baleen

David Frum is one of the Republicans most prominent intellectuals.
It is rather like if William F. Buckley renounced the Republican Party.
Oh wait, that happened too.

Richmond
In my defence, I didn't know what kind of notoriety David Frum has in the States. He's Canadian, so we all know who he is up here. I just followed the clip's lead and used the same introduction it did.

And when this went into the hopper, the only information available was that he reported to Andrew Coyne that he'd been fired, and he wrote a "resignation" letter that ended with "I do regret this abrupt and unexpected conclusion of our relationship." The resignation spin came after the submission.

StanleyPain
Yeah I would "resign" too after I had been told I wouldn't have a position there anymore and that any attempts to keep any sort of position with the organization would be met with refusal, hostility, and basically being fired.

Meerkat
Also, a compensation plan that includes a substantial number of zeroes. No other digits, just zeroes.

Camonk
"Republican intellectual"

Good one, baleen.

SteamPoweredKleenex
Speechwriting for Bush is one of his more infamous tasks, though. He's the one who came up with the "Axis of Evil."

APE_GOD
Stanley,

He had stopped contributing to AEI while developing his own blog and website; probably for all of the reasons listed here. AEI didn't like that and offered him an unpaid position, basically so his name would be affiliated with the institute.

He turned it down.

Camonk:

HURR DURR REPUBLICANS CANT BE INTELLECTUALS

you should read more.

Wonko the Sane
SPK: To be fair, his original SOTU speech had it as "Axis of Terror", but it wasn't deemed forceful enough, so we got "Axis of Evil" instead.

Colonel Cowlung
Anyone associated with the Bush administration should carry that association like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives.

Camonk
I think it's obvious. I'm not a conservative. Ergo, conservatives disagree with me. Ergo, they can't be as smart as I. So they're not intellectuals. It's logically impossible. Maybe, Ape God, YOU should read more! Read a little bit about, oh, the MILLENIA OLD study of LOGIC.

APE_GOD
Using Palin-like circular reasoning to distance yourself from modern conservatism! Brilliant!

baleen

There used to be a conservative intellectual movement. It's dead now.

Camonk
Thanks, Ape God! I also like to think of myself as brilliant! I like having my opinions confirmed by internet people!

The Mothership
Yea, wow.