Republicans Even A Newspaper Editor Could Love
March 18, 2009 / 8:46 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierIt started yesterday with this funny NY Post article (via Conservative Grapevine:
Dear Mainstream Media:
I’m a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin.
So can I please be your go-to guy whenever you need a conservative viewpoint?
Today, John Hawkins has a list of Republicans even Republican-haters love (need I remind everyone of the super-secret email list of Democratic politicians, media types and academics–so diverse a group ideologically). Here’s my favorite:
Andrew Sullivan: Sully was generally considered to be left-of-center, but built a name for himself on the right by supporting the war in Iraq. However, after Bush supported a constitutional amendment to protect marriage, “Excitable Andy” turned on the war, Bush, his former conservative allies, and Christians with a vengeance.
Ironically, even as he aimed frothing hatred at all things conservative, Sully claimed to be a conservative. Of course, no conservative I know of considers Andrew Sullivan to be conservative and most people on the right consider him to be a far left-wing crackpot.
Personally, I think Sully personifies a quote from Thomas Sowell’s magnificent book, ‘The Vision Of The Anointed’
“Many of these “thinking people” could more accurately be characterized as articulate people, as people whose verbal nimbleness can elude both evidence and logic. This can be a fatal talent, when it supplies the crucial insulation from reality behind may historic catastrophes.”
Sullivan is indeed very articulate, but he’s also the most inconsistent, scatterbrained, haphazard writer in politics today — and even most liberals, after years of insisting that he was a conservative, will now admit that he’s actually a fellow liberal. Tragically, Sullivan now embraces wacky conspiracy theories as well and his sentiments are generally indistinguishable from the kookiest diarists on the Daily Kos once you get beyond the exceptional quality of his writing.
Go read the whole thing. David Frum and Kathleen Parker receive my #2 and #3 spot. Why? Because they don’t respectfully disagree. They tore down their own for their own careers. It’s pathetic. They need to go away.
