Sullivan in the sky with diamonds

Hey Andrew Sullivan readers (all 2 or so of you)--It's laughable to see that Sullivan is shocked that Ramesh Ponnuru's new anti-Democrat book is called Party of Death. I used to like Sullivan for this very reason, namely that he calls conservos out on their hyperbolic, tar-and-feathering rhetorical bullshit. But seriously, how naive can the guy be? Did anyone who is even remotely tuned in to the pundit/journalist scene not know that that was the title of Ponnuru's book? Is anyone even remotely surprised? I wonder what Sullivan thinks of Jonah Goldberg's new page-turner, Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton? Sometimes I wonder what rock Sullivan lives under so I can crawl under it. He actually believes that the current administration, unlike that paragon of virtue, Ronald Reagan, has sold out, for the first time in the Republican party's history, to Christian conservatism and hate-mongering. In typical conservative fashion, he sets up the mythical Past on a ridiculous pedestal that's supposed to represent "true political discourse." Woe is he, what has happened to the Russell Kirks and Friedrich Hayek's? Could it be that they're still alive and well, writing in serious academic journals and contributing to policy think tanks? Meanwhile the current pop-culture-political environment is just a slightly nastier version of what it's always been. I envy him his idyllic daydreams.