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I read (at TPM?) that Buckley resigned from National Review after his endorsement of Obama caused an avalanche of hate mail.


... I forget why I'm forwarding that information.

His allowance has been cut off:

"It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance," he wrote.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co … c-politics

The penalty turned out to be more severe. William F. Buckley Jr.'s son said yesterday that he had lost his back-page column in National Review, the conservative bible founded by his father.

"Within hours, poor NR was being swamped with furious mail, 'Cancel my subscription, this is betrayal, Judas, Benedict Arnold,' " Buckley, 56, said in an interview. "I thought the decent thing to do would be to offer to resign the column. Well, they accepted it."

Buckley can't be completely disappeared; the Washington author owns one-seventh of National Review and serves on the magazine's board. But he is the latest right-leaning pundit to be slammed by his side for criticizing or breaking with John McCain.

National Review editor Rich Lowry, a Bill Buckley protege, told readers in a posting that the younger Buckley had been writing the column for several months on a trial basis, although Buckley believed it was permanent.

Orwell Wrote:
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Kristol's in televised a tiff with the McCain campaign and Kathleen Parker claims she's got death threats after questioning Palin's abilities. Now Buckley. These are supposed to be "A" list pundit talent. Another 4 years of Republican presidency would go a long way to wiping out many of these propagandists; there's a limit to how stupid they're willing to appear in their support of obvious incompetence.

But instead, they'll be thrown some fresh democrat meat during the worst possible set of political and economic times reasonably imaginable, and they'll come roaring back. Not much can be done about it I suppose.

It seems it was Kristol and his neo-con friends who pushed Palin as VP because they figure her as a blank slate, the next Bush. And McCain's campaign is all too aware of the damage her selection has done to his broader electibility. So Neo-cons looking to 2012 may have torpedoed McCain. I can see why there'd be some bitterness there. Those who takes Kristol's advice deserve what they get; the man's a moron of the first order.

Last edited by Ribtorus (2008-10-16 3:23 pm)

Farmerkev wrote:

Ribtorus wrote:

But instead, they'll be thrown some fresh democrat meat during the worst possible set of political and economic times reasonably imaginable, and they'll come roaring back. Not much can be done about it I suppose.

That's really the most interesting part, total Dem control looks very possible.
Just like the Reps before them, no excuses for they do.

I don't any of us here are in any mood to offer the Dems any excuses, do you?

user wrote:

Farmerkev wrote:

Ribtorus wrote:

But instead, they'll be thrown some fresh democrat meat during the worst possible set of political and economic times reasonably imaginable, and they'll come roaring back. Not much can be done about it I suppose.

That's really the most interesting part, total Dem control looks very possible.
Just like the Reps before them, no excuses for they do.

I don't any of us here are in any mood to offer the Dems any excuses, do you?

Nooooooooooooooo.
I'd never imagine such an event.
Stand up Chuck!

georgetown cocktail party conservatives

Powell’s unassailable national security credentials...

really

Tallgeese wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Here's another one: Colin Powell might be about to endorse Obama

I've been seeing that rumor all year.

I've seen that one too.  I still haven't forgotten the impressive way he threw away his credibility at the UN and I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers it.  As such, I'm not really holding my breath for him to endorse Obama.

bedstuy wrote:

It would still be a huge blow psychologically to the righties.

The very reason I'm not outright opposed to the idea that he would do it.  As I say, though, I won't hold my breath for it.

OH smurf

(who is he now?)

(don't really care, it's just remarkable that they're publicly switching allegiance to black jesus this way...)