Andrew Sullivan in July of 2004:
Kerry may be the right man – and the conservative choice – for a difficult and perilous time.
Andrew Sullivan, yesterday:
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This speech, to my mind, was a conservative one by a conservative president who seeks first and foremost to use existing institutions to address the new challenges of the moment, and then seeks pragmatic compromises, always open to future checks and balances, in those places where such institutions clearly need reform and adjustment.
But then, conservatism really is whatever Andrew defines it to be at any given moment, of course.
Hmmmm…
Andrew Sullivan: This speech, to my mind, was a conservative one by a conservative president….
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Facepalm.
no Andy.
This, along with his Trig obsession convinces me that Andy truly does have mental health issues. And I’m not meaning to be snarky, either.
What can I say? Spot on, Ed.
Oh, and a bit “yeah, what he said” to Apostic.
Great parody! Now, what did he really write about the speech.
Oh …
Forget, please, “conservatism.” It has been, operationally, de facto, Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
“[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com
PS – And “Mr. Worldly Wiseman” Rush Limbaugh never made a bigger ass of himself than at CPAC where he told that blasphemous “joke” about himself and God.
I seem to remember that someone, once upon a time, was quite willing to kiss His Son. Personally, I can see that such kissing wasn’t enough and would be grateful to kiss him again as many times as needed.