Andrew Sullivan: THE LEWINSKY PATH

andrewsullivan.com ^ | 02/12/04 | Andrew Sullivan

[independentmind]

Sullivan is clueless.

Something other than Sullivan's brain was at work here...

[jwfiv]

I think Andrew has smoked one too many sausages.

Whatta DUmmy.

[CyberAnt]

Besides, it was Clark who leaked the story. Why would anybody on the repub side of the isle tell Clark anything ..??

The "it's Bush's fault" just won't fly here!

[beckett]

The Kerry story is intenecine warfare, not Republican instigated. What this attack by Sullivan actually means is that he is going to campaign hard against the president because the president refuses to bend over for him. Sullivan is a ONE ISSUE intellectual. Never forget it.

[VRWC_minion]

The "I was a lifelong republican..."

How many of us can say this ? I know I cannot. I was raised to hate republicans.

[GeronL]

Because there aren't any reporters there?

[karenbarinka]

Bet Andy enjoys being smacked!

[swampfox98]

I agree. If the Republicans are behind this, they deserve to be trashed. This is absolutely not something that deserves to be a factor in our current debate.

Excuse me! What garbage! This girl friend thing was either thought up by the Clintons, or it is being touted by the Democrats to cover up something else evil Kerry has done that they don't want the public to dwell on.

Anyway, the Republicans don't have the guts to play this dirty.

[Carolinamom]

Andrew Sullivan has zero credibility. It was REPORTED for Godsakes that Clark sparked the revelation that had been around for years. Why do WE know that and Sullivan doesn't know the sequence or worse, lies about it?

[Howlin]

Well, I got a response from Sullivan:

I emailed him:

How kind of you to automatically blame the GOP for the Kerry story; I guess you missed Craig Crawford's MEMO today, huh?

And he wrote me back a snippy little note:

i didn't do that.
can you read?
andrew

And so I wrote him back:

Yes, I can read.

Does

"I'm beginning to worry that the Republicans might be behind this smear-job on Kerry."

mean something I don't know?

There's absolutely NO HINT that the GOP is behind this.

[diotima]

That was clearly a seminar e-mailer...

[AuntB]

I agree. I want to see his voter precinct card.

[AuntB]

"Fasten your seat belts"

I don't think I can live through all that whining again. I hate election years.....and I do mean YEARS. It never ends!

[PLK]

Sullivan is using this as the way to pave his switch to liberal/Dem politics. Pretty weak, too, I might add.

He was never a conservative from the get-go. I liked some of his articles, but like most homosexuals, his sexual addiction has overcome his intellectual and common sense.

[goldstategop]

I'd tell Andrew Sullivan the leak didn't come from us, it came from the Clintons or whoever inside the Democratic Party has it in for Kerry. And you can take that to the bank.

[Destro]

So Eisenhower was a scumbag?

[harpo11]

I tend to agree. I do not want to see Americans engaged discussisng 24/7 until November the alleged dubious regard that Senator Kerry seems to hold his marriage vows. I'm personally sick and tired of having our tax money used for such investigations and more so paying for the salaries of our elected officials who seem to have problems keeping their pants and/or pantyhose on when they aren't with their wives/husbands.

The truth is this is not the 90's. President Bush is practicing a NEW POLITICAL TONE, which means IMHO, abstinance from trying to screw your political opponents. They seem to do enough of that on their own.

Do you remember under the Clinton Era, Clinton, his administration, and FOB's spoke of this well-financed organization that was out to destroy his presidency because they were angry that Clinton won, even though the people voted him in? As you recall, Clinton's wife, without an ounce of shame, named it "The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy". Mrs. Clinton's fictional VRWC became the invented enemy, that they could blame, ridicule and marginalize. All great fodder for the airwaves and cable networks. This allowed Clinton's other more critical transgressions become less of the focus of news.

President Bush, nor his administration, nor his FOG's (Friends of George) has spoken negatively about Democrats. Mrs. Bush has not gone on the Today Show with Matt Lauer and talk unabashedly about a vicious, well-financed organization that has been angry ever since her husband won the presidency and are out to destroy him, and call it "The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy".

President Bush seeks to reach out to everyone, including hard-working illegal aliens, Ted Kennedy and the "religion of peace". He's never blames, or ridicules, or denigrates his political opponents, but resolutely forges onwards.

You see, his new tone is for all Americans. He does not treat us, or certain groups as his enemies. The Clintons did. They sought to divide and disturb, and agitate the people constantly.

But, President Bush has clearly and emphatically defined who the enemy is and his "New Political Tone" carries resoundingly well because he is not just talking about the "evil doers", he is doing something about it, and that new tone can be heard loud and clear.

So, I agree, I'd rather press Kerry on hiw political activities and direction he wishes he could take us if he were elected President. Focusing now on some cheap and tawdry relationship he had with a woman other than his wife will not stop al Quaeda from threatening our nation, our lives, our heritage, and most of all our children, our future.

In closing, we need to evaluate the character of our elected officials and their allegiance to their vows, marriage and our great Constitution.

Enough said.

[jwalsh07]

Andrew Sullivan is losing his mind.

[NYCVirago]

Sullivan had a real problem with the Lewinsky thing, and all the alleged "privacy violations" it entailed. Here's why -- a few years ago, gay activists outed him as running a personals ad where he was looking for another HIV-positive partner to have condom-free, unsafe sex with. He then equated himself with what Clinton was going through, and has had a real problem with any of these sex stories as being violations of privacty. So, as usual, it's all about Andrew -- the personal is the political. Good riddance.

[Snuffington]

I agree. If the Republicans are behind this, they deserve to be trashed. This is absolutely not something that deserves to be a factor in our current debate.

Andrew Sullivan is a very intelligent man. Unfortunately, no matter how inconsistent, every interest of his is subordinate to his personal desire for guilt-free, socially accepted, homosexual relations. He therefore supports all kinds of heterosexual bad conduct, so that homosexuality seems tame by comparison.