A Debt Owed to Andrew Sullivan
It’s incredibly odd to think that last winter I was a lukewarm Clinton supporter. I liked Obama, but I was skeptical that he could pull it off. It was Andrew Sullivan, whose blog I have read eagerly these past five years, who changed my mind. I’ve never agreed with Sullivan on everything — particularly in the beginning — but I respect his intellectual honesty, his ability to change course when the facts override ideology, and his rational approach to politics. In many ways, I’ve modeled my approach to blogging after his example. I can’t say how many lunch hours I’ve spent reading the Daily Dish.
I don’t care what his critics say, he’s still a conservative. I’m a progressive and disagree with him on all sorts of policy, but I greatly respect his opinion.
Here he is on Obama’s economic policies. It’s definitely worth a read.
By James DiBenedetto, October 14, 2008 @ 7:10 am
Wow.
I disagree with you about 1,000% on this one. I don’t see how Sullivan could possibly be described as a conservative.
I can’t come up with a definition of “conservative” that would lead someone to support John Kerry over President Bush, and to aggressively (an understatement!) support Barack Obama over John McCain, and to continually praise self-identified liberal pundits and politicans and continually attack conservative ones.
It’s like saying, “Except for not accepting the Pope, and not believing in Jesus, and thinking that the Bible is totally made up, I’m a devout Catholic.”