Buckley leaves conservative national review

[onevolfan]

Interesting.

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[volinbham]

Interesting but I disagree with his reasoning:

"While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for," Buckley wrote.

"Eight years of 'conservative' government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case," he also wrote.

Bush was not conservative. Therefore, this statement I do believe is accurate:

"The conservative movement didn’t leave him, he left it.

Of the 2 choices, McCain is much closer to "conservative values" that Buckley claims to embrace. To choice Obama, he is ignoring those principles and favoring some other principles.

 

[BigPapaVol]

For anyone to pretend that this Buckley is remotely the conservative icon that his father was is silly. His father's role has fallen to George Will, who is now the brightest of the conservative commentators.

 

[MG1968]

For anyone to pretend that this Buckley is remotely the conservative icon that his father was is silly. His father's role has fallen to George Will, who is now the brightest of the conservative commentators.

Mark Steyn is a damn bright fellow as well.

 

[notverycrucial]

George Will doesn't hold a candle to Sarah Palin.

 

[WA_Vol]

Finally someone in the media on the right who gets it :clapping: