The neat thing about Bill was that it was utterly impossible for the media to portray him as stupid or ignorant. Anybody who tried promptly had his head detached and handed to him.
While I like Sarah, it’s too bad the most visible person in the conservative movement today isn’t similarly articulate and erudite.
OTOH, Buckleys don’t come along every day, so that’s perhaps too much to expect.
The libs invoke Bill Buckley as a paragon of courtly, soft-spoken conservatism, unlike those “rabble-rousers” such as Sarah Palin.
But the fact was WFB on his “Firing Line” show would quietly and unobtrusively nibble the flesh clean off of his liberal guests without ever raising his voice. They exited his show as denuded skeletons, never having felt a thing.
E.J. Dionne is just a bow-tied little twerp with a bad case of Buckley envy.