Posted on 07/22/2006 8:45:38 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
That is true, and I couldn't be prouder of the fact.
This just in... the Pope is Catholic!
Buckley and Buchanan...you can always count on them to be against Israel. The Euro-Arabist elitist way these geezers think is really out of date.
They are brilliant, articulate, but, could it be that "Jewish" thing?
Who does? That is, when you can even make out what the man is saying!
School. Rush completed HS & a semester of college at a small time U.
Buckley needs to leave his ivy covered ghetto once in awhile--see America.
Like so many GOP presidents (except RWR, perhaps) Mr Bush is pretty good internationally and weak on domestic.
Buckley is a great theoretician, and we owe him much for founding modern conservatism. But he is not a political strategist or tactician. Read and enjoy him, but remember his limits.
"... the only thing you have left is to b*tch, moan, and whine, on Internet forums."
Ahem. And just what are you doing, Mr. Mainstream?
and spend time with his canine companion, Sebastian.
"Buckley is getting fuzzy in his old age. But, that's to be expected."
I don't think it's that he's getting senile, I think most people reach a certain age beyond which their worldview can no longer be changed. People like Buckley sees the world through 20 year old lens. To him being conservative probably still means fighting communism. The USSR was the big enemy in his day, I don't think he sees Islamofacism as the same global fight, and I don't think he's capable of seeing it in the same light. That's why he's incapable of seeing its significance.
ok.. I am sure you know I am talking about Rush Limbaugh..I don't believe he has a college degree..yet in 1994..when the GOP took control of BOTH chambers of congress..Rush was made an honorary member of the rookie class that took over..for all of Buckley's funny and witty work..he could never do that..that is my point..I like William Buckley..but he just didn't sell "in Peoria"..as the saying goes...
You got Buchanan nailed but I don't know what you're talking about with Buckley.
They won't push a point, or back a liberal into a corner. They were the happy conservative minority when the Democrats controlled all branches of government, content to sigh and wearily shake their heads at the follies of the liberals, secure that things would be better if they were in charge, but secretly happy that they weren't.
Bush is right about the Iraq war.
Buckley? He brags about being the extreme left wing of the right wing. I think he was a bigger disaster than Bush Sr. and that is saying something.
He is a symbol of the power of the modern neo-conservative movement. Paleo-conservatism isn't an issue to libs, because paleo-conservatism doesn't adopt liberal stratagems for political gain. Bush and the neo-cons are a prime threat to the libs precisely because they are so much like the libs. Paleo-conservatism can't survive in a democracy, because it tries to take the long-view approach and shuns populism. Neo-conservatism is, however, totally populist and as such is closer to the leftists in form if not quite in ideology (although it seems to me that logically ideology will follow form eventually), which is why it's so dangerous to the left. Note the slow change in rhetoric, it's not conservative ideals which are bad it's neo-cons themselves, those idiot red staters.
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