Andrew Sullivan: Still Trying To Rationalize A Kerry Vote
Here are his thoughts on Bush’s speech. I don’t even care enough to rip into him on this, because I’ve been sick of the guy for the better part of a year. Allah Pundit has perhaps the best response to Sullivan, quoted verbatim below:
And lo and behold, the sage of Provincetown has weighed in with a surprise rave review. But hold on: The overall message was “Orwellian”; the convention “xenophobic”; and, after close, careful deliberation and an eminently fair-minded assessment of what he’s seen the past four days (he did say he loved the speech, didn’t he?), he’s decided that he can’t support George W. Bush for re-election . . . because of gay marriage. Knock Allah over with a supernatural fucking feather.
I will say that I think Sullivan has dropped support for Bush on more than just the gay marriage thing, and I can certainly understand his trepidation as he is, in fact, gay and would like to be married at some point. However, his analysis of the Kerry Democrats as the “party of fiscal conservatives” is silly at best and monsterously delusional at worst. Maybe Sullivan’s focus on one issue that, quite frankly, most people don’t care about (and again, yes, I know exactly why he does and I agree with him on the issue of gay marriage generally) has blinded him to the rest of the race as a whole.
