Comments on: William F. Buckley, Jr., RIP

By: Lyn

Lyn — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:22:33 +0000

Mr. Buckley was in a class by himself. I appreciate how he elevated and motivated conservatives. The thing I like most about him is that he was successful and proud and didn't apologize for being either.

By: floyd

floyd — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:19:05 +0000

""Wonkette nailed it with this headline: Elegant, Witty Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. Dies, Leaving No Intellectual Heirs"" """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Virg; Sadly this is probably true, considering the "Children of the Corn" mentality of current academia, along with it's obsequious cousin, the media. No "Intellectual Heir" would be allowed to come to term in the adulterated womb of a modern university.

By: floyd

floyd — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:01:13 +0000

psmarc93;
To err is human , but you have raised it to an art form. You are truly peerless, congratulations!

By: Bandit

Bandit — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:49:05 +0000

Like the sun rising in the East count on the losers of the left using the death of an ideological rival to spew their customary hate.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:21:00 +0000

"and assumption that I was an old money Catholic who spoke Latin fluently" -- Funny, I always took that assumption as one that I was a moderately well educated adult.

Unless you are of a certain age or went to old line Catholic school, it's quite unlikely that you speak Latin even if you're a Harvard PhD. It's a dead language and the need to learn it is rather dubious; indeed, even most Catholic schools don't bother teaching it now that mass is in English.

By: psmarc93

psmarc93 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:13:04 +0000

Buckley is the paragon example of all that Conservatism hoped to be and the mark of how fantastically far it has failed to meet his standards. Beginning with Reagan, Conservatives reduced their weapons from argumentation and debate to the troglodyte tools of ad hominem and smear -- that Buckley was the first to condemn this de-evolution does not exonerate him for not seeing that the fault lies within the corrupt soul of Conservativism itself -- the souless credo of "I've got mine, screw you," and "Might makes right."

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:44:07 +0000

"and assumption that I was an old money Catholic who spoke Latin fluently" -- Funny, I always took that assumption as one that I was a moderately well educated adult.

By: Virg

Virg — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:31:59 +0000

Wonkette nailed it with this headline: Elegant, Witty Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. Dies, Leaving No Intellectual Heirs

By: Jules Crittenden » William F. Buckley

Jules Crittenden » William F. Buckley — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:24:25 +0000

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By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:12:50 +0000

Buckley was always worth reading, both his political writings and the Blackford Oakes books. He also had an appealing zest for life. He will be missed...

By: Derrick

Derrick — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:37:46 +0000

While I probably disagreed with probably 80% of his work, as I've become more familiar with his work, I've definitely come to respect WFB's considerable and extraordinary contribution to society. Watching old scenes of him debating others in such a honorable and intellectually honest way is extremely refreshing compared to the discourse of the day. It's too bad that he's seen his ideology and practice so distorted by his ideological progeny over the last years. R.I.P.

By: bill t

bill t — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:22:34 +0000

Mr Buckley ALWAYS raised the level of discourse whether you agreed with him or he with you. His passing is a metaphor for the loss of civil discourse and intellectual discipline of the various subsets of our media.

By: StephenBainbridge.com

StephenBainbridge.com — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:01:09 +0000

William F Buckley: RIP...

From the Corner: William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut. He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the...

By: floyd

floyd — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:11:25 +0000

Lost, but never forgotten!
Mr. Buckley was a man of little fear and great clarity.
He said what he said.
It made a difference.
Ultimately, he had a right to be satisfied with his contribution.

By: Farewell, Bill « Like Cooking a Small Fish

Farewell, Bill « Like Cooking a Small Fish — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:04:31 +0000

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