Logical Gymnastics

Andrew Sullivan surprises nobody with his endorsement of John Kerry.

Except, of course, for the moral incontinence he shows in getting there.

The line that makes me think Sully's finally slipped the surly bonds of reason?

the Democratic Party needs to be forced to take responsibility for the security of the country that is as much theirs as anyone's. The greatest weakness of the war effort so far has been the way it has become a partisan affair. This is the fault of both sides: the Rove-like opportunists on the right and the Moore-like haters on the left. But in wartime, a president bears the greater responsibility for keeping the country united. And this president has fundamentally failed in this respect. I want this war to be as bipartisan as the cold war, to bring both parties to the supreme task in front of us, to offer differing tactics and arguments and personnel in pursuit of the same cause. This is not, should not be, and one day cannot be, Bush's war. And the more it is, the more America loses, and our enemies gain."

Does Sullivan pretend not to know that opposition to any US military intervention, and self-abnegation before other cultures (it's all our fault, you know) are part and parcel of the leftist cant? That you can no more separate these from today's Democrat party than you can detach them from labor unions; it's an integral part of the party's soul. Until that changes - and it won't until the last baby boomer is buried - then Sullivan is hallucinating.

Side Note: Oliver Willis remains a disgrace:

Just stating something for the record. [You have a record?--Ed.] Andrew Sullivan can take his endorsement of John Kerry and shove it. [Cicero weeps--Ed.]This guy was among the most psychophantic [Ollie? It's "sycophantic"--Ed.] of the Bush cheerleaders [When? After 9/11? So was most of the world--Ed.], he was the one flogging the left for having a fifth column [Silly Soros employee - they did have one!--Ed.] when they dared to oppose his beloved Bush, and is responsible for such a litany of smears, distortions, and just pure unadulterated crap that anything coming out of his mouth is subject to the smell test. [Irony, thy name is...oh,it's too easy--Ed.]

And it smells.

I can't stand folks like this, and there's tons of them in the DC media establishment. They have no ideology, [Ghastly, that whole "mental and intellectual agility" thing, innit?--Ed.] but instead jump from movement to movement like the whores they are. No Sullivan, even though it was clear you were content, as long as they gave you the adoration you sought, to be the right's house homosexual ["House homosexual?" Wow.--Ed.] for some time - even as they made quite clear they had no tolerance for your "kind" - this person on the left doesn't want you either. [Your assignment, class, is to diagram the previous sentence. Enjoy.--Ed.] You may not be a hardliner, but you're almost worse - you're an enabler. You did your work for massah [Ironic, coming from one of George Soros' pet seals--Ed.] and now you think its just fine to suit up for the other team.