Oh, but it’ll rally his base. Shut up. No it won’t. It’s not like fiscal conservatives are going to go, “oh, you hate gays too, so your Medicare package must be OK.”
And worse, check out this poll. In fact, can’t we all agree to a general heuristic – if your political battle plan involves making Andrew Sullivan into a mortal enemy, you’ve erred. Severely. What a stupid, stupid idea.
UPDATE: It seems that Andrew Sullivan isn’t the only one who’s upset (although there’s really nothing like the fury of betrayal to really get someone going – he is pissed). From what I can tell, most of even the right side of the blogosphere – Allah, A Small Victory, Instapundit – is kind of disappointed in Bush. And VodkaPundit has a broader roundup to that effect. And why shouldn’t Bush supporters be disappointed – he just came out in favor of a deeply divisive policy which obliterates federalism, trashes the Constitution, and will never pass (unless I’m mistaken, isn’t getting behind an unpopular policy that can’t pass definitionally a losing proposition for a politician). This is a train wreck. Stupid stupid stupid.
