Sully ‘in bed’ with loverboy Barry?

No, as far as I know, Andrew Sullivan is not literally in bed with Barack Obama. We’ve seen more than enough of Obama’s stance on gay issues to say that (unless he’s running some huge repression by the American public), that that isn’t happening.

Figurately, though? Hell yes. Sully, a war-hawk conservative (do NOT call him an intellectual as part of that, because he isn’t; TNR and “The Bell Curve” prove that), was one of The One’s biggest conservative pundit “captures” last year.

And now? Sully’s apologetics for Just.Another.Politician.™ are getting almost as intellectually dishonest as Obama’s own promise-breaking.

Last time I visited Sully, he was apologizing for Obama’s Department of Justice staunchly defending the indefensible Defense of Marriage Act, to the point of linking to Lars Thorwald, a federal attorney, on Kos, who claims Obama was KEEPING a campaign promise, namely to restore the rule of law. (Sully later said Obama had broken (yet another) campaign promise, but still didn’t backtrack from the legal analysis support, including a later post saying that Lawrence Tribe (hey, didn’t you used to be a liberal law prof about 10 years ago) said the same thing.

The latest in rectal-cranial inversions? Sully lamely claims The One is right in uttering not a word of support for the opposition, on the grounds Ahmadinejad would use this to show Mousavi et al as Western pawns. His idea? Barry should wear a green tie.

Strange, Sully’s worries didn’t seem to be given a second thought in Berlin; Chancellor Angela Merkel called Basij thuggery “completely unacceptable.”

John Cole dashes more cold water on the “wear green” nonsense, hoisting Sully by his own petard in the process by saying it reminds him of warbloggers circa 2003, for their narcissism, among other things.

And, Sully has never had a narcissism deficit.

That all said, Sully’s been about as much a post-election disappointment as his love buddy. At least, if you actually expected him to use more of his intellectual powers in actually analyzing Obama.