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"This campaign has changed John McCain," Buckley wrote. "It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget 'by the end of my first term.' Who, really, believes that?
"Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis," Buckley added. "His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"
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This does surprise me a bit. Some idiot had a copy of his magazine and would leave it at my old gym. I got some good laughs out of it's gun-toting, homophobic, xenophobic, racist conservative rhetoric.
I'm glad to see that some on the other side actually have some common sense and good these days.
Yeh, I read that. Already, some Conservatives are dismissing Buckley as 'crazy.'
But, it seems he's the only one on them with some sense.
Clearly there is a difference between an intellectual conservative and a "conservative" Republican.
In any case, most Republicans don't even know the meaning of the word conservative (or liberal for that matter).
@Kevin
I agree. When I say 'conservative' I'm addressing the current neo-con movement. Fiscally, conservatives no longer exist except for the likes of Ron Paul and other libertarians.
I think it's so funny how conservatives have demonized the word "liberal". LOL...a lot of people don't even know the fundamental meaning of the word is freedom like 'liberation' or 'liberty'.
we need to get back to basics.
I think you're going to see more of this happening as the election nears (i.e. Florida's govenor, etc.) Conservatives don't want to align themselves with McCain, afraid of what it might do for their own campaign. Kevin and I were discussing how the election is going to effect the seats in Congress. This only begs the question: What will happen should the Democrats argue too much with the other side and not exercise their power while they have it?
I think it's amusing the reason Buckley gave for not printing his endorsement in the National Review. He essentially insulted the conservative reader-base with this endorsement.
I'm confident that the democrats will have a filibuster proof senate. What is that? 60 seats?
Yes. Cloture is 60 votes.
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