July 26, 2004
Tying himself in knots...
Hindrocket at PowerLine writes:
For a while, Andrew Sullivan was a powerful and effective pro-national security, and mostly conservative, voice. His web site was one of the inspirations that prompted me to start blogging. But once the possibility of gay marriage opened up, Andrew could think of little else. It has been obvious for the past year that he has been preparing to endorse the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be. Andrew may or may not be fooling himself when he paints a pro-security veneer on his support for John Kerry, but he isn't fooling anyone else.He's referring to this post by Sullivan, who is going through ludicrous contortions to try to justify dumping most of what he has professed to believe in favor of a single issue. He would do better to just be honest, rather than trying to convince us that Kerry is "the conservative choice."
Update: I notice that the other Sullivan has taken the trouble to pour some cold water on Andrew S's logic...
All else being equal, Bush deserves to loose on his support of a Destruction of Marriage amendment alone. You and I may well agree that all else is not equal, but I find it interesting that Mr. Sullivan is coming to the conclusion that Marriage may be the only issue on which there is difference between the candidates...
Posted by: Andrew Cory at July 26, 2004 02:31 PMI respect Andrew a lot. It never crossed my mind that he would flip/flop. I know he has gone over board on this gay marriage thing. This election is about more than just one issue. That issue is important to him and respect that. But I never thought he would become a one trick pony. He has a contribution campaign going on now; I hope that is not a prelude to him going to the other side. I have given in the past but I will be waiting to see what he does before I contribute again. Please Andrew, don't disappoint me.
Posted by: DaveWI at July 26, 2004 02:49 PM
