Posted on 10/17/2008 6:28:46 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Christopher Buckley’s endorsement of Barack Obama — followed by his abrupt departure from the back page of the magazine his father founded, National Review — has caused a ripple of contempt from the conservative Right.
Nay, make that a tsunami of hostility. An avalanche of venom. A cataclysm of ... well, you get the idea. People are mad. Good riddance, they say, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Christopher Buckley’s endorsement of Barack Obama — followed by his abrupt departure from the back page of the magazine his father founded, National Review — has caused a ripple of contempt from the conservative Right.
Let us proceed, gingerly.
I am not a passive bystander to these events. Buckley is a friend, as are other members of his family, especially Uncle Reid, with whom I have worked for several years. National Review is home to many friends, and its online editor, Kathryn Jean Lopez, kindly subscribes to my column. Like Buckley, I have enjoyed a decent fragging for suggesting that Sarah Palin excuse herself from the Republican ticket.
What gives here?
What does it mean that the right cannot politely entertain dissenting opinions within its ranks? What, if anything, does it portend that Buckley The Younger has bolted from the Right, even resigning from the family flagship?
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Elitist, insider pundits?
Who gives a crap? They are so 20th century.
As for me, as Sting would say:
I want my.......I want my........I want my Free Republic.
What the hell. They’re accusing us of some nonexistent jihad. Why don’t we give them one? Why do you think the libs are as successful as they are? They work in lockstep and purge the ones who stray too far to the outside. Organizing conservatives is like herding cats. Maybe we should give them the evil fatwa they claim to be under.
Another shining example of “you don’t inherit character when you inherit money”.
I opposed McCain as the GOP nominee and even considered voting third party, but after seeing the harm Obambi could do to our nation, I'm now voting McCain. Even if I wasn't, I wouldn't vote for Obambi and I wouldn't spend all my time bashing McCain's ticket. I stopped bashing McCain when the primary season was over. I've complained about him and criticized a lot of things he's done, but I haven't piously announced that he's beyond the pale and endorsed the baby killing, terrorist coddling, tax raising, gun grabbing, metrosexual, Marxist, corrupt, Jihad sympathizing, Neville Chamberlain clone. I certainly didn't pile on against Sarah Palin, after she was treated with unmerciful cruelty by the media, and subjected to “gotcha” interviews that were heavily edited by leftist news sources. Your disgusting piling on when she was being flayed by people not good enough to shine her hunting rifle was one of the most sickening examples of courting the media's favor in recent memory.
There's only one way for a Republican to get positive press, and that's to attack fellow party members and work with the ‘Rats. McCain did that for years, and he found that once he was nominated and running against a hardcore leftist, the media turned on him with a vengeance. They'll turn on you, too, Kathy, unless you make the full transition to leftism, which wouldn't surprise me at this point.
If there was a bad choice made during this election...it was selecting the liberal, judge-killing, illegal alien loving, socialist-bailout supporting McCain as nominee.
Cant believe everyone has forgotten his past liberal transgressions...which make whatever Parker, Buckley Jr, and others have done seem pretty tame
As for Palin, she was a great choice....McCain would have been a 50-state loser if it wasnt for Palin. The GOP needed to bring back the conservative base...not appease liberals.
The GOP would win this election had Palin been the Presidential nod.
Kathleen, get over yourself, you drama queen.
Yes, McCain sucks, but Obama sucks many, many times worse. Besides, the primaries were decided before I even got to vote (and there were many like me), so I don’t feel particularly responsible for that mess. I’ll put with McCain for the next few years because it will keep Barry out of the White House and give Sarah a chance to occupy it next.
oh yes..In the book, Right from the Start, the dispute is mentioned.
I e-mailed Parker:
Christopher Buckley is portrayed as an ‘heir to his father’s defiant spirit’, somply by defection to the side of a radical nihilist?
McCain’s been thrown into “The GOP’s abandoned us” category, so he’s defecting to a leftwing hack who’s diametrially opposed to every principle his father stood for?
He’s got to be joking.
Obama launched his career from the home of two domestic terrorists, who despite a clear history of anarchist philosophy and terrorist acts, were just ‘people in the neighborhood’. Yeah, and the Bolsheviks were just a local civic organization. Or is that ‘community organizers’?
He sat in a church for over 20 years listening to the sermons of a rabid moonbat who “god-damned” America and railed against “whitey” and Jews
He collaborates with radical groups like ACORN under the guise of “community organizing”.
Some of the world’s worst dictators and Islamic goons are head over heels for his campaign.
So far, he’s accumulated William Ayers, Bernadine Dorhn, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Amahdinejad, Louis Farrakhan, Daniel Ortega, Jeremiah Wright, and Hamas among your associates, admirers, and supporters. He’s a human bug light for despots, terrorists, and hate spewers. No wonder the democrats love him.
There are reasons for this and none of them are appealing.
He should’nt be a U.S. Senator, let alone a presidential candidate.
His Marxist economic theories, his foreign policy idea of playing diplomatic patty-cake with Islamofascist countries like Iran, and his communist roots, don’t play very well to a patriotic Middle America.
We give a damn about the leadership of this country, and we are not about to elect a nihilist who will pick up where Bubba Clinton left off, without a fight.
Tell Christopher Buckley good riddance and his ‘defiant spirit’ will only get him so far with his new found comrades.
From her rant:
“Instead, as Christopher Buckley pointed out in a blog post on thedailybeast.com explaining his departure from National Review, eight years of “conservatism” have brought us “a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance.”
Yes, I remember well how NR, Human Events, Rush Limbaugh and Hannity and others argued in favor of all those things, while the democrats opposed them...
Parker is an IDIOT!
Why does everybody think this chick is a small government/social conservative columnist? I remember reading her collectivist slant in the 90’s and shaking my head at her stupidity while reading the Orlando Sentinel. So she had a small revelation about Clinton, big deal, she still is a whore for the cult of personality.
If Gov. Palin had said....
1) FDR on TV and President in 1929
2) Hezbollah out of Lebanon
3) Article I of Constitution is Executive.
4) VP role only in Executive Article.
5) Three letter word “J-O-B-S”
6) Downhome bonifieds of frequenting a restaurant that has been closed for 15 years.
ANY OF THE ABOVE.
It would be all we heard for the next few weeks. Ms. Parker and Mr. Buckley bought into the MSM kool aid and sowed enemy propaganda within our ranks before an assault, and gave our electoral enemy a box of explosive ammo.
In war the penalty for that is to be shot on sight.
In electoral politics the penalty is derision and exile from our ranks, and a position as a token “conservative” on CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC, etc, ad nauseum.
LLS
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
I know many were not responsible for McCain nom because they had late primaries...but these states w open primaries did in the GOP.
The sad part is that BH Obama would have easily been defeated by a more conservative candidate...merely because the conservative base would have been rallied.
They are embarrassed that an actual American like Governor Palin has reignited those they so lightly dismiss.
The hell with them. I hope they are never allowed to forget and I want them to continue to whine so that they will continue to remember.
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