Michael Calderone, POLITICO.com, June 30, 2009
As U.S. troops leave major Iraqi cities today, POLITICO’s Patrick Gavin got the chance to hear one prominent war supporter’s lament.
Today at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Andrew Sullivan discussed his blogging — past, present and future — before a packed lunchtime crowd and it was Sullivan’s initial support for the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq that proved a prominent topic.
“I supported it like a teenage girl supporting the Jonas Brothers,” confessed Sullivan, who currently writes and blogs for The Atlantic. Sullivan would later admit that his support for the war was misguided and told the crowd that it wasn’t without its consequences.
“You lose all your friends,” said Sullivan. “You make enemies of everyone you used to hang out with. … My traffic went down by 60 percent when I denounced the war, but it went back when those on the left thought I was one of them.”
Sullivan also discussed his earlier days of blogging, when he did so without pay, save for a few generous donations from fans. “Lynne Cheney wrote us a check,” said Sullivan. “Those were the days.”
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