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William F. Buckley Jr died...

post #1 of 14
2/27/08 at 2:30pm
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The father of the modern Conservative movement died today at his home in CT.

(A side note: it's kinda funny how most of these blue-blood Conservative types tend to shy away from Red States. Ann Coulter lives in New York, from what I understand.)

This is the guy who wanted to "stand astride history yelling: 'Stop!'." Which is a pretty stupid idea, unless you come from a wealthy family. But, to his credit, in his last few years, he repudiated some of the aspects of modern conservativism, like Bush's foreign policy.

Anyway, condolences to his family and friends.
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post #2 of 14
2/27/08 at 4:49pm
What's going to be aggravating is listening to all the wingnuts who called Buckley a "coward" and "an old man" after this column on our failure in Iraq fall all over themselves about how great he was and how they'll be carrying on his fight.
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post #3 of 14
2/27/08 at 5:52pm
I'll always remember Buckley for being one of those Skull and Bones members (the increasingly less secret Yale fraternity of George W. Bush and John Kerry, amongst others) who actually picketed and left the organization when they decided to allow female entrants.
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post #4 of 14
2/27/08 at 7:46pm
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Originally Posted by William F. Buckley, Jr.
"But whatever the exact net result in the restricted field of school desegregation, what a price we are paying for Brown! It would be ridiculous to hold the Supreme Court solely to blame for the ludicrously named 'civil rights movement' – that is, the Negro revolt . . . . But the Court carries its share of the blame. Its decrees, beginning with Brown, have on the one hand encouraged the least responsible of the Negro leaders in the course of extra-legal and illegal struggle that we now witness around us. . . .

"Brown, as National Review declared many years ago, was bad law and bad sociology. We are now tasting its bitter fruits. Race relations in the country are ten times worse than in 1954."
Wotta guy!
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post #5 of 14
2/27/08 at 7:52pm
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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post #6 of 14
2/27/08 at 7:53pm
I can't wait to see his gold-covered coffin encrusted with the finest jewels.
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post #7 of 14
2/27/08 at 8:05pm
A lot of folks think Brown is a poorly reasoned decision ... but that's just a strange quote from Buckley altogether.
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post #8 of 14
2/27/08 at 8:10pm
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Originally Posted by William F. Buckley, Jr.
"The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.

"National Review believes that the South's premises are correct. . . . It is more important for the community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.
Please don't try to make excuses for him.
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post #9 of 14
2/27/08 at 8:12pm
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Originally Posted by The Prankster View Post
Please don't try to make excuses for him.
I was going to say the exact same thing as Overlord, but in the context of what Buckley is saying, it's like pointing out that a few buildings in Hiroshima were probably due to be demolished.
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post #10 of 14
2/27/08 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by The LD View Post
I was going to say the exact same thing as Overlord, but in the context of what Buckley is saying, it's like pointing out that a few buildings in Hiroshima were probably due to be demolished.
But they were!

**subject now dropped
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post #11 of 14
2/27/08 at 9:31pm
1 pro-crypto Nazi down about a dozen more to go.
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post #12 of 14
2/28/08 at 12:00am
"Negro revolt"?
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post #13 of 14
2/28/08 at 12:09am
It's good that all the people who were against the civil right movement are dying. It makes the world a better place.
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post #14 of 14
2/28/08 at 8:53am
R.I.P. Assface.
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