William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)

National Review Online ^ | 11/27/08

[Fury]

Very sad...

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Damn...

[FUMETTI]

Wow, a huge loss to conservatives.

[Sybeck1]

Man, my heart just sunk.

[RexBeach]

He was a superb person. God rest him.

[mware]

Bill meet Edmund Burke.

[Red Badger]

Not on WIKI yet......

[padre35]

Link perhaps?

Man, he was my favorite of the old School Republicans, his wit and wisdom will be missed.

[mware]

A man of very strong faith.

Catholic Pings.

[Clint N. Suhks]

RIP Bill

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Godspeed a very good man on the afterlife part of his life

[MinuteGal]

The Father of Modern Conservatism.

Rest in peace, sir.

Leni

[NeoCaveman]

May he rest in eternal peace.

[RDTF]

RIP

[McGruff]

Ouch. Guess he’s in a better place.

[Red Badger]

Rush should do the eulogy.............

[bkepley]

Intersting to see the reaction of the MSM.

[Petronski]

William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.

After year of illness, he died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas.

As you might expect, we’ll have much more to say here and in NR in the coming days and weeks and months. For now: Thank you, Bill. God bless you, now with your dear Pat. Our deepest condolences to Christopher and the rest of the Buckley family. And our fervent prayer that we continue to do WFB’s life’s work justice.

02/27 11:13 AM

[Biggirl]

RIP Willian F. Buckley.

[mware]

I’ll never forget when Buckley made a guest appearance on Laugh-In, and had a conversation with Goldi Hawn. Wonder if it is somewhere on the internet?

[mockingbyrd]

Eternal rest grant unto him Lord and may perpetual light shine upon him.

May his soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.

[purpleraine]

Great ideas to me. He and Goldwater shaped most of what I believe in now. For 25 years or so we watched him faithfully.

[Biggirl]

Sorry, forgot to add the “Jr.” part.

RIP William F. Buckley Jr.

[Charles Henrickson]

Bill Buckley was the intellectual progenitor of the modern conservative movement. A giant.

[JMJJR]

RIP Bill

[oust the louse]

God Bless him...he probably couldn’t take anymore of this liberalism being tossed about lately...

[fishtank]

....saw him debate some lib a long time ago in Texas (Michael Harrington, I think).....

A great man.

RIP, conservative warrior.

[CSM]

Dear Bill,

RIP and I’m sure you’re being welcomed into a realm free from socialists. You will be missed.

[Petronski]

I just had to take a moment to listen to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (BMV 1047), 3d movement (Allegro Assai).

[sam_paine]

Bill meet Edmund Burke.

w/ Russell Kirk, etc.

'Conservative Rout' indeed.

[Biggirl]

...Before Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Laura Ingraham there was William F. Buckley Jr.

[Huntress]

RIP, Mr. Buckley.

[daviscupper]

One of the “giant” has just started to fade away. He will live forever in the hearts and minds of all freedom loving men and women.

God Bless William F. Buckley.

[Mr. Mojo]

Long before the internet we conservatives relied on Buckley's National Review for the straight scoop. ...for decades.

And his Firing Line was unquestionably the best political talk show in television history. Unlike most of today's talk shows there was no yelling, no rudeness, and no idiocy.

[sam_paine]

Sad thing is, the closest writer/thinker America has in the wings to replace him is a Canadian.

[snowsislander]

Rest in peace.

[mware]

Agreed, Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke, John Adams, and WFB must be having a great time discussing the philosophy of conservatism right now.

[ARE SOLE]

Goodbye to a giant.

Best regards Bill.

[Raymann]

RIP, he held the tide against the socialists for a long time. Maybe soon I’ll be able to forgive his treatment of Ayn Rand.

[nancyvideo]

I’m crying. He was my hero. We don’t have many left. Godspeed

[MinuteGal]

"He and Goldwater shaped........"

How true. I'll bet many of us cut our conservative teeth on Mr. Buckley and Senator AuH20.

I'm feeling very sad right now.

Along with President Reagan, three of our founding mentors are now gone. Let's honor their memories by keeping the torch burning.

Leni

[headsonpikes]

Starting way back in my junior high school days, his National Review was the first beacon on my path to conscious conservatism.

God bless him.

[oldbill]

he was my favorite of the old School Republicans

Actually, he was NOT - that was his virtue - he was a CONSERVATIVE who actually led the fight to make the Republican Party the repository of conservatism.

His loyalty was to conservatism, not to the Rockefeller/Lindsay school of Republicanism, aka Democrat-lite.

When he ran for mayor of New York, it was as a Conservative against a Republican liberal. Announcing his entry into the race, he said:

"The two-party system presupposes an adversary relationship between the two parties. That there is no such relationship in New York Mr. Lindsay makes especially clear when he proposes as running mates members of the Liberal and Democratic Parties. Mr. Lindsay's Republican Party is a sort of personal accessory,. . . indifferent to the historic role of the Republican Party as standing in opposition to those trends of our time that are championed by the collectivist elements of the Democratic Party."

Those words could be used today by replacing Lindsay with McCain.

It is sad that on the day William Buckley departed this world and the perpetual battlefield of good versus evil, the dark forces were in ascendancy.

[F-117A]

God bless a great man!

[expatguy]

OMG how sad. He had a big influence on me when I was younger.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Fiji Hill]

God be with you till we meet again;
Ended when for you earth’s story,
Israel’s chariot sweep to glory;
God be with you till we meet again.

—Jeremiah E. Rankin, 1882

[Clemenza]

I posted this on the other threads, might as well share it here:

Really sad. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Buckley when I was VP of the College Republicans. He was a little intoxicated, but still a pleasure to talk to (we talked about the impact of left wing Jesuits on the Catholic educational system, if I recall).

He made conservatism look intellectually honest and sophisticated, and put together NR at a time when the Right was a national laughingstock. He is also largely responsible for taking the Right from a position of isolationism toward an informed internationalism, something the Buchananites will never forgive

[Clemenza]

Buckley’s greatest TV moment is when he told Gore Vidal “Listen, Faggot, if you don’t shut up I will punch you in the nose”, after Vidal called Buckley a fascist.

[TUX]

He and Goldwater shaped most of what I believe in now. He alone survived most of the early pioneers, and remained true to its cause. Misty as my memories have become I will always remember meeting him in 63.

[Clemenza]

Bill Buckley Sr. was one of the great oil wild catters back in the day, very similar to Daniel Day Lewis’s character in “There Will Be Blood.”