A $100k job requiring little or no work-- sounds like the right-wing dream machine to me. Here is the bottom line: American Enterprise Institute sends David Frum into the wilderness - War Room - Salon.com: "...You won’t find much of a defense of Buchanan or the paleoconservatives here, but that kind of bombast -- 'war is a great clarifier' -- sure doesn’t look great in retrospect. Frum and his allies weren’t just trying to drum some unsavory types out of the movement. They were also working at making it impossible for a Republican to oppose the party line on the crucial issue of the day -- an issue on which they turned out to be disastrously wrong themselves.
Now that Frum is the right wing's victim, rather than its enforcer, he's easy to sympathize with. But it seems that the fundamental problem is more in the idea that conservatism has to be a monolith at all times. For a movement that has become obsessed with warding off the evils of socialism, the right wing does dearly love a purge."
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