Frum Live Chats with Wash Post Readers

Written by David Frum on Tuesday April 6, 2010

On Monday, David Frum took part in a live chat with Washington Post readers, answering questions about the future of the GOP, healthcare reform, and the upcoming UK elections.

This morning, David Frum took part in a live chat with Washington Post readers, answering questions about the future of the GOP, healthcare reform, the federal deficit and the upcoming UK elections.

Castle Rock, Colo.: Mr. Frum, in my first two chances to vote for president I voted for Republicans. That was in the 1980s. Now, though, the party seems so far from the center that I can't imagine voting for its candidates. I haven't changed my views all that much. How likely is it, in your opinion, that we can see a return to a moderate Republican party, the kind that produced Ford and George H.W. Bush, anytime soon?

David Frum: How soon is soon?

I don’t like the term "moderate" - it implies uncertainty, drift, lack of vision. What we need is a MODERN party: as committed to free enterprise as the Reagan party was, but also attuned to new concerns: healthcare and the environment, accepting of the changed role of women, pro-family without being anti-everybody else, and committed to competence in government.