I sometimes wonder what % of McCain’s support is voters who are so repulsed by the foaming-mouth insanity of the McCain-haters that they simply are pushed into his open waiting arms.
As a teenager, I watched Firing Line religiously every month. Buckley is the reason I’m a conservative today. I found the 2 copies of National Review hidden in the back of the stack at my college bookstore. I kept on reading National Review when it was not only well written, but consequential. My favorite line from their editorial comments about the Falkland War: “World War I has inexplicably broken out again”.....
It’s not the same magazine. I’m sad...