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Conservative Lambastes The Republican Economic Boondoggle
Last Sunday, for the second time in three weeks, the New York
Times presented an economy's-eye view of the election, this time
from David Frum. But although Frum is conservative -- and a
veteran of the Bush White House, where he's often credited for
coining the phrase "the axis of evil" for the president -- he
raised exactly the same damning point that David Leonhardt made
in his article two weeks before.      Frum's analysis is called
"The Vanishing Republican Voter", and it argued that growing
income inequality has caused wealthy voters in long-time
Republican suburbs such as Fairfax, Virginia, to desert the
party. Now, he says, the middle class in the exurbs are
following suit. Ordinarily, inequality isn't a problem for Frum
and his brethren -- in fact, they see it as the virtue of a free
society -- or even, perhaps, for the country at large. "As long
as there exists equality of o