Andrew Sullivan

I also want to mention that when I started this sporadic attempt at a blog, one of my fixations was Andrew Sullivan - namely because he is by far one of the sanest conservative voices I've ever read. And yet constantly I would read his blog and read him defending the worst outrages of this administration's handling of Iraq (among other things) He, like so many conservative pundits, was all too painfully willing to put on the rosy shades that the Administration wants everyone to wear, and to attack liberals not on substantive points but from a kind of self-righteous, smug, might-makes-right tone and perspective that represents the worst (and the overriding majority) of conservative punditry. And yet I kept reading him, and sending him "what are you talking about?" emails (that he never read), and kept reading him... maybe I was holding out hope for those glimmers of true lucidity, or maybe he just pissed me off in that particular way that people - who we mostly agree with except on matters most important to us - do. In any case, I did keep reading, and somewhere, and I think honestly the moment was Abu Ghraib, in fact yes Abu Ghraib was decidedly the pin in his triumphal balloon, when he suddenly couldn't drink the koolaid anymore. And then, as a gay man, the Federal Marriage Amendment threw him over the edge. Since then no one has been more vehemently and more eloquently on Bush's and the Bush Administration's case about the handling of the post-war and the hypocrisy and empty travesty of their domestic policies. He's still not entirely sold on Kerry. But it's safe to say this ex-Brit is not voting for Bush. For those two or three of you who actually read this, I strongly recommend checking him out if you don't already, among other reasons because he compiles a mean war chest of anti-Bushiania - and a lot of this is from his fellow conservatives. He also loves to slash away at the garbage flying on both sides - and man is it refreshing to read a bullshit free conservative pundit. Admittedly, he still gets emotional and self-righteous about things that I think are dumb, but, hey, an honest conservative pundit - I was being to think it wasn't possible.