Buckley resigns from National Review [endorses Obama]

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

[Bubba_Leroy]

Is this the same Christopher Buckley whose mistress is suing him for child support for the child he sired in an adulterous affair? Is this the same Christopher Buckley who has publicly bragged about getting stoned in his father’s house?

[silverleaf]

Buckley thinks that because of the books he “wrote”, Obama is a great intellect.

Like himself.

bwaahahaha

[skeeter]

“Obama has in him … the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader,” Buckley wrote in the endorsement. “He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.”

I don't know if its fair to call Chris a Benedict Arnold, or Judas.

The '*sshole' epithet might be fitting enough, but what is beyond dispute is he's a man in desperate need of some critical thinking skills.

That is, if he really believes what he said & isn't just saying it to boost his profile.

[Logical me]

taxes? only the little people pay those.

Right on. All taxes are paid by consumers as embedded or sales. Most of all business and corporation add all tax on the products or services. There is no other way to do business. That is why most most rich pay no taxes. Oh, they fill out income tax forms, but ALL taxes are embedded in the product or service.

[farmer18th]

“That was one of the things that made WFB so damn interesting. He took unpredictable points of view.”

Unpredictable, maybe. Assinine, never.

[Mojave]

I don't know if its fair to call Chris a Benedict Arnold

It would be unfair to Benedict Arnold, who was at least an accomplished general before he went turncoat.

[Albion Wilde]

I'm relieved that his logorrheic, navel-gazing back page essays about loons on the nearby pond will no longer be wasting valuable real estate in the National Review. He's a poorly played Shakespearean tragedy in his love/hate attempts to imitate, but never emulate, his father's still-unparalleled wit and articulation. Good riddance.

[Major Matt Mason]

If moderates like Buckley and Parker want to leave the GOP (they are not conservatives), I'm all for it. It would hurt the party in the short-term. But in the long run, the GOP might actually be able to produce a coherant, American vision that will attact some of the more like-minded independents or disenfranchised Democrats to make up for the loss of the moderates. Right now, the moderates stand in the way of any real change in Washington. The only change, such as it is, is more left-leaning policies and ever bigger government. Moderates don't seem to have a problem with this, so they are mostly closet Democrats. They may as well switch parties and make it official.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Ronald Prescott Reagan never was a Ronald Wilson Reagan, Jr.

[Albion Wilde]

"Christopher Buckley was shooed from the great magazine his father invented. " —Noonan

Your point, Peggy? Benjamin Franklin's son spent time in jail for being a loyalist counterrevolutionary, and father and son never spoke again.

[blasater1960]

WFB would never support a socialist...particularly one who is actively undermining the Republic. A black conservative president...sure, why not....

[Abathar]

He is just bitter because he got his dad’s shoes out and they make him look like he has clown feet.

[april15Bendovr]

I talked to a friend of his from college

He stated that Chris was Apolitical and showed no interest at all in politics until his father encouraged him to work for a campaign.

He also stated that Chris has a tendency of hanging out and being chummy with Washington DC insiders and wouldn't be surprised if he showed more loyalty to them than his own party.

[Psalm 73]

Glad to see him off the back page of NR - he was much too enamored of his own (mediocre) writing skills.

I miss Steyn, I miss Flo-King, too - but Steyn was always the first thing I turned to when the new issue showed up.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Nah, that comparison is specious.

Buckley making that comparison insults Judas Iscariot.

Benedict Arnold is a far better comparison.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree Matt. If we had weeded our vinyard, we wouldn’t be in this mess this year.

If we had lofted a person like Palin with the experience required, they would have beaten Obama 65/35 this election.

The Republican leadership should take a good look at who is drawing the most attention this year. It sure isn’t McCain, Obama, or Biden.

The public wants desperately to have a leader with Palin’s values.

Get rid of the riff raff. If they are forever joining the Democrats to pass legislation, give them the boot. Let them join the Democrat party for real.

[Cecily]

“He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.”

This kind of attitude usually helps demagogues and dictators rise to power. Good thinking, Chris (not).

[taildragger]

Must be an acid flashback from his youth...

Watch the most recent interview....

[XR7]

Chris Buckley is Ron Reagan Jr without the leotard

Maybe he only wears his in the closet?
Hmmmmmmm?

[y6162]

“In a post on National Review’s Web site Tuesday afternoon, editor Rich Lowry denied Buckley’s claim that his column had sparked such a massive reaction.”

National Review is overstocked with Brits, Canadians, boring technicians and dingbat women. They’ll be happy losers and bask in their elitism under Obamachev.

NR needs a serious purge of deadwood that has piled up under the reign of Lowry and Goldberg. An Coulter was right when she called them girlie men and now look at how low NR has fallen.