February 4, 2008 12:39PM # Sullivan on Wehner on Obama By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) --- SHARE Peter Wehner argued in yesterday’s *WaPo* that, although it’s seemingly impossible to dislike Obama, [the guy’s just too liberal for conservatives to support](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102663.html). Andrew Sullivan, the conservative author of a [favorable profile of Obama](http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama) in the *Atlantic* a few months back, [chimes in](http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/wehner-on-obama.html): > If a Democrat ran for office today pledging a massive increase in entitlement spending, a decades-long multi-trillion dollar nation-building project in the Middle East, the biggest increase in discretionary spending since LBJ, a huge increase in the power of the executive branch, a doubling of the federal education budget, a de facto amnesty program for 12 million illegal immigrants, and a cool additional $32 trillion to the country’s unfunded liabilities … would Wehner be saying he is out of bounds for conservatives because he is a special interest group liberal? > > > Nothing in Obama’s policy book comes even close to the massive lurch to the left that Pete Wehner engineered and supported and celebrated when it was done by a Republican president. Ouch. That’s going to leave a mark. ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).