I think I understand what you are saying, in other words Sullivan like so many homo’s wants to be hated, it is where there power comes from, there have been so many phony homo hate scheme’s that have failed to gin up more hate, so Sullivan is taking this different approach.
As for Palin he pretends to sympathize with the right, thinking this will also gin up more hatred, thereby increase the power of the homo’s.
Actually, most of the time I don’t know what Sullivan believes - outside of his steroid-induced hatred of women and anyone who doesn’t agree with either he or the gay agenda. For whatever reason, he chose to distance himself from this soviet-style action. But he’ll be back at it next week.