Comments on: Andrew Sullivan Finally Moves to the Left

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New York Times Hires Ross Douthat: Breakthrough for Bloggers? at Blog P.I. — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:15:14 +0000

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By: JC

JC — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:01:12 +0000

I’m guessing if Andrew wasn’t there he would have omitted “center”. That’s his current perception by the fact that he’s an Obama supporter.

By: ECM

ECM — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:13:46 +0000

I love when non-conservatives like Otto presume to instruct the rest of us on what conservatism actually is--I imagine we're now supposed to 'see the light' and start worshipping the One, true, god like Sullivan.

But what is especially rich is his defense of the man that has obsessed about the paternity of the fifth child of the recent (R) VP candidate to the exclusoin of pretty much everything else, includling his sanity and the tattered remains of his credibility.

(Bush did what Sullivan wanted in Iraq, and only turned on the man when he didn't support his radical gay agenda around the time of the '04 election, so let's not imply that there was some other reason for the man's not-remotely-recent flip to the nutty truther side of the political spectrum.)

By: Ottovbvs

Ottovbvs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:42:28 +0000

Sullivan is a bright guy and very good writer. You can’t beat that Oxford education. He’s a pragmatic conservative who realized some of his gods were false, most notably Bush and Iraq, and had the guts to say so whereas most conservative chose to deny reality and have paid an electoral price for it. I don’t agree with much of what he says, and he has obsessions like religion and gay rights, but at least he’s not wandering off into some alternate reality like most conservatives. Take a tour round the comments on “the dinner” in the conservative blogosphere and there’s clearly a full scale retreat in to mindless obstructionism going on. I’d say this is exactly where Obama wants the GOP positioned. It will be interesting to see this dynamic play out as “the activist base” of the party as represented by much of the blogosphere attempt to purge the RINO’S like Sullivan or try to force them to convert to the true faith. Interesting but not to the GOP’s electoral advantage I would have thought.

By: RyanT.

RyanT. — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:23:17 +0000

To believe Andrew Sullivan is a conservative, is to believe that pigs can fly and liberals have brains. It is utter and complete fantasy!

Sullivan endorsed that ardent conservative John Kerry, (who btw served in Vietnam), and that other right winger Barack Obama.

Only in an Orwellian world could Andrew Sullivan be described as "conservative."

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:24:28 +0000

Sullivan only went because they said they were serving drinks and surf & turf, and he thought they said “Trig’s afterbirth.”

By: Deanj

Deanj — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:26:47 +0000

Yeah, Poodle… Just like you!

By: Bosch's Poodle

Bosch's Poodle — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:07:40 +0000

This silly gotcha blog post is dispositive of nothing. Andrew Sullivan is what he is, and if you had an ounce of intellectual integrity you'd deal with his arguments and not declare victory based on a list of who was in his dinner group.

PS: Everybody knows who Andrew Sullivan is, and nobody knows who you are, because your ideas are of no consequence.

By: Andrew Sullivan Outed?

Andrew Sullivan Outed? — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:58:00 +0000

[...] William Beutler says, “Aha!” Could that really be Andrew Sullivan? As in “conservatism of doubt” Andrew Sullivan? Author of “The Conservative Soul” Andrew Sullivan? The same Andrew Sullivan whose strident advocacy for the Iraq war made him one of the most influential voices among the online conservative commentariat? Who among us could ever have imagined the day would come when Andrew Sullivan would break with his ideological compatriots and move to the left? [...]

By: Mike G

Mike G — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:48:24 +0000

Sullivan ain’t liberal or conservative instead he really has only one issue and that is what policies best serve gays. If George Bush has been an ardent supporter of gay marriage, Sullivan might have supported him to the end. Who knows how long he will reside on the left?