Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 1, 762 times…
By Roger Ailes has a great post about Andrew Sullivan declaring that he no longer supports the GOP, because they have the same position on gay rights that they’ve always had.
If you scroll up a bit, you can see Sully’s desperation, as he demonstrates the full-on Phantom Menace effect. Says Sully:
[Reagan] would never have presided over the massive increases in domestic spending that Bush has
This isn’t a hypothetical question, and in fact Reagan did preside over significant increases in domestic spending.
he would not have played the anti-gay card that Karl Rove has
Yes, Reagan would never, ever pander to the religious right. And then let’s consider his AIDS policies…
and he would never have recast his party into one where only fundamentalist Christians are ultimately, fully at home.
If Sully can name anything about the party that was more liberal then than it is now, he isn’t saying. And he’s not saying because this is ridiculous.
Unlike Bush, Reagan was a man of ideas, an intellectual…
Satire is dead.
Well, in fairness, he might be an intellectual compared to Bush…