Comments on: Two Years After His Death, Buckley’s Message Lives On

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By: Abe Blunt

Abe Blunt — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:20:33 +0000

Good deal. I like music a lot. It really irritates me when folks say things like since she’s 40 she shouldnt make music anymore. Thats nonsense. Carry it J.Lo!

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:44:33 +0000

Who were the real conservatives he screwed over?

By: ben w.

ben w. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:23:03 +0000

the liberals miss Buckley because he was your perfect caricature of an aristocratic New England asshole who couldn't stand real conservatives, and went out of his way to screw over real conservatives.

let's look at Buckley's "legacy" of National Review and take note at what a shell of a publication it once was– by purging writers and editors, and by refusing to tackle anything of substance or controversial, you end up with the best 'conservative thinkers' at NR being Kathryn Lopez. Instead of actual thought you end up with the sophomoric rants of Jonah Goldberg. William Buckley must be assessed against the train wreck of a publication he bequeathed, and anyone who chooses Rich Lowry as the man to succeed you, well it says something pretty powerfully negative about Buckley.

William Buckley is a media whore who backstabbed his way into 'leading' the conservative movement, and when he died, it was in worse shape than when he started. Color me unappreciative.

By: FordPrefect1969

FordPrefect1969 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:29:25 +0000

Conservatives have no trouble explaining why McNamara's approach in Vietnam was a disaster. You can't fight a "Progressive" war without paying for it in wasted American life. Yet Buckley's approach to the fight with our domestic fascists is strategically analogous to McNamara's restraints on American air power in Vietnam, and with the exact same results– yet conservatives don't learn. Are we sure we're smarter than they are?

Buckley was clearly a good man. And very civil. The left misses that civility because an unwilingness to become incivil means they always win. Fact.

By: Hoyosmokin

Hoyosmokin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:07:03 +0000

I think that the great "unwashed mass's" are smarter than the Paul Krugman Ivy League elite type's give them credit. I posted on one of Krugmans pieces in the NYT's the other day that he should be made to grow his own food and butcher his own meat, my comment did not get posted……..

By: Hoyosmokin

Hoyosmokin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:56:58 +0000

It's a generational thing…..I was 19 when Buckley was spreading the word in 1969, had other things on my plate, girls, cars, and hoping I wasn't going to die in a rice paddy in some god forsaken place I never heard of, was thinking I wanted to live more than 19yrs. This Country has been through a lot tougher times than these. When my grandson asked me on 9-11 if this is the worst thing that I had ever seen happen in our country I said that it was and that I hoped that it would be the worst he and his sisters would also ever see . I think that the "silent majority" is gradually waking up again…. this too will pass.

By: When Falls the Coliseum » Two years after his death, William F. Buckley’s message lives on

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:02:49 +0000

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By: @OhioMan

@OhioMan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:22:40 +0000

There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss Bill Buckley.

By: Tari

Tari — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:46:12 +0000

If Buckley resorted to mostlly "ad hominem entertainment," you shouldn't have any problem offering at least a single example. Hmmm?