[Opinionated Blowhard]

What Parker, Buckley, Noonan and the rest of them don't understand is that conservatives are sick and tired of being bashed and told they are wrong. Every time something promising or hopeful comes up, it is aggressively shut down by the MSM. We don't need a Parker or a Noonan joining Eleanor Clift in mocking Palin. We've heard it a million times before gals—if we want to read about what a “joke” Palin is, harpies like Clift do a much better job than muddled, out-of-touch writers like Noonan and Parker.

As for Buckley, his reasoning for supporting Obama is laughably shallow. Obama is going to enact huge tax increases and wealth redistribution programs and will be able to do so with a 60 seat Dem majority. Buckley believes he won't because of some nonsense about “temperament.” And it also seems like he believes the MSM propaganda about McCain turning “nasty” during the campaign. This is evidence of sheer, air-headed stupidity. Its amazing that something like Christopher Buckley could be produced by William F. Buckley but I guess history is full of examples of famous people producing duds as offspring.

[aimee5291]

K. Parker is still seething over the comments she receieved on her anti Palin column

[Sudetenland]

More than increasing taxes, does anyone here believe that, should he be elected, Obama will adhere to President Bush's pledge that federal ownership in our banking system will remain either temporary or "non-paticipatory?"

If you do, please call me at 1-800-CON-JOBS. I'll be glad to set you up with your own battleship.

Honest! You can trust me.:)

[jocon307]

“As for Buckley, his reasoning for supporting Obama is laughably shallow.”

THANK YOU!

That is it, exactly. I read that column, and I was astonished by its monumental vapidity. If he had said I support Obama for some serious reason(s), that would have been one thing. But that nonsense about “temperment” was ridiculous, and ridiculously naive. The fact is we know very little about Obama’s true temperment, plainly he is a great dissembler, arguably he’s an “empty suit”, and his smooth exterior is just not a compelling reason to support him. And on the other side of the scale, the I don’t like McCain, he sounds too mean (I paraphrase) was equally shallow.

The piece was like one written by a twelve year old girl to explain why she is switching “best friends”.

Really embarassing. I can’t imagine what is up with Christopher Buckley, but there was NOTHING in that article that was worthy of any kind of intellectual respect.