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Good times. Good times.
Posted on 03/02/2008 12:49:33 PM PST by neverdem
Nice article - thanks for the reminder of his debate with Gore Vidal.
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Good times. Good times.
it’s a shame libs and conservs don’t get it on like that any longer!
Libs still call conservatives Nazis, but the most common conservative response is to assume the fetal position.
Thank goodness,Buckley never said to hold one’s nose and vote for the RINORAT Weiker in 1988 over Leiberman. Some RINOs are telling the conservatives to shut up,hold your nose and vote for Nasty McPain in 2008. Can’t imagine General Buckley saying that.
Another great line from Buckley during their 'conversations': ''Go back to writing your pornography.''
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I would call them RINOs not conservatives. The Great One, Mark Levine would call them back benchers-such as radio talk show host Michael Medved.
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Forty-nine years ago, he wrote, “We must bring down the thing called liberalism, which is powerful but decadent, and salvage a thing called conservatism, which is weak but viable.” It is an unending struggle because while the facts of life are conservative (as his friend Margaret Thatcher put it), liberalism is eternally seductive. But, as they will tell you in the capitals of post-Communist Eastern Europe, the world is better off because William F. Buckley Jr. stood athwart history and changed its course.
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“it’s a shame libs and conservs don’t get it on like that any longer!”
William F. Buckley was a lieutenant in the infantry, when not being intellectual and sophisticated, he was one tough SOB.
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Buckley & Vidal at Chicago Convention, 1968!
The beginning of the end for political commentary! What they began in that exchange has evolved into politics as professional wrestling.
WFB BUMP!
Mark Steyn BUMP!
Great tribute to Mr. Buckley by Mark Steyn. Thanks for the ping.
"But, in reality, Bill was, as he would say, the fons et origo of a conservatism that came out swinging — sometimes literally, as in a famous TV encounter of 1968. “As far as I am concerned,” drawled Gore Vidal, “the only crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself.” “Now listen, you queer,” replied Buckley. “Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.” Indeed. And, if “You Nazi!”/”You queer!” isn’t exactly up there with Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward in the devastating repartee rankings, well, Vidal started it...
I’m sure even now some New York Times type is tutting that Buckley’s movement has fallen into the hands of vulgar bullies..."
The Pons asinorum of pinko liberalism and Fabian Socialism.
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