Letter to Andrew Sullivan #3

Subject line: "He may even have lost the Election tonight"

Excitable Andrew, as per usual. Wouldn't want to have you reporting on the
Battle of the Bulge in late 1944. "I think we may have lost the war today;
Nazi invasion of England imminent!" Such conclusions might get some play
from your Boss Tina Brown and her Wreck of the Hesperus version of NEWSWEEK
as 'counter-intuitive' and 'edgy'. They'd also be wrong, just like you are
now.

 JBC


p.s. Doing any phone-banking or volunteer work for Obama? If not, why not?
I thought you wanted him to win -- or is that work for lesser people, you
know, people who don't have the time (or the inclination) to go blog to
thousands about how much they love their own dick. Or is it that your
Obama's-a-Tory is yet another position taken to be a step-and-a-half au
courant of the Conventional Wisdom as it courses through the DC-NY media
bubble? Forgive us, but Democrats in this country really ought to take the
words and prognostications of such a stalwart as yourself -- who supported
Clinton in '92, Dole in '96, Bush in '00, and Kerry and Obama in '04 and
'08 -- with a metric ton of salt. Old Tom Paine had a phrase that comes to mind when we contemplate your record: "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot."