Buckley resigns from National Review [endorses Obama]

Yale Daily News ^ | 10/17/08 | Eric Randall and Vivian Yee

[romanesq]

Man, you got it right, on ALL counts. What is going on with these people.
Peggy Noonan seems more interested in getting invitations to the gilded NYC Obamabot party set then speaking for the people she claims to represent.

I’m sorry to say, she’s gone. Gone forever. She apparently doesn’t like the subways anymore. She wants limousine liberal service for her good deed.

Peggy, that’s a disappointment. Chris here, well, let’s leave that alone in respect to his Old Man.

[feralcat]

I hate to question someone’s motives, but the more I think about what Chris Buckley has done, the more it seems like just a stunt to win favor with the liberal establishment. Chris was a comic novelist who almost never publicly expressed any political opinions. For years his only association with National Review (other than being his father’s son) was to speak at their anniversary dinners every five years. Suddenly he starts writing the back page column for NR during during Mark Steyn’s hiatus. As soon as Steyn returns from hiatus, he writes an endorsement of Obama, resigns from NR, and whines to the press about how nasty the right-wingers are being to him.

What, exactly, did Buckley expect would be the reaction to his endorsement of Obama?? He knew *exactly* what the reaction would be and did this to gain street cred from his liberal elite buddies. If Ralph Nader’s son wrote a column for The Nation and then edorsed McCain, I’m sure their readers would be furious as well.

How can someone call himself a conservative and then—because Bush, McCain, and the GOP aren’t perfect—endorse a leftist who agrees with conservatives on NOTHING?

[XR7]

ping.