Our savior.
Via Daily Caller:
David Frum, the George W. Bush speechwriter turned fierce critic of the GOP, says he wants to save the conservative movement from itself.
“I still think of myself as a conservative,” Frum told The Daily Caller. “And I think a lot of what I’ve been pursuing for the past five years is a politics intended to advance some very traditional conservative goals.”
Once one of the GOP’s most prominent intellectuals, Frum’s relentless and very public attacks on the right in recent years have been greeted with much fanfare from his former enemies on the left. The masthead for his website, FrumForum, highlights the glowing assessments he has received from a number of prominent liberals like Salon editor Joan Walsh, and he recently published a piece in New York magazineblasting what he calls conservatism’s “alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.”
But Frum says he’s not interested in simply critiquing the right. He’s looking to change it and win converts to his way of thinking, while admitting his strategy for doing so may be flawed.