Frum was one of the loudest beaters of the drums for the Bush and Cheney destruction of America, and the neo-con takeover of our government. Appears he realizes already that McCain is going down in flames, and says so bluntly in the Washington Post. In a nutshell, he calls on the Republican party to abandon McCain to his fate and try to save the women and children.

Frum has been a leading right wing writer, e.g. his blog at the National Review.

The National Review? Oh, that would be the most famous conservative magazine, founded by William Buckley. Whose son, Christopher, came out of the conservative closet and announced for Obama last week, and was rewarded the bastion of free thought he worked for, his father’s magazine, by being summarily fired.

Sorry, Senator. Let’s Salvage What We Can.

There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him.

A year ago, the Arizona senator’s team made a crucial strategic decision. McCain would run on his (impressive) personal biography. On policy, he’d hew mostly to conservative orthodoxy, with a few deviations — most notably, his support for legalization for illegal immigrants. But this strategy wasn’t yielding results in the general election. So in August, McCain tried a bold new gambit: He would reach out to independents and women with an exciting and unexpected vice presidential choice.

That didn’t work out so well either. Gov. Sarah Palin connected with neither independents nor women. She did, however, ignite the Republican base, which has come to support her passionately. And so, in this last month, the McCain campaign has

Palinized itself to make the most of its last asset. To fire up the Republican base, the McCain team has hit at Barack Obama as an alien, a radical and a socialist.

Sure enough, the base has responded. After months and months of wan enthusiasm among Republicans, these last weeks have at last energized the core of the party. But there’s a downside: The very same campaign strategy that has belatedly mobilized the Republican core has alienated and offended the great national middle, which was the only place where the 2008 election could have been won.

I could pile up the poll numbers here, but frankly . . . it’s too depressing. You have to go back to the Watergate era to see numbers quite so horrible for the GOP.