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Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, said Tuesday he’s resigned from the conservative National Review days after endorsing Barack Obama’s White House bid, among the most powerful symbols yet of the conservative discontent expressed this election cycle.
In an online column, Buckley said he had decided to offer his resignation from the magazine his father founded after hundreds of readers and some National Review colleagues expressed outrage he was backing the Illinois senator.
“While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for,” Buckley wrote….
In his column Tuesday, Buckley expressed disappointment the magazine, and conservatives in general, were not more open to dissenting opinions that his own father once championed.
My father in his day endorsed a number of liberal Democrats for high office, including Allard K. Lowenstein and Joe Lieberman,” he said, adding later, “My point, simply, is that William F. Buckley held to rigorous standards, and if those were met by members of the other side rather than by his own camp, he said as much.”
There comes a time to make a statement. I think his is a fairly powerful one.
What do you think Dad would say?
Thanks, K B
The difference is that Joe Lieberman is a decent and honorable man – Obama is not.
#35–Big Carbon==care to give us a quick bullet list of Obama’s indecency? I’ll start your list with his two horrible associations both of which he has disavowed:
1. Reverend Wright
2. Bill Ayers.
Please continue……..
There’s your first clue, lying about documented truths. It doesn’t matter anyway, he’s a lock because ACORN already has the vote rigged. Not to mention that any of his stated policies are really just fiction to spew at speeches. What will really happen is that he’ll vote present on any piece of vile crap that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid send his way.
Watch his first 100 days – the market will tank even worse and gas will be back up to $4.00 in no time.
true conservatives everywhere are disgusted by the orgy of spending that was g.w. bush’s first six years.
senator mccain is a true conservative, but gov. palin is a neo-con.
and anyone who things that mccain is going to be able to uproot the system of neo-con operatives peppered throughout the administration by bush/cheney is a fool.
mccain will be bush/cheney, part 2, whether he wants it or not.
he’s a great guy, but i don’t believe for one second he’ll be able to undo the tragic excesses of the bush/cheney white house.
#36 “I’ll start your list with his two horrible associations both of which he has disavowed:”
After he was caught!
LOL
#36–bigfoot==nothing to add eh?
How do you move from disagreeing with someone to calling them not a “decent and honorable man.”
Do you find middle ground on other issues or do you always swing from one extreme to the other?
#39==Paddy==as always, idiot post.
#33 – Selvy
>>I find this amusing since Obama and his
>>supporters on the Left seem more intent on
>>stifling dissenting views in general:
So far your evidence that Obama and his supporters are “stifling dissenting views in general” consists of 1) the rights of Obama supporters to express their views and 2) the statement of prosecutors that individuals engaging in criminal behavior (be they Dem or Repub) will be prosecuted.
Wooo! Sounds pretty totalitarian, doesn’t it?
Now. If you have any REAL evidence to support your absurd claim, let’s hear it.
Otherwise, please STFU.
TIA
#34, well if Obama’s book had excerpts similar to items in Mein Kampf, you would have a point.
Read the analysis for yourself. It is by no means definitive.
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/more_proof_ayers_ghosted.htm
In “Dreams,” we read of the “whole panorama of life out there” and in “Fugitive Days,” “the whole weird panorama.
Ayers writes poetically of an “unbounded horizon,” and Obama writes of “boundless prairie storms” and poetic horizons—“violet horizon,” “eastern horizon,” “western horizon.”
“Fugitive Days” averaged 23.13 words a sentence. “Dreams” averaged 23.36 words a sentence.
More to the point, the 30-sentence sequence that I pulled from “Audacity” averages more than 29 words a sentence and clocks in with a 9th grade reading level, three levels below the earlier cited passages from “Dreams” and “Fugitive Days.”