It looks like Andrew Sullivan has grudgingly recognized that Bush isn’t a bigot:
But this piece of sanity from the President deserves praise and reciprocation from those of us who support equality in marriage. We should refrain from any constitutional or legal challenge to DOMA for the foreseeable future (something I’ve urged for a long time now). We should also refrain from any attempt to force any state to recognize a gay marriage from another state (of course that’s different from a state voluntarily recognizing such marriages). We should practise moderation, just as the Senate is practising moderation. We already have civil marriage rights in one state.
Shorter Andrew Sullivan:
I am a nitwit prone to hysterics and I turned myself into a single-issue voter during the last election, and even on that issue I willfully misinterpreted the President. But, you people keeping buy ads for 1300 a month and tipping me 100k a year, so the joke is on you.
Gary Farber
“It looks like Andrew Sullivan has grudgingly recognized that Bush isn’t a bigot….”
I’ve never thought George W. Bush was, personally, a bigot.
He only played one during the campaign.
I’m a tad unclear how morally worthy this is, however.
Kimmitt
Meh. As long as social conservatives continue to allow themselves to be played for fools by the Republican Party’s elite, they will continue to be played for fools by the Republican Party’s elite.
ape
Which single-issue was that?
Incompetence pursuit of war?
Administration’s acceptance of torture/ failure of accountability?
It is simply not true that AS is a single-issue campaigner or anything like it. Go and look at his site.
In any case, Bush’s personal views are not the key point – it is the policies and actions of his administration and whether or not they mobilised the theocrat-bigot vote in his favour.