Odes to William F. Buckley …

6 Responses to “Odes to William F. Buckley …”

1. Don Quijote says:

   February 27, 2008 at 9:03 pm

   The world is a slightly better place and Hell is probably a tad warmer.
2. Don Quijote says:

   February 27, 2008 at 9:10 pm

   Making Light

   “The central question that emerges…is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.”
   —William F. Buckley, National Review, August 24, 1957
3. Don Quijote says:

   February 27, 2008 at 9:31 pm

   “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I will sock you in your goddamn face, and you will stay plastered.”
4. Half_Past_Midnight says:

   February 28, 2008 at 1:40 am

   “I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
5. Rudi says:

   February 28, 2008 at 3:36 am

   Former news magnate Conrad Black writes in Canada’s National Post that before Buckley, ‘American conservatism was a detritus of paleo-isolationists and xenophobes.’

   Seems the conservatives are revisiting their past. At least Buckley up up a pleasant facade on his version of conservatism. I enjoyed the old “Firing Line”. Now todays talk radio is another story(Cunningham – Ohio).
6. cosmoetica says:

   February 28, 2008 at 9:12 am

   Don: the thing about Buckley is that he admitted that he was wrong about many of his earlier stances.

   If George Wallace can be forgiven by many of the blacks in his state then Buckley can be forgiven for his silliest remarks.