Christopher Buckley Resigns From National Review - The Hate Continues
October 15th, 2008
We are witnessing a implosion of a a modern day, Bush/McCain/Rove Republican Party. With William Kristol feuding with a McCain campaign, & Kathleen Parker receiving death threats for truthfully stating that Sarah Palin was in over her head, we now find William F. Buckley’s son Christopher is a latest victim of GOP rage. Bloodied & brutalized for endorsing Barack Obama, Buckley has come to a realization that today’s GOP has been rejected by America & that it barely resembles a party he has always known. From a New York Times:
Christopher Buckley, a author & son of a late conservative mainstay William F. Buckley, said in a telephone interview that he has resigned from a National Review, a political journal his faar founded in 1955.
Mr. Buckley said he had “been effectively fatwahed by a conservative movement” after endorsing Barack Obama in a blog posting on aDailyBeast.com; since an, he said he has been blanketed with hate mail at a blog & at a National Review, where he has written a column.
Mr. Buckley said he did not underst& a sense of betrayal that some of his conservative colleagues felt, but said that a fury & ugly comments his endorsement generated is “part of a calcification of modern discourse. It’s so angry.” Quoting Ronald Reagan, he added, “I haven’t left a Republican Party. It left me.” Read on…
Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back
