But, now he behaves as if the man is evil incarnate and can do no good.

Since posting this piece, then reviewing his blog, it doesn’t seem those buds of hope have blossomed into anything more than bile.

He really is a hateful, loathesome pig.

But at least there’s good news. If I read this correctly, Sullivan may be forced to leave the US in 9 months. Proof that every cloud, and even bad laws, often have a silver lining.

[I wonder if Sullivan is aware and if he were if he'd be willing to acknowledge that the president who loves to hate favors repealing the law which might require him to leave the country. --Dan]

I honestly don’t care if he shows “snippets” (to use Obamas word) of sensibility, he has proven himself entirely untrustworthy, and frankly, despicable.

Not even when he was shilling for Ron Paul?

Not even when he was airing whackjob conspiracy theories like:
- Alex Jones’s theory that Cheney shot Harry Whittington at much closer range than he claimed.
- The UK terror plot was a hoax cooked up by Bush and Tony Blair to distract from Joe Lieberman’s primary loss.
- Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld deliberately sabotaged the rebuilding of Iraq to create a pretext for carpet-bombing the region, which St. Andrew labeled “the Likud strategy.”

Not even during his deranged and Dishonest Jihad against Glenn Reynolds?

Not even when he agreed with Dick Durbin in describing our troops as Nazis?

Not even when he was posting personal ads soliciting for unsafe sex? Or when he was boasting about how much hotter sex was when you’re HIV positive.

Not even when he made moral equivalence between our soldiers and terrorists?

This old post at AoSHQ has a good run-down of Sullington’s more emotionally unstable rants, including one against chicken farming,

Wouldn’t it be better if he hadn’t gone all hysterical, irrational and (essentially) anti-American in the first place?

It made it somewhat shocking to watch him spiral into stupidity after 2003.

Shouldn’t confuse disagreement with any of those things. While I often agree with him, I sometimes disagree, too. But I’ve never found him stupid, irrational, nor hysterical. And I’ve certainly never found him to be anti-american.

I’ve found myself at times in disagreement with people on this site, and I’ve seen firsthand how disagreement is often linked with various and sundry mental or logical disorders.

Then he capitalized on his ‘name’ as a conservative, and wrote a very non conservative book.

Would that be The Conservative Soul? Not conservative? We read the same book?

The fact that he has been in the Obama camp from the getgo makes him suspect in my mind. Obama is as far left as one can get, and if someone as bright as Sullivan can’t acknowledge that – we have a problem. The least he could have done is be honest and say he’s no longer a conservative.

I guess I’ll wait for others to point out his lucid posts, since that was how I found out about the two you mentioned.

Could he come back? Maybe. Will I ever hold him the same regard? Mmmm….

I chanced upon two posts which showed he had retained some sense. In one, he acknowledged he was wrong when he predicted the failure of the surge. In another, he expressed concerns about the “soak-the-successful” aspect of Obama’s tax proposals.”

Oh, please. He only does it as tactics so that people like you will write exactly the post you’ve written. Wouldn’t it be better if he hadn’t gone all hysterical, irrational and (essentially) anti-American in the first place? And does anyone here doubt, for one second, that he will endorse Obama most heartily?

I wouldn’t mind making The Dish a regular stop again – one of these days.