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Patrick Appel stands in for Andrew Sullivan and promptly calls attention to Sully’s misleading witterings on ths subject of Palin.

The Daily Dish In Defense Of Sarah Palin

Where if you support Israel you are called anti-Semitic, where promoting sharia law means you support cultural diversity, where you attack a successful working mother and a pregnant teenage mother and you call yourself a feminist and where you degrade an infant with special needs and are convinced this means you care.

Ghost of a Flea, The Left

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You know your political culture has become morbidly calcified. .

. . .when an unknown moose-hunting soccer mom from some obscure town in Alaska shows up with a passel of kids and thereby presents A Clear and Present Danger to the American Left, simply because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers. . . they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick.

Drink-Soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for WAR, You know your political culture has become morbidly calcified. . .

“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”

“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy. The other kills her own food.”

Notice, though, that the joke relies on the comparison being made between the Democratic Presidential nominee and the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee.

Well, exactly.

There has been some rash speculation about the cause of Andrew Sullivan’s recent blizzard of Daily Kos-style posts, including a suggestion of dementia – which, given Sullivan’s medical condition, is a possibility I suppose. Whatever. His latest:

Did I just see Cindy holding Trig? I mean: can we have it one way or the other? Either the family is out of bounds or it is in the spotlight. Brandishing a child with Down Syndrome as a campaign statement is daring the press to ask questions about him.

Andrew Sullivan, Parading the Baby

Not parading, Andrew, holding. In the audience. Very unlike Michelle Obama and her two children appearing on stage at the DNC. Remember?