I canceled my subscription to NR a long time ago due to that utterance by the verbose Buckley.
His son's actions are not surprising. He would rather get the changeover to pure communism just a little more quickly by voting for a Marxist.
So Sarah Palin is a bad choice for Veep, so that’s a good reason to elect an appeasing Socialist to be the President. Seems to me that Buckley the Younger has a bunch less neurons than his dad, and most of those are misfiring.
Let me speak for WFB: "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
I pray to God Almighty that He have mercy on our sons, our fathers and ourselves.
He is also a lefty. I am not. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I’m libertarian.
That pretty much says it all. He's a Democratic who wants a cut in the capital gains tax.
What a surprise. His father would not agree AT ALL.
Bill Buckley would oppose Obama on so many levels, they could not be listed in this space. Yet his son says - he supports Obama because he seems to have a nice character (and at the same time pray he doesn’t destroy the country.)
What a lightweight.
It is not “bleeding obvious” to me. When the punditry describes Palin as an “embarrassment”, or a “cancer”, or “dangerous”, I seem to miss the points that lead one to draw these conclusions about her. I guess it is so obvious, that these people don’t feel it necessary to explain themselves.
What is obvious, is that these people are clueless.
There are differences, or at least so one might assume: policy, for one, principle for another. If these are less important to Buckley than "oh, he's just like me" then I suggest that states more about Buckley than it does Palin and McCain.
Obama is a committed socialist, the doctrine he learned at his mother’s knee. Christopher Buckley learned a very different doctrine at his father’s knee, but it appears his commitment is more, shall we say, flexible. Where the father loved to puncture the pretensions of the New York intellectual and literary elite, the son has been captured by them, and moves steadily in the direction of willingly doing their bidding.
It’s not that shocking really. He’s not his father, and can never be 1/10th of what his father was.
And he sees Hussein as having a superior "TEMPERMENT"?
Has he thought about the hundreds of appointees Hussein will make?
Has he thought about the fact that Hussein has never reached across the aisle?
Has he thought about the fact that Hussein has almost no real experience?
This Buckley is F-L-A-K-E-Y !!!!!!!!!!
Posted my reply at the site...
His son is an embarrassment to the family, he is the father of an illegitimate son conceived during an adulterous affair.
Worse, he refuses to pay child support or to have anything to do with the child and his mother (he has a restraining order preventing the child & mom from contacting him). He almost certainly pushed the mom to have an abortion (thusly - it is rumored - causing a serious rift with his father) the mother/mistress choose to have the baby anyway and Chris Buckley behaves as if the child doesn't exist.
WFB2 was a gentleman and class-act in every way... his son is something else entirely.
Perhaps it is time for his successors-in-interest to purge the magazine and its on-line companion of the equally unsavory elements who have over time found a home there; specifically, the elitist urban haute-bourgeoisie types who all went to the same prep schools, wear the same designer clothes, frequent the same bistros, and live in the same rent-controlled enclaves in Manhattan.
These people are to my ears increasingly indistinguishable from their liberal cohorts in their choice of interests and attitudes, and it is no surprise that they see qualities in Barack Obama that resonate powerfully with them. He is essentially one of them. A flinty Arizonan war hero and an Alaskan hockey mom do nothing for them because they do not know, have never known and will never know people like that anywhere in the cool cloisters of their privileged lives.
Buckley, Sr. was presumed by many to be a natural elitist by virtue of his upbringing, and in some ways he certainly was, but from what I have seen and read, he lived a life of exceptional variety and identified well with people of backgrounds and interests far different from his own. The fact that he wrote about them convincingly is proof enough.
It would likely make WFB sad to have to kick his own son off the team, so to speak, but he loved his magazine dearly and and was fiercely protective of it. In my opinion, the current editor ought to decide how much he loves it, too.
I didn’t realize William F. had a gay son.
All the Republicans who don’t like Palin can stick it. They might as well vote for Obama, because they are obviously uncomfortable with anything that is “too different” from a Democrat.
All the Republicans who don’t like Palin can stick it. They might as well vote for Obama, because they are obviously uncomfortable with anything that is “too different” from a Democrat.
A “Buckley” supports the establishment?
It’ll make some news, but is it really news? Where did he grow up? What schools did he go to? Who did his family hang out with?
Palin represents everything the people Buckley and Brooks are surrounded by loathe and look down upon. It would only be natural for them to say ... “see, its the Palins of the world that have messed the conservative movement up.”
The idea loses traction when one considers that absent the Palins of the world, there would be no more conservative movement ... except in lecture halls and books.
The “conservatism” Brooks and Buckley want is akin to the conservatism of Tory England. Unprincipled, fringe, and begging for scraps. But welcomed in their cigar clubs on the Upper East Side.
Without cheating and doing any research, let me guess that Christopher is a little light in the loafers?
is there a reason why I’m suppose to give a rats behind.