{"id":3707,"date":"2009-12-04T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2009-12-04T01:36:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T05:36:39","slug":"right-and-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/04\/right-and-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"right and wrong…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Andrew Sullivan<\/font><\/strong>, conservative<\/strike> blogger for the Atlantic Monthly, has thrown in the towel – this time the whole towel:<\/div>\n
Leaving the Right<\/a>
Atlantic Monthly
The Daily Dish<\/strong>
by Andrew Sullivan
01 Dec 2009 <\/div>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that assumed illegal, extra-constitutional dictatorial powers until forced by the system to return to the rule of law.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that so abandoned government’s minimal and vital role to police markets and address natural disasters that it gave us Katrina and the financial meltdown of 2008.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that holds torture as a core value.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that holds that purely religious doctrine should govern civil political decisions and that uses the sacredness of religious faith for the pursuit of worldly power.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that is deeply homophobic, cynically deploys fear of homosexuals to win votes, and gives off such a racist vibe that its share of the minority vote remains pitiful.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement which has no real respect for the institutions of government and is prepared to use any tactic and any means to fight political warfare rather than conduct a political conversation.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that sees permanent war as compatible with liberal democratic norms and limited government.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that criminalizes private behavior in the war on drugs.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that would back a vice-presidential candidate manifestly unqualified and duplicitous because of identity politics and electoral cynicism.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that regards gay people as threats to their own families.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that does not accept evolution as a fact.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that sees climate change as a hoax and offers domestic oil exploration as the core plank of an energy policy.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that refuses ever to raise taxes, while proposing no meaningful reductions in government spending.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that refuses to distance itself from a demagogue like Rush Limbaugh or a nutjob like Glenn Beck.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    I cannot support a movement that believes that the United States should be the sole global power, should sustain a permanent war machine to police the entire planet, and sees violence as the core tool for international relations.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Does this make me a "radical leftist" as Michelle Malkin would say? Emphatically not. But it sure disqualifies me from the current American right.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    To paraphrase Reagan, I didn’t leave the conservative movement. It left me.<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    And increasingly, I’m not alone.<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    Sullivan is an eloquent person. We don’t need him as a "Liberal." We have plenty. But we desperately need rational people with "Conservative Souls." The right<\/em> he’s talking about is neither right<\/em> [as in wing] nor right<\/em> [as in correct]. They’re something else – and, as Sullivan points out, it’s the wrong<\/em> thing to be.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Andrew Sullivan, conservative blogger for the Atlantic Monthly, has thrown in the towel – this time the whole towel: Leaving the Right Atlantic Monthly The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan 01 Dec 2009 I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}