Posted on 10/10/2008 8:46:20 AM PDT by Numbers Guy
Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance.
Or would they? But let’s get that part out of the way. The only reason my vote would be of any interest to anyone is that my last name happens to be Buckley—a name I inherited. So in the event anyone notices or cares, the headline will be: “William F. Buckley’s Son Says He Is Pro-Obama.” I know, I know: It lacks the throw-weight of “Ron Reagan Jr. to Address Democratic Convention,” but it’ll have to do.
I am—drum roll, please, cue trumpets—making this announcement in the cyberpages of The Daily Beast (what joy to be writing for a publication so named!) rather than in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column. For a reason: My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in National Review Online a column stating what John Cleese as Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious”: namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. She’s not exactly alone. New York Times columnist David Brooks, who began his career at NR, just called Governor Palin “a cancer on the Republican Party.”
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This is certainly a surprise. /s
This apple hit the ground and immediately rotted.
BTW I apologize for not putting a “barf alert” in the title. Trust me, it’s barf-a-licious.
What an idiot.
You would never know my brother and I are related either on some things though.
for later
What a sad testament to his parents. He obviously didn’t really even know them or what they stood for.
Dear Chris, go back to writing bad novels that no one would publish if your name weren’t Buckley. Good thing your dad left you some bucks.
Ahhh to be young and ignorant again.....
Or the best parts was left as a stain on the bedsheet...............
Where is he going to school......err indoctrination camp?
Funny enough, he worked for Ron Paul’s campaign and they claimed it was proof they had Buckley’s legacy.
http://www.nndb.com/people/138/000115790/
Why don’t guys like Buckley and Brooks just proclaim they are Democrats and be done with the facade.
/barf
I equate his IQ to the acorn losers you see on tv.
Is this just bad satire?
May he join Obama in defeat.
He's not that young, but the other part is right.
Chris Buckley’s second mistake here is thinking that somebody cares.
Young Mr. Buckley is a weasel, isn’t he?
He really believes what he’s hearing from Mr. Obama and his minions?
What a jerk.
If he thinks Mrs. Palin isn’t prepared for high office, how Obama? who hasn’t done a damned thing in the US Senate nor in the state Senate in Illinois.
Mr. O is an empty, socialist suit who does a really superb job of reading speeches from a teleprompter.
Mr. Buckley, you are an ignorant putz.
Pity.
So, should we cancel our NR subscriptions? I don’t particularly want to provide support for an institution that is so far off from my beliefs.
It’s become clear. Germans love David Hasselhoff. Metrosexuals hate Sarah Palin.
Let me help you, Chwis. You are a liberal.
Useful idiot?
THAT’s what I’m wondering...this cannot be....
Doesn’t Chris have a child to be negligent with?
Don’t smoke pot, people. It messes with your reproductive parts...
Sorry, Dad, I’ve lost my brain.
The best thing about Sarah Palin is that she is the fastest way to drive the country club Republicans out of the party. They’ve long been captured by secular intellectuals. It will clear their lives of cognitive dissonance if they become Democrats. In fact, they will find it positively liberating.
Don't come crying back to the conservative movement when your socialist utopia crashes and burns in a End of Days "fashion."
I agree. I think what we are seeing is that these type never were with us. They were token liberals masquerading as Conservatives.
What's really sad is that he thinks Obama will somehow be restrained from governing as a leftist by Congress. Apparently he thinks the House and Senate are still controlled by Republicans, or perhaps that Nancy Pelosi is Sam Rayburn Jr.
He’s not hair on dad’s arse.
I think the arrival of Sarah Palin means this kid is going to have to find a new job. As his father so eloquently stated: “Cancel your own damn subscription!”
This guy is living proof that intelligence may not be genetic.
Same here, by brother is a die-hard democrat. We never discuss politics, ever!
This only confirms what is wrong with the modern “conservative” movement. “Conservative” elites in the Washington-Wall Street corridor hate regular Americans as much as do the liberals they go to cocktail parties with. That’s why they hate Palin, just like they hated Ronald Reagan: She’s one of “them,” that is, one of us.
Its obvious Mr. Buckley used up the genetic pool for intellect in his family.
Voting for 0bama? You’re not a libertarian, conservative, or intellectual. What is it Chris, does The One make you all tingly? Do you think he “cares?” Or maybe you find him “sexy” like the ladies on the view?
Whatever it is, it isn’t because you have an understanding of economics and after careful review believe 0bama will restore our economic vitality. Anyone who seriously buys that can officially be diagnosed as retarded.
What a pathetic article. He won’t vote for McCain because he’s snarly? He likes Obama because he writes his own books? LOL. Chris, come out of the closet already.
I guarantee Christopher totally agrees with his father’s stance on drug legalization.
He's known for that.
Not surprised at all that Chris would hate and despise Holy Rollers.
What a pathetic uninformed fool!
His dad hasn’t been dead very long and Christopher is addressing the title to him in a direct snub.
SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE’S THE MONEY QUOTE FROM THE RETARDED, STUPID, IGNORANT, PRETENTIOUS, DUMB, STUPID, INEPT, INCOMPETENT, FRICKING MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.”
A machine-party dem. who promises with great passion to be a traditional lib, who promises every minute of every day, non-stop till he’s blue in the face, who promises and promises and promises to be a FRICKING LIB!!!!!!!!!! will not, in fact, be a lib.
OK. It is one thing to say McCain-Palin is a crummy republican ticket. That can be legitimately argued from multiple angles.
What cannot be argued with any seriousness of conservative thought whatsoever is that somehow Obama is a better choice. OR that somehow Obama is more qualified than Palin.
THis Buckley character is an intellectual midget.
He inherited a self-obsessed passion for wordsmithing, I guess, but missed out on the brain part.
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