"See, what Andrew Sullivan is trying to say is that Liberals were right all along."

[Hekate]

5. That is choice. What the author said so wittily & conclusively about modern American Conservatism...

....is something I've been trying to say for many years now myself, only not quite so well.

The GOP is now split and in trouble? The GOP feels pain and now embarrassment at the Tea Partiers? Well the GOP invited that hell-spawn in and nurtured them, and now we all have to suffer the consequences.

The fact that the eggs which Reagan's Conservatism and Nixon's Southern Strategy laid in our body politic hatched, and all beasts that are now stalking the land and freaking out poor, academic, Beltway True Conservative fops like Mr. Sullivan are the result.

And the reason those beasts survived to adulthood is because, all along the way, people like Sullivan nursed them. Helped them find their legs. Gave them intellectual cover as they grew to monstrous maturity. And assisted them in building an impregnable Reality Denial grid fueled by hippie punching.

And now he is shocked and horrified...