Mark Steyn: An old [Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.]line rings new

The National Review ^ | September 05, 2008 | Mark Steyn

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Roger Kimball muses today on an old WFB line:

In the early 1960s, Bill Buckley famously observed that he would rather be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston phone book than the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

After my post last weekend re Governor Palin, a number of readers modified the thought along the following:

I would rather be governed by the first 500* names in the Wasilla, AK phone book than by the editors of The Harvard Law Review.

(*Presumably reduced from 2,000 because, what with all those five-kid households, there probably aren't 2,000 names in the Wasilla book.)

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So true...

[Jeff Head]

Exactly. Take a good hard look at this all-American family...and then if you're a liberal, be afraid, be very afraid.

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