Where’s Weigel ?

“Liberal” Dave having been canned by the Post for truth-telling in private, he’ll be spending this week house-sitting at Sully’s place, along with David Frum. The Daves are already bonding over what fun they’ve had in DC, and unless one of them leaves unfinished cups of coffee in the sink and just expects they’ll be washed by magic or something, it looks like they’re going to enjoy themselves. Watch for furiously incendiary lefty hate-monger Weigel’s avowal that he’s voted Republican in the past, and will be voting Republican again in the future…soon. Hmmm.

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 07/13/10 at 01:08 PM • Permalink

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I think it’s fair to say that Dave Weigel doesn’t really fit in well with any tribe. If you look at Bush’s base of Fundies, Freepers, and Neo-Cons there’s just not a good fit for him.

Frum, on the other hand, seems to fit into the neo-con tribe, at least on the topic of pre-emptive invasion. Also, he’s a twit.

I think people as a rule can forgive a lapse in political ideology for someone who’s witty. Except maybe for the Paultards and Drudge.

Comment by AltHippo on 07/13/10 at 02:18 PM

What AltHippo said. David “Axis of Evil” Frum isn’t fit to clean Weigel’s toilet, in my opinion. But if Weigel enjoys slumming with the likes of Frum, that’s his business.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 07/13/10 at 02:47 PM

@ Betty: That line is meant to go down in infamy, and history may see that Frum goes right down with it, but he’s no longer a classic anything. It’s hard to imagine Frum’s converting to downright Obot, but his divergence from the herd on healthcare reform got him bounced from the American Enterprise Institute, to the delight of a number of cons, neo and otherwise.

The two Davids’ respective firings (oops! Sorry, “resignations!”) are the ostensible hook, though I’d have preferred another Carel/Colbert “Even Stephven” match-up.

Disclosure: When I was a teenager, I met the 16-year-old David Frum, who was friendly, smiley, and sported loafers with the shiniest pennies I have ever seen. He was also, to me, bafflingly conservative even then, and I left it alone because although I knew I was right and he was wrong, but it would have been impolite to point it out.

Also, I was thoroughly outgunned. But I still knew I was right. Later, when he published a book called, “What’s Right,” I thought, “Ha! Me! And if I had a few years to take some poli-sci courses in which I am not interested, and could write a few research papers beforehand and be allowed to read from them, I bet I could trounce you, David Frum!”

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 07/13/10 at 03:38 PM

Mrs. P, if anyone should realize that just because someone waves pom-poms for power-mad neocon scumbags who start pointless wars that kill tens of thousands of people, that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person, it’s me. I’m related to probably a full third of the unreconstructed, birther redneck neo-Confederates in South Carolina and points south, and while they don’t have winning smiles or shiny pennies, they are generous with their pig fat and grits. I laugh now to think I used to consider Frum a scary sort of wingnut.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 07/13/10 at 04:01 PM

I like Dave. Weigel that is.

Comment by gimmeabreak on 07/13/10 at 04:52 PM

Being related to ‘em is more excuseable than being destracted by their shiny pennies, but I was young, what can I say. And Betty, your relations did not put words into the mouths of said power-mad neocon scumbags.

I was friends with David’s grandmother, an elegant lady who was a good old-fashioned liberal with a wicked sense of humor. She discovered emailing, and began spamming me with increasingly conservative Israel-centered forwards, obviously influenced by her extremely and implacably opinionated grandson. How I wish more of her had rubbed off on him instead.