Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan is scraping the bottom of the barrel with his reflexive opposition to Sarah Palin. He spent much time flogging the rumor that Palin's fifth child was really her grandchild. Even after that rumor had been shown to be biologically impossible (given that Palin's daughter is 5 months pregnant right now, and pregnancies generally don't overlap), Sullivan nonetheless demanded (more than once) that Palin disprove the rumor by releasing her gynecological records. Then Sullivan gave credence to the obviously incorrect theory that Palin had named two of her daughters after television witches. He then criticized the Palin family three times in a single post for letting different family members hold the baby at the convention (I can only assume that Sullivan has never held a baby for any length of time, because they get heavy in one's arms.)

Today, Sullivan adds to his list of off-the-wall criticisms:

Family Values Update:

Is the party of traditional marriage aware that the vice-presidential nominee actually eloped with her now-husband?

Am I missing something here? Is there an anti-elopement movement out there somewhere?

UPDATE: Then there's this, also from today:

There isn't much evidence in her term as governor of any major Christianist initiatives or appeals - unless you count her family's bizarre personal life.

How is her family's personal life either 1) "bizarre" or 2) a "major Christianist initiative[]"? That doesn't even make sense.

UPDATE TWO: After three blog posts pointing out that a former business partner of Palin's husband had filed to have his divorce proceeding sealed (the insinuation being that he was trying to hide evidence of an affair with Sarah Palin), Sullivan had to backtrack once it turned out that the guy had just wanted to protect his privacy from nosy journalists. Alaskans are bizarre that way.