{"id":1791,"date":"2007-12-18T04:24:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T09:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2007-12-18T04:24:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T09:24:57","slug":"divorcing-your-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":"Divorcing Your Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan is my blogfather, as I’ve noted in many, many places.\u00a0 I started Shot In The Dark <\/em>hours after reading “The Dish” for the first time, inspired by his take (at the time) on events and by the newfound technology that allowed any schlump with an internet connection to hang out a shingle as a pundit.<\/p>\n

And while I’ve become estranged from my blogfather, as his true, not-very-conservative (or, rather, “conservative” that bears no relation to my own flavor of the movement) beliefs took over his presentation – I’ve honestly read The Daily Dish <\/em>maybe twice in the last four years – I’ve always kept that notion in the back of my head; he’s this blog’s Dad.<\/p>\n

And now, I’m done.\u00a0 Sullivan shows us he’s working for the other side, in his rationalization for “endorsing” Ron Paul<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I admire McCain in so many ways. He is the adult in the field, he is attuned to the issue of climate change in a way no other Republican is, he is a genuine war hero and a patriot, and he bravely and rightly opposed the disastrous occupation policies of the Bush administration in Iraq. The surge is no panacea for Iraq; but it has enabled the United States to lose the war without losing face. And that, in the end, is why I admire McCain but nonetheless have to favor Paul over McCain. Because on the critical issue of our time – the great question of the last six years – Paul has been proven right and McCain wrong. And I say that as someone who once passionately supported McCain’s position on the war but who cannot pretend any longer that it makes sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing, if only to pound a stake through the heart of whatever admiration you may once have had for the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan is my blogfather, as I’ve noted in many, many places.\u00a0 I started Shot In The Dark hours after reading “The Dish” for the first time, inspired by his take (at the time) on events and by the newfound technology that allowed any schlump with an internet connection to hang out a shingle as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}