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You are here: Home / Andrew Sullivan Takes Psilocybin

Andrew Sullivan Takes Psilocybin

by John Cole|  July 27, 20046:42 am| 5 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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Check out this tongue kiss between Sully and the Kerry campaign:

I’m still somewhat in shock at the first night of the Democratic Convention. I kept thinking I was at a Republican convention. Tightly scripted, elegantly choreographed, seamlessly on the centrist message of war, unity, maturity and judgment. Foreign policy was front and center; faith was showcased; military service was held up as the ideal; prudent leadership was touted in a time of “peril,” in Hillary’s word. I wonder if they can keep this up. But I’m amazed they’ve tried. I’ve been writing for months now that Kerry’s most effective message would be that he’d conduct the war on terror with more allies and more wisdom than Bush. But I never actually believed he’d be canny enough to do exactly that. But he has!

I guess I watched a different show…

*** Update ***

Kevin Drum:

Andrew Sullivan is practically a one-man cheering squad for the first night of the convention. Weird. He sounds like a guy who very desperately wants to believe in Kerry.

Does this mean that David Brock is a Republican again? My head hurts.

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  1. 1.

    JohnO

    July 27, 2004 at 7:17 am

    Andrew Sullivan. The triumph of Hope over Experience.

  2. 2.

    Terry

    July 27, 2004 at 7:39 am

    “I’ve been writing for months now that Kerry’s most effective message would be that he’d conduct the war on terror with more allies and more wisdom than Bush. But I never actually believed he’d be canny enough to do exactly that. But he has!”

    As is too often the case with Sullivan, he can’t write three consecutive sentences with a coherent and accurate message unless he has an editor looking over his every word and phrase. Just look at the silly conclusion that he reaches in the three sentences above…Kerry hasn’t conducted the war with more allies and wisdom than Bush, as he concludes in these remarks…he has merely orchestrated a “show” in which virtually all of the on-stage participants are speaking words largely at odds with the majority of the convention audience. Why do conservatives still support this fatuous gasbag?

  3. 3.

    norbizness

    July 27, 2004 at 7:59 am

    Great, you guys get to deal with him for awhile. We on the other side of the aisle have been knee-deep in his maddening nonsense for the better part of the last 3 years.

  4. 4.

    ape

    July 27, 2004 at 9:58 am

    ‘tongue kiss’. Sullivan = sexuality. Well done.

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    JPS

    July 27, 2004 at 12:54 pm

    Drum has it exactly right, except that it isn’t weird. I think Sullivan knows the war (the overarching one, not Iraq) is of overriding importance. He’ll never endorse Kerry if he doesn’t believe Kerry will win it, or fight it as well as Bush.

    I get the sense he feels so betrayed by Bush on FMA that he’s more hospitable than he would have been to arguments (farfetched, IMO) that Kerry will be as good as Bush or better on the war. Once he can truly believe that, it’s a big, final F-U to Bush.

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