Peter Michaelson: Singing the Right-Wing Blues | BuzzFlash

Andrew has grown on us,, over here at the Lantern. We kinda like him.

Maybe it is is slight Libertarian leainings.

Maybe it is the fact that he hates idielogy and dogma as much as we do.

Peter Michaelson: Singing the Right-Wing Blues BuzzFlash:

In this season of conviviality and in the spirit of harmony, I picked up a library copy of Andrew Sullivan's book, titled The Conservative Soul: How We Lost it, How to Get it Back (HarperCollins, 2006, 294 pages). Sullivan is an editor at The New Republic as well as a contributor to Time magazine and The Sunday Times of London. His book should provide clues, I thought, to unravel the conservative psyche.

Is Sullivan indeed a soul man who can belt out the Right-Wing Blues? He confesses to having been an insecure, young nerd and a neurotic, fundamentalist Catholic growing up in England. He voted for Bush in 2000, but because of the president's 'nonconservative recklessness' he 'felt forced to back John Kerry' in 2004.