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Buckley’s apostasy - Pick your poison
Roger L. Simon —
... my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity. The GOP likes to say it’s a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me.
… I have to say - to each his yurt. The Democratic Party that put Joe Lieberman in the dumper for being a Scoop Jackson liberal is about as small a tent as you can imagine. In other words, pick your poison.
UPDATE: Rich Lowry responds to Chris Buckley here.
Christopher Buckley quits National Review over Obama endorsement
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... because she simply can’t bear to pull the lever for an amnesty shill — which is what he is, I hasten to remind you — are our readers going to desert us, too? Define the terms of the litmus test, please. Update: Here’s Lowry’s reply at the Corner. Steyn will be back on the back page in the next issue, so there’s a silver lining.
Fatwahed By The Right
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... movement” after endorsing Barack Obama in a blog posting on TheDailyBeast.com; since then, he said he has been blanketed with hate mail at the blog and at the National Review, where he has written a column.
As a result, he wrote to Richard Lowry, the editor of the National
Review, and its publisher, Jack Fowler, offering to resign, and “this
offer was rather briskly accepted,” Mr. Buckley said.
Lowry gives his take here. (Hat tip: Schwenkler) ...
What was Buckley thinking?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... pushback was ridiculous, but expecting Obama to suddenly turn on all of the political allies who got him to the nation’s highest office in a revelation of moderation is like expecting Santa Claus to suddenly appear. On Halloween. And for what? An opportunity to still be more liberal than John McCain? I take Allahpundit’s point on intellectual freedom and his disapproval of NR’s acceptance of Buckley’s resignation, but I think they did the right thing. (I also find it telling that Buckley misrepresented the circumstances of that decision.) National Review has a specific ...
NR vs ... Buckley?
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... as tongue-in-cheek since, in fact, Buckley resigned. But the picture he paints of what happened, not so much with NR as with his conservative audience, isn't flattering and he ends with Reagan's line: "I havenât left the Republican Party. It left me." He even goes so far as to say: "I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me." NR Editor Rich Lowry responds at the Corner : Chris is up with a post at The Daily Beast, "Sorry, Dad, I Was Fired." Iâd like to ...
Christopher Buckley Leaves National Review After Firestorm Over Obama Endorsement
The Moderate Voice —
... by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.
So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.
Thanks, anyway, for the memories, and here’s to happier days and with any luck, a bit less fresh hell.
Does the GOP want a big tent? Or a pup tent?
UPDATE: Lowrey has responded:
I’d like to clarify this “firing” business. Over the weekend, ...
Remainders: Three weeks
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
Bob Barr campaigns in Virginia.
Mark Penn says change is coming.
McCain's Wall Street donors resent the populism.
Christopher Buckley breaks with National Review.
Lowry clarifies.
Ben sketches the outline of the voting rights debate that will clog the airwaves for the next few weeks.
Jill Biden gets the Vogue treatment.
All the pandering has made Chadwick Matlin dizzy.
Terry Eastland worries about Obama's judicial appointments.
Science funding ...
The Christopher Buckley drama
Sister Toldjah —
... As you can see from the link in the above post, Buckley’s post was originally titled “Sorry Dad, I was fired” (it’s now been changed to “Buckley Bows Out of National Review”) which led many people - mostly on the left) to automatically believe he was kicked out of the Conservative Club for not toeing the “conservative line.” As NR editor Rich Lowry clarifies here, though, Buckley did inded hand in his resignation - and the “hate mail” he rec’d at his National Review email address ...
Waaaaaaaah
Alarming News —
Waaaaaaaah Is Christopher Buckley serious ? He endorses Obama for the most nonsensical reasons, then offers his resignation to National Review, and now is crying that the magazine his dad founded doesn't like him anymore? Posted by Karol at October 15, 2008 02:15 PM | ...
Obama's October Hat Trick Surprise
Gates of Vienna —
... Buckley claims he was “fired” but the editors at National Review have his chirpy, let’s-be-friends resignation email to counter this claim. It will be interesting to see how he manages to ally himself with a socialist Democrat and still retain any fidelity to his family’s heritage. It is true his father didn’t like George Bush’s policies in Iraq, but that never would have converted William Buckley into a supporter of the kind of politician that he founded his magazine to fight. ...
