Unlike many bloggers I’ve always found the antics of “excitable Andy” less amusing and more tiresome. Sullivan is a not so much a character as a caricature, a cartoonish web presence who can be counted on to hysterically denounce his so called fellow conservatives using radical leftist arguments, while all the while claiming the mantle of “true conservatism” for himself.

In a way, Sullivan is like Pat Buchanan. What both call conservatism is a combination self righteous moralizing and left-Libertarian anti-Americanism. The Christianized Stalinism that makes up Buchanan’s social conservatism is only slightly different from the armchair elitism of Sullivan. Both are deeply disdainful of the freedom of others to disagree with them and more so of the ability of others to put those opposing viewpoints in the public arena.

The knee jerk anti-Semitism both display is a sign of similar freedom hating mindsets. Sullivan’s most recent Buchananism comes in this piece critical of Bill Kristol, who had the temerity to to question Barack Obama:

But Kristol is doing something much more pernicious: he is saying that Obama is faking faith, that his very profession of faith is a “mask” that is slipping, and that Kristol is the person to determine whose faith is genuine and who is a fraud.

A non-Christian manipulator of Christianity is calling a Christian a liar about his own faith. That’s where they’ve gone to already. And it’s only the middle of April. What are they so scared of?

Ah. The pernicious Jew, who dares to question a Christian. What are “they” (Jews) so scared of anyway?

They manipulate Christians all the time. You know, behind the scenes in their secret cabals. The synagogues of Satan basically run this country, Sullivan is saying, and now they’ve turned their ritual daggers toward poor innocent Barack Obama preparing to uses his Christian blood for their Passover Matzah.

Sullivan’s comfort with the trappings of White Nationalist argument gives a glimpse into his twisted and poisoned soul. This is the real Andrew Sullivan, a tiresome anti-Semite whose bile is vomited forth on an American public slowly waking up to the fact that Sullivan is no more a conservative than David Duke is.

h/t Ace of Spades.