Posted on 02/27/2008 8:35:55 AM PST by Dog
Just breaking on NRO...
A thoroughly interesting man with a fascinating background and career. He’ll be missed.
The most articulate conservative ever- prayers for him and those who loved him.
Already posted... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977106/posts
There was a man. Where would we be now if he had never lived?
During the sixties watching firing line was an elegant bitch slap back to truth.
I and my nation, and the world owe a lot to William F. Buckley.
A gracious, brilliant, articulate gentlemen has left the stage but leaves us the better for his presence.
To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. (Ecc 3:1)
There are no other threads this morning FRiend.
Major events always have multiple threads (unfortunately).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977107/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977106/posts
WFB RIP.
A great man and patriot. Eloquent and civil, the very best of conservative thought.
One of the greats has passed on.
As a NR subscriber (and I still have some tapes of Firing Line somewhere)...
Well Done, Mr. Buckley, GodSpeed and Thank You!
God speed Mr. Buckley. You are a patriot, and were a voice of reason.
RIP.
When wisdom was needed William F. Buckley was there. William F. Buckley will be missed by all...Rest Sir, your time now is done on this earth....
WFB was considered by the Brits to be the last American Renaissance Man.
Lesson for today:
William Buckley was a CONSERVATIVE who successfully led the fight to make the Republican Party the repository of conservatism.
His loyalty was to conservatism, not to the Rockefeller/Lindsay school of Republicanism, aka Democrat-lite.
When he ran for mayor of New York, it was as a Conservative against a Republican liberal. Announcing his entry into the race, he said:
“The two-party system presupposes an adversary relationship between the two parties. That there is no such relationship in New York Mr. Lindsay makes especially clear when he proposes as running mates members of the Liberal and Democratic Parties. Mr. Lindsay’s Republican Party is a sort of personal accessory,. . . indifferent to the historic role of the Republican Party as standing in opposition to those trends of our time that are championed by the collectivist elements of the Democratic Party.”
Those words could be used today, substituting Lindsay with McCain.
It is sad that on the day William Buckley departed this world and the perpetual battlefield of good versus evil, the dark forces were in ascendancy.
Asked what is the first thing he would do if elected Mayor of New York, he said “Demand a recount.”
Maybe he can get the Man Upstairs to get us a recount/revote for these primaries.
Very sorry to hear this. Prayers from our family for him and his.
thank you, Mr Buckley RIP
So long dear WFB! You will be missed. Dear Lord please welcome in your faithful servant.
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