Ping!
Mocking a persons confirmation in any church is vile and repugnant. William F. would have had the class to eschew such tasteless behavior.
if you are lending your name or your writing to ‘the daily beast’, you are admitting that you are joining the other side of the culture war.
So, so long Christopher. We hardly knew ye (apparently).
Let’s see if those liberals end up buying your books in the numbers that we did in the past.
This apple rolled a loooong way from the tree!!
Chris Buckley is a disgrace. WFB and his wife were, by most accounts, wonderful people. However, considering the way Chris has turned out (i.e., writing columns like this, fathering illegitimate children, etc.), the Buckleys’ parenting skills were less than stellar.
Chris didn’t have the guts to air his liberal views while his father was alive. Now he has diarrhea of the mouth.
I guess we should at least guve Chris credit for waiting until his father died before acting like a total a$$hat.
I can’t wait to see Iowa Hawk’s take on this.
Buckley is proof that rich people should not have children.
The sap must have run pretty thin about the time this man was conceived. He wouldn't make a good pimple on William Buckley's butt.
It angers me that these sophisticates look down their noses at Newt or anyone else who tries in good conscience to make peace with their maker.
I find that I, as a Baptist, have more in common with Roman Catholics than I do the more liberal protestant denominations - Presbyterian, Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopals, etc. We both believe in the basic Biblical teachings about homosexuals, abortion, and salvation. Exactly what does Mr. Buckley believe?
The better part of Chris ran down his mother’s leg.
Welcome, Newt, and may God bless you in your spiritual life!!
Sometimes the Apple, or the Nut, as it were, does fall very far from the tree.
Christopher Buckley has always been an A-Hole. He just would never have dared do or say the things he has when his parents were alive.
Bill Buckley and his wife, Pat, were devout Catholics and devout Conservatives throughout their lives.
“There will be an undercurrent of anti-Catholic bias in the commentary about Mr. Gingrich’s embrace of Rome.”
Yes, and Chris B. just ENGAGED in it. How droll, to not be prejudiced, but bring it up in a second-hand way.
His father will be rolling in his grave.
“Then why bring it up? We are all sinners. This is just gossip. “
Yes we all are. And Chris has his own planks in his eye over his personal living arrangements. Not the stuff his own Catholic family would be proud of.
So what’s the point? Newt’s not perfect, nyah nyah nyah nyan. Chris Buckley is probably welcome to attend church ... but does he? Or does he get too much of a hangover Sundays from saturday night martinis to afford the luxury of stepping out in the Sunday AM for communal catholic sacramental activity?
I’m no Newt fan, but I cannot stand the smarmy way Chris Buckley writes.
Good comments from Mr. Archbold. Sure, Newt Gingrich has done wrong things in his life. So did I before I joined the Catholic Church - and since then, too! That’s why we have repentance, confession, and absolution ... and then we sin again, of course. As Evelyn Waugh (iirc) once said, “But imagine how bad I’d be if it weren’t for the Catholic Church!”
Why anyone thinks being an unrepentant creep is a superior moral position is just beyond me ... although at least, if they make enough public noise about it, we know who they are and can stay well away.
Best wishes, Mr. Newt, and many happy returns, as it were!
“We like ourselves, don’t we, Mr. Buckley?”