In his blog, David Kuo points to this TNR piece by Amy Sullivan and says that she "gets it right." Sullivan spends most of her piece urging liberals to exploit Kuo’s book for political gain. Is that what she gets right, according to Kuo?
It so happens I hadn't heard of Kuo or his book until about two weeks ago, when he happened to come up in a conversation with a priest friend. My friend used Kuo as an example of someone who fears taking a moral stand on any topic on the ground that it's divisive --and will savage Rick Santorum for being too political, but not Ted Kennedy. My friend's assessment finds echo in Knippenberg's piece:
he's striking his anti-political pose at a highly political moment, when a demobilization of evangelical voters could well be very costly for his erstwhile allies. Not a bad accomplishment for someone who once campaigned for and interned with the Kennedys.Tell David Kuo what: I'll "fast" on politics as he suggests, when he fasts on the profits from his book.
And parenthetically, there must be reason for Rove & The President's confidence about the election, or there wouldn't be such desperation to keep Republican voters from going to the polls. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing to keep in mind for the next three weeks is that newspaper front pages do not reflect reality.
