Dec

Oh no! What WILL we do?

The right shed some baggage today, with the abandonment of Andrew Sullivan. It appears as if he has finally been relieved of his perennial confusion between the words “liberal” and “conservative,” “left” and “right.”

A while ago, I believe right before the Iraq war began, I came across an article he had written for The New Republic about why liberals should support the war. (I am going on memory here… I was not able to locate the article, but still this fact remains distinctly in my head.) I liked it, and it was, frankly, one of the more persuasive pieces of political journalism I had read up until that point.

Well, he’s gone way off the reservation since then. I cannot remember the last conservative cause he’s championed. His “goodbye” is a laundry list of Liberal complaints about conservatives, and I wonder how he’d ever call himself a conservative to begin with. (Particularly interesting is this complaint: “I cannot support a movement that does not accept evolution as a fact.” Does Mr. Sullivan really need government to accept this “fact” in order to have a clear conscience? Isn’t it enough that his own Catholic Church accepts it?)

On second thought, maybe this explains it:

“I think that may be because I wasn’t born here. I have no deep loyalty to either American party in my bones or family or background, and admire presidents from both parties. My partisanship remains solely British – I’m a loyal Tory”

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