who did jeff buckley endorse

This is crazy. It's also crazy that in my office full of "politicos" none of them knew who Chris Buckley was.

Yes but they are also "politicos who eat out of toilets", no?

This is crazy. It's also crazy that in my office full of "politicos" none of them knew who Chris Buckley was.

i'm so glad i don't work with the people in your office

Cos I am sure the geniuses you work with know exactly who he is, and "take" The National Review each week?

too soon

but I don't really get how a self declared small government, fiscal conservative republican would vote for Obama. Yeah, don't vote for McCain but why Obama?

"Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy 'We are the people we have been waiting for' silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for,"

Totally agree with you here. I don't personally know many republicans who are choosing Obama over McCain but the "either/or" or "lesser of two evils" mindset is silly if it means voting for someone you don't agree with just to not vote for the other guy.

I actually agree with what Buckley says here:




...but as a fiscal conservative I can't vote for Obama, even though I like his persona, etc. I can't vote for McCain either, so it's either don't vote in the presidential race or choose a third party candidate.

Yeah, don't vote for McCain but why Obama? Republicans have been acting like socialists enough without having to try to interpret what conservatives voting for Obama means.

Andrew J. Bacevich's pro-Obama piece, published in March in The American Conservative, is the "seminal Obamacon manifesto."

In that piece, Bacevich argues that conservative revival depends on a US withdrawal from Iraq, which Obama supports -- and Republican John McCain vehemently opposes.

"Barack Obama is no conservative," Bacevich starts his article. "Yet if he wins the Democratic nomination, come November principled conservatives may well find themselves voting for the senator from Illinois. Given the alternatives -- and the state of the conservative movement -- they could do worse.

"The essential point is this: conservatives intent on voting in November for a candidate who shares their views might as well plan on spending Election Day at home," Bacevich continues. "The Republican Party of Bush, Cheney, and McCain no longer accommodates such a candidate.

"So why consider Obama? For one reason only: because this liberal Democrat has promised to end the U.S. combat role in Iraq. Contained within that promise, if fulfilled, lies some modest prospect of a conservative revival.

"For conservatives, Obama represents a sliver of hope. McCain represents none at all. The choice turns out to be an easy one," Bacevich concludes.

Cos I am sure the geniuses you work with know exactly who he is, and "take" The National Review each week?

"Why Other Countries Say Obama Is A Muslin"

More quotes from Buckley

"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?"

Absolutely nothing, nothing about the last 8 years has been "socialist." Republicans have been corrupt, fascist (Patriot act, torture and other violations of the constitution), Neo-liberal globalist market policies, tax breaks for the rich, profligate spending, inept governance, strict constructionist judges.... absolutley nothing about them have been socialist. This is sloppy thinking and partisan essentialism that is a core problem in American political discourse.... not worthy of you. The distribution of wealth in the country has moved rapidly to the rich and privileged since the early 80's, and that movement has exponentially increased in speed since 2000.

"When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

* Sinclair Lewis