Kerry the Conservative?

What is Andrew Sullivan talking about?

So where is conservatism to be found?

...Where Bush has clearly placed American national interest above any international concern, Kerry insists that the old alliances - even with old Europe - need to be strengthened and reaffirmed. Kerry insists that he is a fiscal conservative, aiming to reduce the deficit by tax increases. He has argued that stability in some parts of the world should take precedence over democracy or human rights. He opposes amending the Constitution and supports legal abortion, the status quo Bush wants to reverse. He has spent decades in the Senate, quietly building an undistinguished and constantly nuanced record. He is a war veteran, who plays up his record of public service every chance he gets. He's a church-going Catholic who finds discussion of religious faith unseemly in public. In the primaries, he was the safe, establishment bore compared to the radical pyrotechnics of Howard Dean and the populist charm of John Edwards.

Let me get this straight.  It's conservative to:
1) put international over American national interest
2) raise taxes to reduce the deficit rather than cut spending or wait for the tax-cut-stimulated economy to grow and produce more revenues
3) be pro-choice and let millions of unborn childern be sacrificed to the god of personal convenience and it's-my-body-solipsism
4) not publicly discuss religious faith at all, despite the fact that our Founders and every generation of American politicians has done so (and for good reason)

Well, looks like I'm no conservative; neither are a whole lot of my friends and associates.  That's a big surprise.

If this is what the Right looks like to Andrew Sullivan, I think I'm going to have to pass on that new book he hopes to write, the one about how conservatism should be defined.  Perhaps I'll read someone who actually knows what he's talking about.

[By the way, Sullivan's last point about religion is particularly dishonest.  Kerry has gone out of his way to be photographed receiving communion, even at non-Catholic Churches.  Kerry's not following his faith but rather trying to cash in Catholicism for political points; he'd be better off becoming a Protestant rather than continuing to desecrate the Body and Blood of Christ.]