I CANNOT SUPPORT HIM IN NOVEMBER:

Sorry, but no shit, Andrew.  We’ve all known this since January 25th or so. 

I will add one thing more. And that is the personal sadness I feel that this president who praises freedom wishes to take it away from a whole group of Americans who might otherwise support many parts of his agenda.

Do you think he feels personal sadness?  UH...no.  And, pray tell, what freedoms is the President taking away from “a whole group of people..”, or, maybe more exactly, what freedom does he wish to take away?  Gay Marriage?  Is that a Constitutionally-protected freedom?  I thought you said, Andrew, that you were a supporter of the rights of the states to decide?  Well, so is the President. 

To see the second family tableau with one family member missing because of her sexual orientation pains me to the core. And the president made it clear that discriminating against gay people, keeping them from full civic dignity and equality, is now a core value for him and his party.

This paragraph kills me. Here’s why:  How many times did GWB mention marriage in his speech? Three.  First, to tell us that Kerry voted againjst reducing the marriage penalty.  Then, when Bush said he wanted to protect marriage against activist judges.  Last was noting that Kerry voted against DOMA (Clinton’s Defense of Marriage Act).  Nope.....nothing in there about discriminating against gay people.....sounds more like Bush is anti-activist judges, to me.  And about Dick Cheney’s daughter not being there.....whose decision was that......Sullivan infers that it was because of Bush himself, and his hatred of homosexuals.  Could it have been a whole laundry list of other reasons, perhaps? 

The opposite is a core value for me. Some things you can trade away. Some things you can compromise on. Some things you can give any politician a pass on. But there are other values - of basic human dignity and equality - that cannot be sacrificed without losing your integrity itself.

Yes...gay people are herded into the streets, tatooed on the forehead with large “G” tatoos, and made to parade around naked while White Southern Males urinate on them.  Sullivan is gay.  This is HIS issue.  He is so full of grandiose self-importance and rage that Bush isn’t going to change his ideals to suit HIM, that he is drawing the conclusion that Bush views gays as subhuman.  See, you can have free speech, or have the right to your views, but not if they disagree with Andrew Sullivan. 

Also, you can see the one-plank voter.  Bush is clearly more conservative than Kerry, is stronger on the War, and is more in tune with America, but Sullivan would rather have a post-nationalist, leftist, snob/socialite/blue-blooded, pacifistic liar in the most powerful office on the planet, simply because he might (I said MIGHT) support civil recognition of gay marriage.  That’s a whole hell of a lot to ask just so you have a document that allows you to legally have sex with another man, Mr. Sullivan.  And, to be honest, that is just what it is.  Sullivan is willing to trade away his supposed core values in order to have a small chance to force society into conforming with HIS model. 

That’s why, despite my deep admiration for some of what this president has done to defeat terror, and my affection for him as a human being, I cannot support his candidacy. Not only would I be abandoning the small government conservatism I hold dear, and the hope of freedom at home as well as abroad, I would be betraying the people I love. And that I won’t do.

Bullshit.  Sorry.  “deep admiration...” That’s a LIE..  Affection?  BULLCRAP! I would agree that Sullivan has points on Bush’s spending, and increased government programs, but this crap about affection and admiration is a unmitigated pile of shit.  Plain and simple, and there is no other way to describe it.  The “small government conservatism” he so often says he loves....who is closer, Kerry or Bush, to that ideal?  At least Bush suppots the rights of the States.  And the line about freedom at home and abroad...that is guy believing in his own importance a little too damned much.

Sullivan and Kerry are actually very similar....they operate within the venue of one limited ideal, they need constant praise and, at the same time, victimhood to deflect valid criticisms.  And, both men try to mask their true feelings....for if they were fully known, both men would be rejected wholesale by many who think highly of them. 

I am done reading Sullivan until 11-3-2004.  I’ll read his column after the election is over....because the column that he will print up on that day will be more fiskable than any he has ever printed.  He will either be totally defeated or in the throes of orgasmic glee.  He has no objectivity anymore, and it’s all about Bush losing for him.  He saw no good out of the RNC, he sees Bush as MoveON.org sees Bush.  They are of one body, now. 

Like we all didn’t see that already.