Back during the 2008 campaign, Andrew Sullivan sacrificed whatever credibility he had on the altar of his insane obsession with Trig Palin, Sarah Palin’s youngest son. Well, it’s been almost a year but the obsession continues: One has to wonder if Oprah will indeed ask Sarah Palin about the bizarre stories she has told about her fifth pregnancy.

The sovereign idea which inspires those who have used the name Whig has always been the same: a belief that the paramount public value is the freedom of the individual. Since the first Whigs developed in England, we have pursued this great and simple idea. We Whigs believe in a society in which every individual is free to do their best. For Americans today, it means each citizen living his or her own life, and doing the best for himself and herself. The one idea which has united Whigs for nearly four hundred years is that of freedom.