Who knew that Danielle Crittenden (AKA Mrs. David Frum) was so funny?
Danielle has been shocked, shocked I tell you, at the vitriol heaped on her husband for telling it how he sees it regarding the dumbing down of the Republican Party.
Follow me over the fold to see how this story is playing out, it's tickled me pink.
It's turning into a battle royal between the witty versus the witless.
David Frum got the ball rolling with his 'Waterloo' article.....
http://www.frumforum.com/...
We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.
There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered impossible. How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to murder your grandmother? Or – more exactly – with somebody whom your voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?
David was subjected to a terrible backlash from the hardliners, his wife then wrote an article entitled 'Put Down Your Pitchforks People'
"So fast forward to this week, when conservative hell erupted over David's now infamous "Waterloo" column on the GOP health care defeat. For days I've been sitting here in the bunker beside him (and our three dogs), watching the whizzbangs land all around. What is distressing is not the predictable hate mail he has been receiving -- and thanks to the internet, he's been receiving it in hundredfold; we've both seen that before. What is distressing (to me, anyway) are the dishonest slurs on his character and integrity by people who know him, and in some cases have known him for many years -- truly ugly suggestions that David is motivated by cynicism or sycophancy, or both. (If he were, maybe he'd still be employed...)
We have both been part of the conservative movement for, as mentioned, the better part of half of our lives. And I can categorically state I've never seen such a hostile environment towards free thought and debate -- once the hallmarks of Reaganism, the politics with which we grew up -- prevail in our movement as it does today. The thuggish demagoguery of the Limbaughs and Becks is a trait we once derided in the old socialist Left. Well boys, take a look in the mirror. It is us now."
Danielle has gone a step further, and is now shining some light on the farce that is Sarah Palin. Danielle attended Sarah's event in Hamilton, Ontario on the 15th, and live tweeted the speech.....
http://twitter.com/...
Palin told organizers guests cd not wear jeans. So much for femme de peuple. #tcot
3:34 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Bagpipe entry for head table. Palin enters to piped in John mellancamp "born in a small town" #tcot
4:03 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Toronto Reporter who had exclusive w palin had her interview time cut from 30 to 5 min. Questions had to b submitted in advance. #tcot
4:47 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Our table of journos failed to shell out 4 a $100 of Sarah palin engraved bottle of Ontario wine...
5:41 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Nor did we bid $3500 for a chair graced by the governors posterior... #tcot
5:43 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Tables allowed to submit questions to palin. Our table: who is your favorite Canadian prime minister? We'll c if it gets asked...#tcot
5:48 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Palin just described tea parties as "rowdy and wild." yeesh where has she been attending them? Cancun? #tcot
6:07 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Whoa palin just said that before big speeches on campaign she looked around at her staff and saw "no one to pray with" #tcot
6:09 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
take that secular satinist McCain staff! #tcot
6:10 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
And palin notes familial ties with canadian bootleggers #tcot
6:17 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Battery dying here (along with crowd) but will post more on palin event on frumforum.com tomorrow #tcot
6:22 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Omg palin has rambled on and on about her family, pregnancy, Todd: this is not a speech but ultra-bore at carpool #tcot
6:25 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Did Plato really say "be nice to everyone because everyone has a challenge?" that's Plato according to palin. #tcot
6:34 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
Palin's undisciplined and inane rambling needs to be euthanized like a racehorse with a broken leg. And the Ontario wine doesn't help#tcot
6:43 PM Apr 15th via Twitterrific
There were more but those were the funniest.
Danielle hasn't disappointed, her write up on Frum Forum is a must read.
http://www.frumforum.com/...
It might seem—may I say elitist?—for Palin to flinch from chatting or signing autographs. And it became apparent that this impulse wasn’t, in the end, out of her desire to receive celebrity treatment a la Angelina Jolie or Alex Rodriguez (God forbid a random Joe Six Pack wearing jeans might actually approach her to ask for an autograph!): Clearly, Palin feared any unscripted or unmanaged engagement—and not for what the unscreened person might do or say, more out of her own insecurity about what she might do or say.
snip......
So who cares, really—except that her entire image is based on her own projection of a fearless, moose-dressing, rifle-wielding, backwoods kind of gal who can take it; who indeed can take anything and, with fire and a bit of salt, turn it into a tasty stew. (As she told the tea partiers on the Boston Common last week: "Is this what ‘change’ is all about? I want to tell ‘em: Nah, we’ll keep clinging to our Constitution and our guns and our religion—and you can keep the change.")
snip......
But Palin couldn’t manage it. Her 45-minute speech rambled all over the place, from her challenges as a mother facing a teenage pregnancy and a Downs-syndrome baby to Todd’s Iron Dog racing to the tea partiers to Alaska-Canada ties, wildlife, the Al-Can highway to God helping us take back this nation and stand up for small business, to common sense solutions, to Plato telling us to be nice to others, to getting’ our economy workin’ again, to the importance of community, to ice hockey and the Olympics—in short, her familiar carpool-mother-with-Tourettes-syndrome.
Helpfully, the whole speech was recorded secretly and transcribed by The Globe and Mail. It's a doozy..........
Relatives from Canada, too. We have the foundation of the Palin family, one grandfather was born in Manitoba, this was a farming family there. And then another one born in Saskatchewan and we were some pretty funny stories of our relatives who were bootleggers I guess. This was many, many years ago. Don’t blame me. There’s never a boring story when it comes to the Palins. So much exciting stories that you would hear about how they would live in Canada and Alaska, back and forth
snip......
I didn’t tell anybody I was pregnant until I was seven months along and I knew people thought I was getting chubby but they were too nice to say anything. There we are in February, March, in Alaska and I’m just wearing more layers. They’re just thinking I’m cold all the time and I’m pregnant seven months. And then Trig came five weeks early so people thought I was only pregnant for like three weeks. And to this day some people still don’t think that the baby is my own, believe it or not.
and so, sooo much more, but I'm losing the will to live, go see for yourself.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/...
Now, there has been some talk of Palin being on the Republican ticket for 2012. Heaven help us all, but mostly heaven help the Republicans.
First there was the Palin/Bachmann suggestion....
Palin thinks it sounds "kinda cool"
But wait, Palin finds herself with bigger fish to fry....
http://www.mediaite.com/...
Yesterday the Tea Party Express rolled through the city of Boston, and Sarah Palin, for lack of a better word, was the the celebrity speaker. But it was a comment that she made after her speech, reported by the Boston Herald, that’s sure to drive the media coverage of the day. The only question: would it be Palin-Romney or Romney-Palin?
Hmmmm, looks like her new BFF has already been quit.
Update
The Palinbots aren't amused
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/
Finally, the Frums have been attacking Governor Palin since the 2008 election ended. They remain frustrated that Palin remains one of the most popular figures, if not the most popular figure, within the Republican Party and conservative movement. The Frums are frustrated by the fact that Republicans could win an unprecedented number of seats in the 2010 midterms, notwithstanding the fact that the Frums guaranteed us that Palin's brand of politics would ensure that we would become a permanent minority party. The Frums are frustrated by the fact that conservative and moderate Republicans are proudly wearing the "Party of Hell-No" label as a badge of honor. We have said "hell-no"... to the Frums.
Oh Tee effing Hee!
Thanks for the tips and recs everyone.