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Are you really sure you want to say that? As you know, NR was founded by William F. Buckley

There are two things you know about any man who uses his middle initial in his name. First he deep down thinks he is inferior. He must use an initial to stand out. Secondly he thinks the people he is trying to impress with look up to a middle initial.

Would it imrpress you if I became Common F. Tator?

A person who tries to impress others with the size of his vocabulary does not think his thoughs will impress. He believes himself to be so inferior that he must impress with the size of his vocabulary and not the power of his thoughts.

All William F. Buckley has ever done is try to take credit for being the brilliant thinker behind the revival of the Republican party. He is not. He impressess the unknowing, ignorant and less bright. He does not impress much of anyone else.

There is a reason the Leftist dominated Public TV carried William F. Buckley's Firing Line. If Willian F. Buckley could not convince the viewing public that Republicans are self important pompous a$$es no one could.

There is a reason the Leftist dominated Public TV carried William F. Buckley's Firing Line.

Correct. Look at the initial backers and contributers to National Review. Communists almost to the man (McManus' book goes into this in great detail). All of them. Aside from a couple of CIA types. There is nothing conservative about NR. Never has been. They have had a few good writers off and on, but as soon as they stepped out of Buckley's globalist reservation, they were given the ax.

Dear CT:

Interesting point about the middle initial. I remember reading something years ago that while the use of a middle initial is pretentious, even worse is the formulation in which an initial is used to replace the first name, as in:

H. Carl McCall

Personally, I just grew up being taught to use my middle initial, but stopped doing so some years ago (frankly it might have been that article that influenced me)!

Yours truly,

G. Least GovernsBest

You mean, like FDR, Harry S, Dwight D, John F and George W?

Would it imrpress you if I became Common F. Tator?

No. But I don' think there's much else you could do either.

He impressess the unknowing, ignorant and less bright. He does not impress much of anyone else.

Thanks you for speaking for the rest of us, but actually, I find Buckley an entertaining and insightful writer.

Right Dubya Professor.

There are two things you know about any man who uses his middle initial in his name. First he deep down thinks he is inferior.

Buckley should be more like you and dispense with the middle initial. Then he'd be someone I could respect.