I wrote another letter to Andrew Sullivan today. His clarity, resolve and eloquence on the Iraqi liberation have been stunning. His courage against the NYTimes and BBC has moved mountains and catalyzed recognition of their biases.
I told him as much, but I also said, again, that I think he is being too hard on W's domestic policy. Much is hard to defend but there is NO small government choice in '04. Would you rather have (gasp!) President Gephardt?
Tony Blankley reminds the faithful of the unfortunate exigencies of plurality politics:
This is why politics is an art, not a science. Whether a liberal or a conservative, a president must intuit the narrow point at which his base is still motivated to strongly support him but is not fully satisfied. As Richard Nixon once observed, if your base is happy, you are doing something wrong. That is not a cynical observation but a practical one. Unless you can persuade 50 percent plus 1 of the electorate to share your view, you have to appeal to at least some voters beyond your base.