Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 10/14/2008 11:44:46 AM PDT by publius1
Christopher Buckley, the author and son of the late conservative mainstay William F. Buckley, said in a telephone interview that he has resigned from the National Review, the political journal his father founded in 1955.
As a result, he wrote to Richard Lowry, the editor of the National Review, and its publisher, Jack Fowler, offering to resign, and “this offer was rather briskly accepted,” Mr. Buckley said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Mr. Buckley said he had “been effectively fatwahed by the conservative movement” after endorsing Barack Obama in a blog posting on TheDailyBeast.com; since then, he said he has been blanketed with hate mail at the blog and at the National Review, where he has written a column.
Mr. Buckley said he did not understand the sense of betrayal that some of his conservative colleagues felt, but said that the fury and ugly comments his endorsement generated is “part of the calcification of modern discourse. It’s so angry.” Quoting Ronald Reagan, he added, “I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.”
Mr. Buckley has joined a growing list of conservatives who have either endorsed Mr. Obama or questioned whether McCain now stands any chance of being elected. On Monday, the writer Christopher Hitchens also endorsed the Democratic ticket.
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He was "fatwahed"? He doesn't "understand the sense of betrayal that some of his conservative colleagues felt"? He thinks that the comments he received are part of the calcification of modern discourse. It’s so angry"?
Jeepers.
Some people had thought that he had brains... how is it possible "not to understand" when you quite consciously go out of your way to betray your friends, colleagues, & the movement your father brought to adulthood? I cannot imagine how good he feels being aligned with Christopher Hitchens.
I hope he lives for a long time. I hope that at some point he comes to understand what he has done to himself.
Couldn’t have been brisk enough!
When was Buckley ever a conservative?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Good...now somebody get his trust fund put in conservatorship before he uses his daddy’s money to start marxist foundations!
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Has Peggy Noonan endorsed Obama?
Amen! I think William F. Buckley must be spinning in his grave.
National Review may not be what it use to be. But it will survive without Chris Buckley -— more a political libertarian by character trait and thus, closer to a liberal. No significant loss.
Chris thinks Obama is a great writer.
Maybe now that Chris is between jobs he could investigate Jack Cashill’s research that suggests Wiliam Ayers wrote Obama’s books.
Peggy Who?
Buh-bye. Enjoy that tall glass of Kool-Aid that you’ve poured for yourself.
See ya, ya little twerp wanna-be. Now I don’t have to cancel my subscription.
Buckley is now “a man without a country.” When a man puts careerism and the embracing of a cult of personality before principle, all he can hope for is that Daddy kept a well-stocked wine cellar in which he can drown his troubles.
At what point did Christopher Hitchens become a conservative? He has allied himself with conservatives on some issues, but he is an aggressive atheist.
It would be quite funny if it turns out that Buckley was really impressed by Ayers, not Obama.
BS. In the past twenty years the Republican Party has been moving to the left and the Democratic Party has been moving to the left. Christopher [now looking for a new last name] just moved to the left faster than the Republicans have and fell into the arms of the 'Rats, who will use him for a night and toss him aside.
Independents and liberal republicans got to pick the GOP nominee, and he’s still not good enough? McCain is the most anti-conservative GOP nominee ever, plus he usually only works with Democrat colleagues in the Senate. But he’s still not good enough? McCain considered being the Democrat nominee for VP, and the Democrat presidential nominee wanted him, but it’s still not enough?
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