Libertarian my aching ass...
A week after endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, Christopher Buckley, a writer and son of William F. Buckley Jr., is leaving National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father more than 50 years ago.
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Buckley, a best-selling novelist who had been a featured columnist at the National Review, infuriated conservatives last week by declaring himself "the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon."
He criticized Republican John McCain as "irascible and snarly" and credited Obama with having "a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect."
Sorry, but no. If you call yourself conservative and endorse a Chicago statist hack like Barack Obama, ostensibly because of his "first-class intellect," then you're not a conservative/libertarian/whatever, you're just an elitist asshole. An incredibly naive and/or stupid elitist asshole at that. Just like, say, this guy. God knows I have enough trouble with John McCain, and I don't recall actually endorsing him in this space, but I think his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was a heartening nod to the conservative/libertarian base of the Republican Party. And I think that getting folks like Tamara to actually think about voting for McCain, well, that says a whole lot. Really, though, "irascible and snarly"? What the fuck kind of snotty, coastal-elitist horseshit is that? And wouldn't those pejoratives fit Joe Biden at least as well?
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