because they expose them!

I know what they’re trying to do!  I’ve never claimed to be Goldstein on the cross!

You know why they say my posts are crap?  Because I’ve struck a nerve and gored their oxen!  They’re rattled!  They’ve lost their ish!  Panicked!  Paranoid!  Undone!  Cringing!  They’ve wet their pants!  They’re buying Depends!  I’ve blown the lid off!

From Taranto’s WSJ Best of the Web:

The Critic Raves

Andrew Sullivan’s new book, “The Conservative Sole: How I Lost It and Ended Up With Two Left Feet,” has been drawing praise from some surprising quarters:

“This is a book about ideas, not political prescriptions. . . . It’s an attempt to start the long road back to conservative intellectual clarity. . . . If you still care about those first principles, and why they are more relevant today than ever, . . . buy the book.”–Andrew Sullivan

“If the book can prompt the usually level-headed David Brooks to contradict himself in order to criticize it and has sent Hugh Hewitt into conniptions, it might just be on to something about what has gone wrong with American conservativsm [sic].”–Andrew Sullivan

“They’re angry. They wouldn’t be if they didn’t know this book exposes them in ways few yet have.”–Andrew Sullivan

“These people are truly rattled by this book. I believe it’s a depth charge into the degerenacy [sic] of the current conservative movement.”–Andrew Sullivan

“Why are so many contemporary ‘conservatives’ lying about the contents of this book? The only reason I can come up with is that they are deadly afraid of its arguments. . . . Which is why you should read the book.”–Andrew Sullivan

Well, we’re certainly convinced. We would buy the book in a New York minute if our name were Andrew Sullivan. Well, unless we were a different Andrew Sullivan with the same name.

Links are in the piece.

Depth charge!  Miasma!  Exclamation points!

ROWRRRRRRrrrrr!  Yowsa!