

Tonight on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Stewart interviewed David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, and author of "Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again". Aside from the fact that Frum has a slightly distracting stutter, and looks frighteningly like Chris Kattan, it was actually interesting to hear what he had to say. His message is basically that Republicans need to quit bullshitting people and denying that there are problems with health care and pushing tax cuts that don't help the middle class. Somewhat refreshing. Unfortunately he's advising Giuliani. Take note that an earlier portion of the show focused on the borderline insane amount of times Giuliani invokes the phrase '9/11'. Including during his response to questions about Hillary Clinton's supposed 'breakdown'. Here's a few lines from the interview:

Stewart: Who are you advising in this campaign?

Frum: I'm giving advice to Rudy Giuliani.

Stewart: Ok, I'm Giuliani. You're my guy, I come to you and say 'the old conservatism, that's not working. What do I believe?'

Frum: You believe that the Republicans are the party of the great American middle. The party of national security. They are the party that believes in responding to the concerns that people have, which are that their health care system is broken, income is not rising, the tax cuts that we offer don't make a difference to people in the middle, and that a lot of our national security ideas have not delivered the national security that people need.

Stewart: So when he hears that, does he say to you, 'da...uh... 9/11!'.

Another gem from later in the interview, when the discussion turns to Mike Huckabee's success, and the Republican's fear of him winning the primaries...

Stewart: Is this cynical by the Republican party? They use the evangelical bloc to kinda put them over the top... its almost like... do you watch the Simpsons?

Frum: I'm afraid to say, yes.

Stewart: Ned Flanders. Yeah thats great, you like having him around because he'll do all the leg work, but when it comes down to it you want President Homer.

Frum: I don't think we want President Homer.

Stewart: We have President Homer.


Other important notes:

• After her defeat in Iowa, Clinton bounced back to beat out Obama in the New Hampshire primaries 39% to 36%. Fuck New Hampshire. At least they picked McCain over Romney.
  
• I'm convinced Romney would engage in human trafficking if he thought it might benefit his campaign somehow.
• If Edwards wins South Carolina, Super Tuesday is going to be really interesting.
• Arthur told me at work that someone needs to start a national interest group for people who live solely off their physical or mental labor. Imagine giving low and middle income tax brackets a voice as powerful as the NRA or AARP.
  
• I watch too much Futurama, as evidenced by the fact that I ordered a Futurama poster online today.
  
• Do a search for David Frum on YouTube. Its kind of scary.