Andrew Sullivan Praises Kerry?

Since the rise of the Republican Taliban, there's been some surprising shifts in political sympathies by the right-wing intellectual darling Andrew Sullivan. This from yesterday's blog:

KERRY FIGHTS BACK: The Senator rightly objects to the way in which the Catholic Church is directly intervening in American politics and instructing politicians what they can and cannot support on matters of public policy. I'm amazed that the Church can lobby politically and still maintain its tax-free status. It isn't just upholding moral values here; it's instructing a secular politician in a secular Constitution how to vote on purely dogmatic grounds. It's one more step back from the Second Council, but then we knew that that document is now essentially a dead letter in the current Vatican. I must say that my admiration for Kerry just went up a big notch. What a country. Only one party seems intent on combating the violent theocracy threatening our freedoms from abroad. But they're the very party appeasing theocrats at home.
- 12:49:24 PM

NYT DISSONANCE: Strange to see this headline in the New York Times: "Hispanics Back Big Government and Bush Too." They write as if there is some kind of conflict here. But Bush is so obviously for big government, Hispanics are simply responding to his policies. The difference between Republicans and Democrats right now is not between big and small government. It's between the Democrats' Big, Solvent Government and the Republicans' Big Insolvent Government.
- 12:26:33 PM

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...he must be feeling so conflicted about now. And here he thought he had a home in the GOP, only to find out they are homophobic fiscally irresponsible backwater thugs...

welcomes Andrew Sullivan into the Leftist fold. The man made his bed with the GOP, now let him lie in it.