Conservative Turncoat List Grows

The list of "turncoat" conservatives keeps growing.

Last year, Colin Powell, Peggy Noonan, David Gergen, Christopher Buckley, Kathleen Parker, David Brooks committed sins of either a.) giving lukewarm (or no) support for the McCain-Palin ticket, b.) badmouthed Gov. Palin, c.) gave lukewarm (or enthusiastic) support for Barack Obama or d.) claiming Obama will govern as a centrist like Clinton did.

Now the list just got a new addition: David Frum. Frum committed the sin of personally attacking Rush Limbaugh following Limbaugh's speech before CPAC last weekend. Frum had his head handed to him last night when he called into the Mark Levin Show. Mark Levin made hamburger out of Frum. To hear the audio of the Levin-Frum exchange, go to the Mark Levin Show link on this page.

The trouble with most of these people, they like to curry favor with the elites in the Beltway and be invited to the posh cocktail parties. But it certainly does not help them with their own readership members. In fact, they have lost a lot of followers. True conservatives with principles will never take their views seriously again.

Since Obama and the Democrats have passed socialist legislation, supposedly to remedy the recession, Christopher Buckley has come out disavowing his backing for Obama. Too little, too late. His dad, William F. Buckley, must be spinning in his grave.

As Peter Robinson wrote this week at Forbes.com:

Contrast Buckley, Gergen and Brooks with, let us say, Rush Limbaugh, whose appearance at any chic cocktail party would cause the hostess to faint dead away, or with Thomas Sowell, who occupies probably the most unfashionable position in the country, that of a black conservative.

Limbaugh and Sowell both got Obama right from the very get-go. "Just what evidence do you have," Sowell replied when I asked, shortly before the election, whether he considered Obama a centrist, "that he's anything but a hard-left ideologue?"

The elite journalists, I repeat, got Obama wrong. The troglodytes got him right. As our national drama continues to unfold, bear that in mind.