ANN COULTER: WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: R.I.P., ENFANT TERRIBLE

AnnCoulter.Com ^ | Feb 27, 2008 | Ann Coulter

[PjhCPA]

Thank you much for looking the term up and explaining it.

I love your tag line. Amen to that.

[PzLdr]

When he ran for Mayor, in 1965, he was a riot. When Lindsay [and nobody could load up the syllables in “John VLIET Lindsay” like WFB] came up with the slogan “He [Lindsay] is fresh, and everyone else is tired”, Buckley ran with it: [Abe] Beame “is short, and everyone else is tall”, and on and on.

One of his position papers called for building a raised bicycle path: “The Buckley Bike way. My finest moment”. The book he wrote about that campaign “The Unmaking of A Mayor” was the funniest political reminiscence I ever read.

[mware]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-3-8eH-xv4&feature=related

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Rest in peace, Conservative Warrier. God bless you.

[rbmillerjr]

Great thread.

Buckley on Firing Line, yes those were the days. He knew how to turn a couple of words into a MIRV that sliced his opponents like a surgeon with a scalpel.

[KoRn]

"Buckley replied: "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto Nazi, or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered."

ROFL!!!!!

[kindred]

[That’s what I meant when I said people haven’t grown less civil, just hyper-sensitive. It’s our perception that has changed, and not for the better.]

Yes, exactly.

[Volunteer]

"Buckley replied: "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto Nazi, or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered."

Mr. Buckley, I hope you are now at rest. We are richer for having known you and sadder now that you have moved to the next life.

[penelopesire]

Very funny....We could use that first line to explain Obama Mania...”He is fresh, and everyone else is tired”

LOL

[Radix]

"Buckley replied: "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto Nazi, or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered." "

Gosh, I almost forgot that it was Wednesday already.

Ann Coulter rocks.

I simply gotta renew my subscription to National Review tomorrow, even if she don't post there no more.

Thanks for posting this article.

[SkyPilot]

I just want to interrupt this thread with the news that John Mcain says that he, also, is a true Conservative.

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"I am proud to be a conservative."

John McCain, CPAC Conference
7 Feb 08

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Uh huh.

[Toaster tank]

I have similar memories of this greatest of conservatives.

You can download most of his writings here:

http://cumulus.hillsdale.edu:8080/buckley/Standard/search/field.html

[mware]

Here is a little known fact about WFB, he was a member of the honor guard during the funeral of FDR.

[PrincessB]

The Liberty Lobby???!!!

I am going to have to look up that.

[Judith Anne]

Too bad there’s no “Firing Line” for Ann Coulter, she’s the only one who could really write this wonderful eulogy to WFB.

[NeoCaveman]

That is a keeper.

Thanks

[alarm rider]

My father gave me “God and Man At Yale”. I was too young and stupid at the time to really understand the brilliant light that was Mr. Buckley. He was a true intellect and a Renaissance man, he was a great American. We are all the more fortunate for his living, and most deprived by his passing. Rest in peace Mr. Buckley. Peace attend thee.

[FMBass]

Thanks for the link.

[TASMANIANRED]

RIP Mr. Buckley.

The would would be a lesser place if you had not been.