“Christopher Buckley has clearly inherited his late, great father’s razor-sharp wit...”
Oh, really? How sharp was he in voting for the great zero? I’d say that he’s about as sharp as a bowling ball.
Little late for Chuck. Everyone is jumping off the bandwagon.
Christopher Buckley and others picked their side and we don’t want them back.
When Buckley endorsed Obama I had to rethink my entire opinion of his intellect and writing brilliance. I concluded he was like a poodle. Too inbred to be admired.
They’ll easily be fooled again.
Far be it for me to defend the man, but he was FAR from the only 2008 voter who suffered from THAT mistaken impression.
Where's your messiah now, Christopher?
Chris Buckley and Ron Reagan: woo-hoo..!!!
Rotten apples from amazing trees...
That's funny because libs often chide those on our side "you're too smart to be conservative." (Think Tom Wolfe's description of an early '80s dinner party experience he had.)
The two cancel each other out. I've long believed intelligence doesn't enter into it, nor should it. I would place a higher price on humility in our public servants. Madame Guillotine would be effective in introducing it tout suite.
Chris Buckley has coasted a long way on his father’s reputation.
Chris should go back to sleep. We don’t need him and those like him which think they are so smart regardless of the level of stupidity they display through their actions. At least many out there have an excuse. They work, they were angry at Bush, and they didn’t care. It is those like Mr. Buckley that are particularly disgusting because they voted for Obama largely out of snottiness and intellectual elitism.
We will probably see more come to this understanding but it won’t be because they believe in the liberties and traditions that made this country great but instead because they found themselves on the wrong side of history. These snotty kids who believe they are inherently superior not by virtue of their intellect but by virtue the number of liberals they associate with. They are the ones like Mike Murphy and Steve Schmidt who suggest that if only we were more open to gay marriage, abortion, and big government that all of the problems with the GOP would disappear. We don’t need them no more than we need Meghan and Cindy McCain providing her simpleton input on the definition of hate.
These people betrayed their nation for the satisfaction of their egos not their intellect. I have far more respect for those who stayed at home than these prodigal sons who never truly were with us to begin with who now seek to associate with the likes of Palin supporters because their Messiah didn’t work out so well.
Christopher Buckley has lost me.
I was so very disappointed in him.
I'd say that he probably inherited, um, half of it...
Anybody who sees the error of his ways, admits it publically, repents and changes, is OK with me.
The kid is a dip sh*#!
Christopher Buckley is a fool. Like the rest of the fairies inhabiting the elitist salons of NY and DC, he couldn’t call Obama for what he was, because that would have ruined his cocktail parties.
Another overeducated east coast fool........
I don’t care about his opinion (sorry bill, RIP)
On the one hand, it is fundamentally unfair that those of us who voted against Obama have to suffer just as much as those who voted for him.
On the other hand, are people in this thread seriously suggesting that we should permanently shun 53% of the US voting public?
The best thing we as individuals can do, if someone apologizes to us for voting for Obama, is to welcome them back into the fold. Yes they were stupid. All of us do stupid things from time to time. Depending on their other political views, you might very diplomatically suggest that the same people who misled them about Obama might also have misled them about Palin, or conservatives in general.
Getting people to no longer reflexively believe everything CNN tells them about polics is a much more significant victory than getting them to admit Obama is not the second coming of Abraham Lincoln — but this will be accomplished by positive support, not by bashing their apology. And of course the best victory of all is to get people to *think*.
It was obvious to anyone with a brain what Obama was.
And then on top of that he slandered Palin at every opportunity.
Let Buckley continue to choke on his choices. He's not welcome back.