I said “credible” conservative.
Buckley - being dead - might make for a credible democrat, but he is certainly not relevant to today. I’ll even go as far as to posit that if Buckley were alive today, he would have supported Obama.
See post 94. Jack Chance came up with a good posibility with Tom Tancredo. But we can all agree that he is ancient history.
But then again... What with the GOP history of nominating old has-beens like McCain and Romney for president - they just might resurrect Tancredo in ‘16.
Whaddya think? Either Tom or Jeb Bush.
(puke)
You’re welcomed to posit anything you want as the conclusion to a contra-factual premise. But I find the notion that credibility, or for that matter relevancy, is dependent on whether the person is alive or dead curious to say the least.
I regard Edmund Burke, Lord Acton, Russell Kirk and WFB, Jr. to be credible conservatives as the forebearers of our movement, their having shuffled off this mortal coil notwithstanding. And it is an odd position for an American conservative to take that being dead makes one irrelevant: that sounds very much like the argument the Obamaites give for dismissing the Founding Fathers and ignoring the Constitution.