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July 26, 2004ALLAHU AKHBAR! CONTEST ENDS WITH A WINNERBack in March, Horsefeathers announced a contest to pick the date when Andrew Sullivan would bail out on President Bush and find a new love in the Democratic nominee. Following 9-11,Sullivan argued that an unbreakable emotional bond had formed with President Bush, but that was before Sullivan's gay issues preoccupation overtook his concern about winning the war. Horsefeathers thanks LGF for providing the news: "...Much of the hard work has now been done. Nobody seriously believes that Bush will start another war. And in some ways Kerry may be better suited to the difficult task of nation building than Bush. At home Bush has done much to destroy the coherence of a conservative philosophy of American government and he has been almost criminally reckless in his conduct of the war. He and America will never live down the intelligence debacle of the missing WMDs. He and America will be hard put to regain the moral high ground after Abu Ghraib. The argument that Kerry must make is that he can continue the war but without Bush’s polarising recklessness. And at home he must reassure Americans that he is the centrist candidate, controlled neither by the foaming Michael Moore left nor by the vitriolic religious right. Put all that together and I may not find myself the only conservative moving slowly and reluctantly towards the notion that Kerry may be the right man — and the conservative choice — for a difficult and perilous time..." Drumroll please: The winner, whose pick of July 30 came as close as a Pedro brushback pitch, is... ALLAH !We should not be surprised at the ability to foretell the future by the shaper and knower of worlds. Oh fellow kufrs, Horsefeathers knows whose election predictions to follow: Allah ruler of the universe and slayer of infidels. << Back to Horsefeathers |
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Wow, with an interpretation like that, you can see why much of America thought the threat from Iraq was "imminent."
I don't think he's there -- moving isn't arrived, and he "slowly and reluctantly" isn't "inevitably."
He still has wiggle room.
Posted by: Frank at July 26, 2004 12:50 PM
I was just over at Sullivan's site, and there's no way he's endorsed Kerry over Bush. Not yet, anyway. Here's some of what he's written:
"I guess I believe that supporting a Republican who is anathema to libertarian conservatives is a bad thing in general. But, hey, it's not as if Kerry is that great either."
"But it remains the case that Bush's determination to defeat Jihadist terror is beyond much doubt, even if his methods seem often strained by incompetence, recklessness and arrogance. So Kerry has a great opportunity to win over the undecideds over this week, and if he cannot take advantage of it, he will reveal himself unworthy of the office he seeks."
"If Kerry bores on about healthcare or taxes without focusing on terror, then he will richly deserve to lose. Unlike some, I'm open to persuasion."
"[I]t is indeed a failure that this president, far from uniting the country behind this war, has served to divide it more deeply. He may, however, be the best we have on offer. This week will go a long way toward resolving that question."
This is leaning at best -- but I really think it's more a statement of possibility.
Posted by: Frank at July 26, 2004 02:51 PM
Frank,
Andrew, in a typical process, didn't come out and declare his support for Kerry on his blog. That would be too overt, particularly when he is begging for more funds. He came out and did this in The Times as detailed in the link to the story via LGF.
This isn't the first time that Andrew said one thing on his blog, and another in another venue - like The Advocate. Andrew now has on his site a "rebuttal" to those who say he is a one issue pontificator, and listing the reasons why he can't support President Bush - but all of these come back to the President's support of FMA - and the President's viewpoint that the people should decide on gay marriage - not judges legislating from the bench.
Stephen had this pegged from early one - as the contest demonstrates.
Posted by: Athos at July 26, 2004 04:50 PM
Athos, I don't subscribe to the Times of London, and so am reliant on what's at LGF and here. But this seems far from unequivocal, as shown by what Sullivan wrote on his blog.
Note that he is not talking about Kerry as superior so much as setting an agenda which Kerry must meet in order to persuade that he is superior. That's very different.
Personally, I would agree that Sullivan is not a one-issue editorializer. I'd agree with anyone that says FMA looms large in his thinking, but he has long talked about Bush's economic policies, the steel tarriff, what he's seen as an irresponsible rise in domestic spending, the war in Iraq, and the war on terror.
Posted by: Frank at July 26, 2004 06:19 PM
Sullivan
Posted by: Stephen at July 26, 2004 06:27 PM
So is someone saying that when Sullivan writes (in the link Stephen posted) that "may be the right man" is the same as choosing?
I don't — I still read this as indecision.
Posted by: Frank at July 26, 2004 06:54 PM
Frank, who said stevie could even read?
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