[Syncro]

The rest is at AnnCoulter.com

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Rest in peace, Conservative Warrier. God bless you.

[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!!!!!

[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.

[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.

________________________________________________________________________

"I am proud to be a conservative."

John McCain, CPAC Conference
7 Feb 08

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Uh huh.

[PrincessB]

The Liberty Lobby???!!!

I am going to have to look up that.

[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.

[TASMANIANRED]

RIP Mr. Buckley.

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

[Uri’el-2012]

[LucyJo]

"William F. Buckley was the original enfant terrible."

Thank goodness we have Ann Coulter, et al, to carry on the tradition!

[blake6900]

When asked if he had "referred to Jesse Jackson as an ignoramus," Buckley said, "If I didn't, I should have."

Yep...our side had William F. Buckley and their side had pathetic, self-absorbed, little pukes who thought, because they could string a series of multi-syllabic words together to form a sentence, were just so much smarter than the rest of us.

Norman Mailer died and nobody even farted. And that's as it should be.

[William Terrell]

LOL. Even the critics of Buckley's writings were compelled to use creative and intelligent terms. He inspited even the liberals to greatness.

[texson66]

I recall meeting Mr Buckley in 1963 while attending an ethics course at the University of Texas. He was sharp, witty, and highly entertaining. How and why he was invited to UT, the rotten heart of liberalism in Texas, I will never know. But I knew that I couldn’t be a “yellow dog” democrat like my Dad after I heard him speak.

Thanks Mr Buckley for all your contributions to enlighten the masses on the principles of conservatism! RIP

[kellynla]

R.I.P. Mr. Buckley

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[the808bass]

My mother bought me a subscription to NR as I shipped off to the mental wasteland of public university in the Liberal Arts (emphasis on “liberal”) department. It was a lifeline. I would always jump straightway to the letters to WFB and would guffaw aloud as I read his always perfectly poignant responses.

RIP, WFB. Godspeed.

[Arkady]

God bless William F. Buckley. Ann when you read this, you can write my eulogy too!

[upsdriver]

Thank you, Ann! A nice tribute to a truly great man!

[goldstategop]

Before William F. - there was no intellectual strand of thought that could be called "conservative" in America. The dominant mode of thought was liberal. This owed to the unique circumstance of America's creation and subsequent growth on a continent with no limits in which it always deemed possible to get more. Still, the fundamental idea behind the concept America was a nation that happened to have a government separated it from traditional European thought of the state as the head of people. In America, all authority derived from the people and moreover what government could do was of a limited nature. The American idea of happiness was in looking to oneself for the fulfillment of happiness rather waiting for the state to help you to fulfill it. From these three ideas, emerged a different kind of conservatism - that which while it was patriotic and believed in the sovereign nature of the individual, also believed in the universal promise of American values and in the Messianic optimism that America's best days where still ahead of her. That conservatism led William F. Buckley to define a philosophy that challenged the dominant intellectual tradition of liberalism in this country and helped to remake America into a fundamentally different kind of nation than in Europe and the rest of the world. That, in National Review may well be Buckley's greatest and most enduring legacy. We will never look upon his like again.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Army Air Corps]

William F. Buckley, Jr., may you rest in peace and amuse the saints with your wit and candor.

I, good sir, owe much to your humour and perspicacity.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Conservatism is an intellectual enterprise.

..WFB Jr. RIP