“Zarqawi's microphone?” “Damage to the President?”

Because these don’t sound like the core complaints by conservatives I’ve been reading, Sullivan may be trying to misdirect us toward the ridiculous and patently untrue. His critics are painted as rabid crapslingers, and he looks like he’s zinged them.

Our beef with AS may be that he seemed to build readership and click count by riding the post-9/11 wave, then, after he drew readership from the Right to add to his normal base, swung left before the election season to help the liberal machine get power. I gather we generally suspect he stage-managed a premeditated, self-serving transition, and misrepresented his rationale all along the way to try to hold as much of his conservative readership as possible while not coming off as a schemer.

If that's it in a nutshell, did he do it because the Left truly knows how to reward and punish? Because he thought he could have his readership cake and eat it? WGAF. He should be embarrassed at how early we picked up on the shift and predicted his endorsement of Kerry. Bad form, Old Sport.

Funny how we've yet to see even so much as the faintest hint of comment from Sullivan, re: the recent revelations concerning the Political Director of the Log Cabin Republicans (one Christopher Barron, to be precise) being publicly "outed" as a long time supporter and adviser of John Edwards. (information here --> http://gaypatriot.blogspot.com/)

I guess when you've been all but outed as a frothing, single-issue-propelled Kerry partisan yourself, however: that two-faced sort of treachery is just the same ol' same ol', ultimately.

Ace, I believe that you are the single most powerful blogger in the history of blogging. More Powerful than Instapundit. The trendsetter for the Corner. Quicker on the breaking news than Drudge. Sexier than Wonkette's faux lesbo pics. Gayer than Andrew Sullivan (not that there's anything wrong with that). "Phat-ter" than Filet O Fish (but not fatter, since no one is). That pretty much says it all.

Now will you bring Johnny Coldcuts back?

sully is a turd

quit giving him links!

Philabuster;

Ace is more important in this election than President Bush.

Sullivan's self-obsession has become self-parody.

No one is fatter than O-Dub? Have you seen Michael Moore lately? No man is an island, but shit howdy, he's pretty close.

...and when he moves, Ace slices like a f'n hammer. I've seen him do it.

He's also the only important one up there on the stage. He give us full value on our checks, too.

Hey Ace,
You know, back in the day, I use to be a major metalhead. Anything George Lynch or Yngwie Malmsteen did was A-OK with me. But my ultimate motto was: "Eddie(VanHalen)is God!
Well, I've grown up a bit and have seen the error of my blasphemous ways. I have been enlightened and I now bask in the warm glow of the real true light. I can proudly raise up my power fist and shout at the top of my lungs:
"Ace is God!"

;-)

Now, were I Andrew Sullivan, I might have to post that, and then disclaim any pretensions of actual divinity.

Ace, on what basis is there a reason to conclude that the Iraqis don't want to be free? Because the people in Fallujah are hiding Zarqawi? That's one city. Tell that to the Iraqis killed everytime a ING or IP recruiting line is attacked. The idea the Iraqis won't fight for themselves is the biggest myth of the war. Our mistake was not raising a division size force of free Iraqis in the 12 months between the "axis of evil" speech and March 2003. Wolfowitz wanted to do this but was not permitted. That's not his error - it's Powell's for blocking it and Bush's for listening to State.

By the way, while the "more powerful than Soros" bit is over the top, the rest of the piece is a pretty accurate analysis of what's going on at The Daily Dish.

Ace, on what basis is there a reason to conclude that the Iraqis don't want to be free? Because the people in Fallujah are hiding Zarqawi?

I didn't intend to take a position on this. Rather, I meant that if Iraq is as much a mess as Sullivan bitches, then Sullivan has to also take responsibility for HIS miscalculations, and that would be one of them.

It's an "if... then" thing.

I shudder to think what The Daily Dish would read like if it were written during WWII.

Sullivan jumped the shark some time ago, and it's long past time the blogophere stopped paying attention to past glories. It's a bit shabby really, not unlike bowing to a Duke because his ancestor won some battle but then have produced 13 generations of ciphers.

"Sullivan jumped the shark some time ago..."

Yep. He's yesterday's news.

He's doing this whole elaborate dance to maintain his credibility as a "conservative", when in reality he's a single-issue voter, big-time.

Undoubtedly, now that he's spending part of the year in Provincetown he's also probably feeling tons of pressure from his social circles to get in line on Kerry.