Posted on 08/18/2009 5:04:17 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Today the Conservative Movement lost one of its toughest streetfighters. Veteran columnist, reporter, and pundit Robert Novak died at the age of 78.
Greg Gutfield gives him a blog-style obituary over at Big Hollywood:
Men like Novak normally don’t have a cult following, but he did. Because he was cool. While others would carry around dog-eared copies of old Hunter S. Thompson paperbacks, and believe nonconformity means acting like a nonconformist, fans of Novak knew that true rebellion meant rebelling against vacant rebellion. Novak, after all, wore a three-piece suit every moment of his life making him more of a badass than a tattooed and pierced Johnny Depp could ever think of becoming.
Here, here!
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Catholic convert and political commentator Robert Novak passes away
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