It seems Andrew "Jingoist-In-Chief" Sullivan is wavering mightily against Bush because of his misprosecution of the War. This could be a big deal, not just because alot of people who read his blog could be turned towards Kerry or away from Bush, but I feel he reprsents Republicans that can be turned to Kerry. This guy was one of the chief blogger-hawks, remember. Here are some quotes from his most recent post (emphasis mine>:
I cannot deny that the terrible mismanagement of the post-war - something that no reasonable person can now ignore - has, perhaps fatally, wrecked the mission. But does it make the case for war in retrospect invalid? My tentative answer - and this is a blog, written day by day and hour by hour, not a carefully collected summary of my views - is yes, I still would have supported the war. But only just.
The United States made its case before the entire world on the basis of actual stockpiles of dangerous weaponry. No such stockpiles existed.
The one anti-war argument that, in retrospect, I did not take seriously enough was a simple one. It was thats this war was noble and defensible but that this administration was simply too incompetent and arrogant to carry it out effectively...I was wrong. I sensed the hubris of this administration after the fall of Baghdad, but I didn't sense how they would grotesquely under-man the post-war occupation, bungle the maintenance of security, short-change an absolutely vital mission, dismiss constructive criticism, ignore even their allies (like the Brits), and fail to shift swiftly enough when events span out of control...The job is immense; and many of us have rallied to the administration's defense in difficult times, aware of the immense difficulties involved. But to have allowed the situation to slide into where we now are, to have a military so poorly managed and under-staffed that what we have seen out of Abu Ghraib was either the result of a) chaos, b) policy or c) some awful combination of the two, is inexcusable...By refusing to hold anyone accountable, the president has also shown he is not really in control. We are at war; and our war leaders have given the enemy their biggest propaganda coup imaginable, while refusing to acknowledge their own palpable errors and misjudgments. They have, alas, scant credibility left and must be called to account. Shock has now led - and should lead - to anger. And those of us who support the war should, in many ways, be angrier than those who opposed it.
And then, when November comes around, we have to decide whether this president is now a liability in the war on terror or the asset he once was. How he reacts to this crisis - whether he is even in touch enough to recognize it as a crisis - should determine how the country votes this fall. He and his team have failed us profoundly. He has a few months to show he can yet succeed.