Bill Buckley -- greatly missed

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Fri, 02/27/2009

He died a year ago today. William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of the modern conservative movement and of its intellectual journal of opinion The National Review, was the catalyst who gave conservatives in this nation the courage to take back a government which had spiraled out of control since FDR and his New Deal.

Bill succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Ronald Reagan became President and gave us those sweetly remembered halcyon days. Compared to today under the new FDR those days seem like paradise. The government that conservatives fought so hard and so long to get off our backs has returned, bigger than ever. The new President is telling the American people that spending the nation into penury is the wisest of decisions. And that same President, a gifted orator, has presumably sold his recovery package to the country. His honeyed tones have made the largest government expenditure in the history of the planet sound plausible and doable and even desirable. The lemmings are going over the cliff.

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[Liberty Valance]

He died a year ago today.



Contrary to published reports, William F. Buckley is very much alive and well, using as little Arab oil as possible. Among other things I suspect he's packin' a pocket Constitution ;o)

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Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr. - 1925-2008

Sadly, it was one year ago today that the man who played such an instrumental role - if not the ultimate role - in the building of the conservative movement passed away at the age of 82.

That man is, of course, William F. Buckley, Jr.

It might have been George Will who said it best of Buckley's vital importance as the impetus of the modern conservative movement:

"All great biblical stories begin with Genesis,” George Will wrote in National Review in 1980. “And before there was Ronald Reagan, there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry Goldwater there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind, and the spark in 1980 has become a conflagration.”

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[Professor_Leonide]

Borders on idol worship. I’m a fan of WFB but our ideas predate him.

[ansel12]

“Borders on idol worship. I’m a fan of WFB but our ideas predate him.”

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That didn’t make sense, did some one say that Buckley created the ideas of conservatism?

[Professor_Leonide]

The whole “father of conservativism” is bothersome. Perhaps I’m biased because of how disappointed I am in what has become of National Review.

[ansel12]

I’m disappointed enough to have attempted to cancel it, but my ex girlfriend renewed it for me anyway, now I keep meaning to get around to it but will wait a while before I push it on her.

In the 50s and 60 and 70s National Review and Firing Line were the rare sources of conservatism for most Americans as we were awash in the old peoples sea of liberalism that they were dumping on us boomers.

[MSF BU]

Is that a Vesper? In any case, Mr. Buckley was very influential in my formative years. In my opinion, there is nobody among the young men at National Review who is filling his shoes. As an aside, he is one of the few prominent Americans, who in my judgment acted as though he believed in his religion.

[A.A. Cunningham]

using as little Arab oil as possible.

Except on his hair. There he didn't spare on the crude.