ANDREW SULLIVAN AND TRUTH

He brazenly titles another one of his cheerleader posts on conservatism "Conservatism is true" which he took from a Fareed Zakaria piece in TIME:

"Conservatism is true." That's what George Will told me when I interviewed him as an eager student many years ago. His formulation might have been a touch arrogant, but Will's basic point was intelligent. Conservatism, he explained, was rooted in reality. Unlike the abstract theories of Marxism and socialism, it started not from an imagined society but from the world as it actually exists. From Aristotle to Edmund Burke, the greatest conservative thinkers have said that to change societies, one must understand them, accept them as they are and help them evolve.

This is complete bullshit because conservatism is full of anti-empirical wackos, starting with Edmund Burke, who persisted in believing in the existence of a "shadow cabinet" that was up to all sorts of conspiracies despite NO evidence for it's existence.  Next in line is the father of modern American conservatism, William F. Buckley, who first came onto the American scene with the publication of his book God and Man at Yale.    This book was attacked by McGeorge Bundy for its dishonesty:

As a believer in God, a Republican, and a Yale graduate, I find the book is dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author and the writer of its introduction.

Finally, George Will is also out of touch with reality. He doesn't know how Social Security works, he supports an agit-prop rag and has been lying about global warming for years.