It’s laughable that Andrew Sullivan would claim some kind of ‘conservative’ credentials– he’s gay afterall!
The real truth is that many on the Republican right just read everything I write through an anti-gay prism, because their homophobia – benign or not-so-benign, conscious or unconscious – is so overwhelming it occludes any genuine assessment of a person’s thoughts outside this fact. ~andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Do I give a f*ck if Andrew Sullivan is gay? (The answer is no for those who are unable to read my meaning.) Andrew Sullivan is not a conservative because he’s taken every liberal position on every issue of the last few years. He’s a liberal because he cheers when liberals win and boos when conservatives win. He maligns conservatives and then says that he supports some token issue (in principle but not in practice) that might be construed as conservative under some strained definition. This is why Sullivan is a liberal.
Andrew Sullivan is a closet liberal who has been outed. It’s no use denying it, honey, we all know what you are.
Besides isn’t conservatism degenerate? For a man who claims to be conservative, he doesn’t like conservatism very much does he?