David, to the question of whether he's tried to answer the
"unanswerable smear," my recollection is "sort of." He's taken the
time to pound the desk occassionally about how gay marriage is only
one of many problems he has with Bush et al. But he clearly did
turn on Bush, in a way that he never had before, when the President
came out for the FMA. I'm not going to dig through his archive --
others have done so; feel free to Google -- but that's how I
remember it. Keep in mind that Andrew's half-cocked style of
blogging makes these things hard to pin down.