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That certainly quotes him out of context. When Bill Buckley convened a war council at NR in 1971 including publisher Bill Rusher and most of the editors in frustration with Thoroughly Modern Milhous who was up for re-coronation despite instituting such stellar conservative programs as the bootlicking China trip fawning over Chairman Mao and Chou En Lai and domestic wage and price controls and (IIRC) abrogating the Bretton Woods Agreement to facilitate mega spending increases, among other things.

I had the NR and Buckley inspired opportunity to work New Hampshire for Ohio Congressman John Ashbrook's challenge to Milhous. We did not expect Ashbrook to pull off the upset of the millenium. We did expect to embarrass and harass Milhous and we did. We did not make establishmentarian hackerama excuses like backing the most conservative (actually the smidgeon less social revolutionary and slightly less Marxist candidate masquerading as a "Republican") electable candidate. There is no conservative choice to be made between Robespierre and Danton and Madame LaFarge, even if one is a smidgeon more conservative than the others and is "electable." The conservative answer is that of Saint Dominic and the 101st Airborne: "Kill them all. Let God sort 'em out! (or God will know His own.)"

My wife worked more regularly for Bill Buckley and the man we knew would not have urged voting for trash like Romney. He would have encouraged us to take out the trash.