A blogger who wanted to be a "solvent of ... rigidity" would swallow his pride

There is an awful joke sitting there involving both swallowing and rigiditythat I will not partake in.

Keep in mind that what Sullivan is really upset over is Bush's decision to support DMA. But just like Democrats who won't admit that their opposition to the Vietnam War was driven by cowardice and selfishness, Sullivan seems leery to come out and say that the only reason he doesn't support Bush is because of the DMA... so he struggles to find other reasons to dislike Bush... even when those reasons contradict somewhat his own previous statements and positions.

All in all, just part of the reason why I too stopped reading him...

I don't read Sullivan anymore, not even to find something idiotic to rip on.

That's a pity. Today he's demonstrating one of his most annoying tendencies, and one for which he gets surprisingly little grief: namely, his tendency to swoon over lofty political rhetoric. To read him this afternoon, you'd think he was suddenly back on board with Bush's foreign policy. Ah well. A few unkind words from the president about gay marriage will help sober him up.

Damn, ace, are you writing Kaus' entries now. He really gives ol' excitable Andy a rash of shit. It's almost ace-worthy:

Mr. Complexity: Andrew Sullivan has lately taken to presenting himself as a nuanced "political hybrid," a "solvent" of "rigidity" and partisanship. He's dismayed at the "bizarre [notion] gaining traction in the blogosphere ... that there can only be two positions on the Iraq war." Alert reader N.S. points to this March 9, 2003 blog entry as an example of this nuanced, non-rigid, third-position-friendly hybrid thinker empathetically critiquing the New York Times' editorial opposing the Iraq invasion.

You can just feel the contempt dripping form the page

I stopped reading sullivan for the same reasons as Steve. Everything, everything The Shrieking One says about Bush is distored through the lens of the man's hatred for the president over gay marriage. I find it interesting that Sullivan is criticizing Bush's conservatism when Sullivan has, over the past year, cheered every judicial overreach that made gay marriage possible.

The other reason I stopped reading Sully is the emotionalism.

The parallels between Viet Nam and Iraq are incredible. Both were supported by democrats until it began to look like a republican was going to do a good a job of it. Throw in an election and suddenly the war supported was foisted off on them. They all continue to ginore the resolutions of the UN and our our own. Both claimed that Saddam had WMD at one time, not that he still did, only that he wasn't allowing inspections to prove he didn't. They also both claimed he was supporting terrorism and oppressing his people. That he had WMD's at the time of our invasion wasn't the basis, that he had them at one time and was breaking the resolutions that he had agreed to was the problem. The left understood that at the time, but it's somehow slipped their minds since then. We call that selective memory around here. They call it politics at the DNC headquarters.

For me, my lifelong self-imposed ban on reading Sullivan was threefold:

1. Constant whining about Abu Ghraib. Was Abu Ghraib bad? Yes. Do we need to revisit it each week? No. We get it, Andrew. Abu Ghraib bad. Now move the f**k along.

2. His single issue politics -- nothing, not even terrorism, war, or the survival of our society is more important to him than gay marriage. He was willing to see John Kerry sign articles of surrender in Iraq rather than vote for Bush, solely because of FMA.

3. A certain post of his referencing other usages of Senator Rick Santorum's name. To use a phrase I heard somewhere before, "gob-smackingly vile."

Sully wears a brocabrella with extendable rear-view mirrors. His hindsight is always 20/20.

Good God how wearisome! Thank You and the blogosphere, who are doing us all a service in exposing Liberals for who they are. I certainly couldn't do it anymore, I'm really weary of hearing the Same Old Liberal Bullshit, year in and year out, over and over, and over ... and ... over ... ad nauseum ... ad infinitum ...

Ace, one of the best featurs of your blog is the running commentary on Sully.

Scooter pie?

Nevermind, I don't want to know.

Andrew who? Never heard of the guy.