A friend of mine emailed me an alert about this blog entry of Sullivan's. Some of you may already be familiar with Sullivan. He considers himself a conservative and he is very upset with what passes for conservatism in the so-called Republican Party nowadays.

This entry puts the recent tempest of pigs and lipstick in its proper place. To quote an excerpt:

"For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must,  that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?"

Read the rest here.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/mccains-integri.html