[David Frum came up with the “Axis of Evil” line for Bush as part of that administrations almost manufactured enemies list (yes, the Axis were enemies of the USA but had very little or no interactions between them so linking them together was to legitimize the Bush Doctrine) but after Frum was fired from the Bush WH he actually to my sensibilities became a voice of reason. So here is a case for me as a former Republican actually accepting the views of people I previously did not agree with which is why I am probably an ex-Republican.]

Bill Maher sympathizes with David Frum over radicalization of the GOP

By Michael Santo on 2012-06-16

Maher said that “The David Frum wing of the Republican Party… they’ve had a tough time in the last few years.’ Maher argued that the GOP has moved so far to the right that President Reagan, who ‘raised taxes, was against nukes – today, that’s Dennis Kucinich.’ In fact, many have said that Reagan could not win the Republican nomination for president in today’s environment. One of those, in fact, was Jeb Bush, who argued that his father (George H.W. Bush) and Ronald Reagan would have a hard time with the current Republican Party.

Frum, for his part, said he felt the problem was a decline in ‘the commitment to the institutions of the United States,’ as the aforementioned presidents were, to Frum, first and foremost ‘institutionalists’ who would not ‘push the country to the edge of bankruptcy’ in order to make a point. Frum, of course, is speaking of things like declining to raise the debt ceiling, which has always been a rubber stamp process. Frum also praised Jeb Bush.

Maher, joking, spoke of George H.W. Bush, saying ‘I remember his father. Dan Quayle was Sarah Palin with tits long before [they had her]. John McCain did not invent the bimbo running mate.’