ANDREW SULLIVAN GRANTS FORGIVENESS TO OBAMA VOTERS: “If you voted for Obama in 2008 and don’t in 2012, you never really voted for him in 2008.”

Yes, it’s true. As with the amnesty given to Carter voters from 1976, most Americans are more than willing to forget the mistakes their fellow countrymen made during a year that was the electoral equivalent of tulip mania. Besides, as Sully himself said last year, inadvertently paraphrasing Pauline Kael, “I don’t know why anybody voted for Obama in the primaries.”