oops, showing a little incompetence in editing my last comment there, do forgive me...

In his last sentence, David Frum says the Repubs. must put forward competent people who care, "which means no more harriet miers, brownie, and sarah palin". Interesting how he seems to have a blind spot for the most incompetent of all, George W Bush.

Also interesting that Mr. Frum does not question the competence and caring of George Bush and John McCain, the men who put forward these candidates, but decided to attack the people themselves, including two of which are women. As a woman who sees a catastrophic failure in our country of showing equitable representation of the female voice in government, I find him a disturbing participant in the sexist tradition of disparaging and discounting women, while letting men off the hook.

As for the competency of Sarah Palin, you may not like her, but all her life she has been very competent at all the jobs she has taken on, including being Governor of Alaska.

Again, I want to emphasize,

So basically David Frum's idea is to make the Republican party more like the Democratic party?