comebackThis the third installment in my series on David Frum’s Comeback. I should have finished this book by now because it is a really quick and easy read. But I’ve been sidetracked lately and haven’t been able to put as much time in as I would have liked.

So far I’ve been a little disappointed at the lack of revelation in this book. But Frum surprised me on pages 57 and 58. Here he talks extensively about term limits. Republicans were once advocates of term limits, but lost the faith after a court defeat and thei own ascendancy to power in congress. Frum argues convincingly that this was a mistake and that conservatives should champion a constitutional amendment limiting terms for Congress AND the Supreme Court.

He is spot on here. The failure of conservatives is intimately linked to their losing credibility as the party AGAINST government. Frum writes on page 58: “Our party, the party of the great American middle, should be the party that reminds America’s increasingly self-perpetuating political elites for whom they work and whose values and interests they must honor.”

Indeed.