Andrew Sullivans blogg The Dish är troligen den första politiska blogg jag stötte på.  Härom dagen annonserade han att han ska sluta:

Andrew Sullivan, the longtime blogger who was incredibly prolific in a way that is increasingly unfashionable online, announced on Wednesday that he intends to stop blogging at The Dish, the independent website he’s run for the past two years on money donated from loyal readers.

The sudden halt represents both the end of a blogging era – and perhaps its most famous blogger, watching a new, blog-less era pass him by.

“[A]lthough it has been the most rewarding experience in my writing career, I’ve now been blogging daily for fifteen years straight (well kinda straight),” Sullivan wrote in a blogpost. “That’s long enough to do any single job.”

Han kommer att saknas – men nu har väl bloggandet tyvärr ersatts av twittrande….

The Guardian

Men än håller Sullivan stilen.

Idag funderar han över Chris Christie och rubriken är:

How Big An Asshole Is Chris Christie?

Det är ju onekligen en välmotiverad fråga och Sullivan reder ut den väl:

But the more we learn about him, the more troubling a figure he seems to be. He can lash out; he can do rash things; he can be vindictive; he bullies; he does his best to cover things up; he has close ties and receives gifts from those who inevitably have business before the state; he acts like a minor princeling rather than a simply governor.

Of the entire GOP field, I find him the most troubling. I don’t trust him to wield power without corruption, small and potentially large. I do not believe he has the steady or calm character to be a solid president of the United States. I might as well say that now. For the record.

The Dish

Själv har jag bara sett Christie live en enda gång – på republikanernas konvent i Tampa där han höll talat som nominerade Mitt Romney. Dvs tanken var att han skulle tala om vilken förträfflig president Romney skulle bli. I själva verket handlade talat i huvudsak om vilken superpolitiker Christie själv var.

Ett av de värsta politiska tal jag hört i USA. Och jag har hört en hel del….