Is It Good for a Peace-Time Nation?

Sullivan, on Bush's Colorado speech:

The president appeared yet again divorced from anything vaguely representing reality. That is not a good thing for a nation at war.

Actually, Andy is having a bad day:

Here's a revealing sentence from National Review's profile of Roger Simon, ex-lefty blogger: "[When] it comes to social policy, he continues to lean hard to the left. 'I'm very liberal on social issues: pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, separation of church and state,' he says. 'I think racism and sexism are the greatest evils in the world.'" So allowing women to choose to seek an abortion is now a "hard left" position? And encouraging gay couples to have stable relationships is "hard left"? And being deeply concerned about racism and sexism is "hard left"? I won't even touch "separation of church and state." But I will notice that this assertion comes at a time when Karl Rove is deliberately trying to involve church congregations directly in Bush's re-election effort. Disturbing.

Can't say I blame him. Balanced budgets are "hard left" now, too. So's putting things in "quotation marks." He continunes, bashing Stanley Kurtz (something I did sooner, if less viciously, and with fewer Robin Williams refrences):

You can, in fact, draw a direct connection between the liberalization of marriage laws in Liechtenstein and this collapse in marriage in Japan. And the turning point came at exactly the moment that Richard Hatch won "Survivor," putting another nail in the coffin of heterosexual marriage. Secular humanist skeptics will no doubt quibble that there is no such thing as gay marriage in Japan, that Japan is, in fact, a deeply homophobic society. But can they prove no connection with Holland's slide toward Gommorrah? Hasn't greater Western tolerance of homosexuals seeped through in Japan? Didn't the "Bird Cage" do pretty well over there? You have been warned. Unless you amend the American constitution, the Yellow-Lavender Peril will be here before you know it.

I think I now officially quallify as Andrew Sullivan's bitch—— er, schill. But most bloggers are.

:::spasms, disconnects:::

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