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In reply to the discussion: "See, what Andrew Sullivan is trying to say is that Liberals were right all along." [View all]Marr
(20,317 posts)42. The bar for "thinking Conservatives" is incredibly low.
You get to be 180 degrees wrong when that's easy (like say, during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq), and then you get to slowly, by degrees, over the course of years, come around to something like a sane position, getting applause every step of the way-- while never, ever, admitting you were wrong.
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"See, what Andrew Sullivan is trying to say is that Liberals were right all along." [View all]
phantom power
Jul 2014
OP
His verbal attacks upon those who demonstrated against the Iraq War should never be forgotten
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2014
#2
That is choice. What the author said so wittily & conclusively about modern American Conservatism...
Hekate
Jul 2014
#5
K&R - twice correct - Sullivan's irrelevant, and Liberals have always been right.
closeupready
Jul 2014
#9
"...especially the barbaric nihilism at the core of American Conservatism."
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2014
#22