Kathleen Parker On Chris Buckley, National Review: "(Republicans) Do Not ... Deserve To Win This Time, And Someone Had To Remind Them Why.&am
Category: Stars Tags: Christopher Buckley, National Review, Obama
NAC has been following this story since Christopher Buckley's on-line Obama endorsement first broke.
William F. Buckley was articulate and intelligent, whereas contemporary conservatism boasts a crass anti-intellectualism that lately has become viral.
Surveying the scurrilous faith-based wreckage of the conservative movement, which today embraces the "we the people don't need no education" line of non-thought and would correspondingly not hesitate to ostracize Buckley elder in the same way that it has impugned the younger, as well as previously savaging Kathleen Parker for her apostasy in denouncing Sarah Palin, LEO’s Stephen George said it best earlier this week:
Let’s call this line of thinking the terrorism of the idiocracy. It did not start with John McCain or Sarah Palin — although they have found wild profit in it — and it surely will not end there. In actuality, it begins in the vacuum created by a general...Read Full Story
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