Sullivan's triumph
After he soured on the Iraq war, alpha-blogger Andrew Sullivan vented his rage on the Bush administration. It wasn't pretty. Actually, after a while it got pretty boring. Especially tedious was his sniping at other bloggers who didn't quite see Bush as the incarnation of the Devil. Then it all became monotonous. Eventually, a lot of us simply changed the channel.
When we came back, Sullivan had found Obama and he's been acting like he's got religion ever since. Obama's victory in Iowa is a bet that has paid off handsomely, but it's only part of Sullivan's triumph. He is also turning The Atlantic, once a valuable independent voice, into an Obama hymn sheet. The scary thing about all this, though, is that if Obama loses, Sullivan, and all those who see the candidate of change as some kind of "saviour" will need therapy. God forbid, though, that Huckabee beats Obama. That would be Armageddon and we'd have to read about it every day until 2012. Might be best, then, to let the junior senator from Illinois have his way. A "change" might be as good as a rest in this case. Anything for a quiet life.
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After he soured on the Iraq war, alpha-blogger Andrew Sullivan vented his rage on the Bush administration.
Hmmm, perhaps I misremember, but I thought it was the other way around. The way I remember it, Bush expressed very brief, tepid support for a Constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage (a terrible idea, by the way), and that's when Sully went nutzoid and declared a fatwa (you should pardon the expression) on Bush and all his works.
I only read Sullivan second-hand these days, but I vaguely remember him diving head-first into Bizarro World, embracing virtually every liberal policy while declaring himself one of the Last of the True Conservatives.
Sad, really.
Posted by: Angie Schultz | January 7, 2008 12:15 AM
Your fear of the nature of an Obama defeat is my nightmare. I don't think I could bear to hear for a dozen years afterward how racist the United States is for objecting to electing Obama. Sullivan would hardly be the worst of it.
It seems to my conservative mind now possibly better to let Obama have it even if he turns out to be Atlee, just to get past this.
Posted by: Roy | January 8, 2008 4:00 PM