Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama (Christopher Buckley)

The Daily Beast ^ | 10/10/2008 | Christopher Buckley

[Numbers Guy]

Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance.

Or would they? But let’s get that part out of the way. The only reason my vote would be of any interest to anyone is that my last name happens to be Buckley—a name I inherited. So in the event anyone notices or cares, the headline will be: “William F. Buckley’s Son Says He Is Pro-Obama.” I know, I know: It lacks the throw-weight of “Ron Reagan Jr. to Address Democratic Convention,” but it’ll have to do.

I am—drum roll, please, cue trumpets—making this announcement in the cyberpages of The Daily Beast (what joy to be writing for a publication so named!) rather than in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column. For a reason: My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in National Review Online a column stating what John Cleese as Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious”: namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. She’s not exactly alone. New York Times columnist David Brooks, who began his career at NR, just called Governor Palin “a cancer on the Republican Party.”

[Valentine_W]

I hope they kick completely him off the reservation - from what I’ve seen and read, he doesn’t represent conservatism or conservative values.

[Cyber Liberty]

That’s why I did the “/s”

[Valentine_W]

Sorry, I didn’t notice that.

[sc70]

Interestingly enough, in his NR column of 29 September 2008 (”A Thousand Points of Spite”), Buckley the younger wrote that Sarah Palin was “’ . . .a bit of all right.’”

He's a bit of fickle!

[Rastus]

In a movie called the Stoned Age, the main guy refuses to allow “Don’t Fear the Reaper” to be played in his car. He says it’s a, shall we say, “wimpy” song. His friend argues and says, “It’s BOC. How can it be a [wimpy] song?” He answers back, “Let me tell you something. Every band puts out a [wimpy] song so they can find out who the faggots are.”

Sarah Palin: Finding out who the faggots are since September 2008

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

i believe you are mistaken about Ms. Lopez.

[feralcat]

I had the exact same thought. Christopher Buckley is a good comic novelist, but after reading his books I got the sense that the author pretty much subscribed to the worldview of the liberal establishment.

I guess Chris Buckely’s “conservatism” is one of inertia, not conviction.

I suspect that we will see at lot more of this denouncing of conservatives by Chris in order to gain the approval of the liberal elites. Chris Buckley will become the next David Brock!

[Chrisalmond]

Judging by the fact that what he wrote has been re-posted here, the enormous amount of replies, and even your reply it is clear that many many people DO care.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

If you say so. Happened upon the thread and commented. Never gave a thought to what Chris Buckley thought before and hadn't given it a thought since 'til you brought it up. 168(now 169) is an "enormous" amount of replies?