Word Soup

Blogger Andrew Sullivan is finally quitting the Conservative party, and I guess I'm supposed to care. This is a guy who, as a homosexual, has supported a party that fundamentally thinks he's an abhorrent deviant and societal scoundrel because of his sexual preference, and it took him this long to intellectually theorize that perhaps this isn't the political droid he was looking for:

"I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that assumed illegal, extra-constitutional dictatorial powers until forced by the system to return to the rule of law.

I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt.

I cannot support a movement that so abandoned government's minimal and vital role to police markets and address natural disasters that it gave us Katrina and the financial meltdown of 2008.

I cannot support a movement that holds torture as a core value.

I cannot support a movement that holds that purely religious doctrine should govern civil political decisions and that uses the sacredness of religious faith for the pursuit of worldly power.

All are, you know, solid points. But again, you know, I can't quite get my head around the fact he played part-time cheerleader for a party that believes he should be lobotomized and placed into a work camp because of his choices in the bedroom. He also makes the "revelation" after a decade and a few million dead "dark skin folks," so excuse me if I don't give a shit about his belated intellectual epiphany.