Son of Buckley is, in fact, also a Buckley. Christopher, to be exact, and pretty much as conservative as his dad.
"It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance," Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The Daily Beast Friday.
They'd cut off more than your allowance, you traitor!!!!
"Obama has in him ... 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," Buckley wrote.
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If Martin Cothran is to be believed (and naturally he isn't):
The paleocons, almost as a matter of definition, opposed the war [in Iraq], and opposed it harshly.
They used to say that "The problem with Democrats is that the eat their own young."
Not any more.
Wow!
Wikipedia on him begins:
Christopher Taylor Buckley (born 1952) is an American political satirist and the author of several novels. He is the son of William F. Buckley Jr. and Patricia Buckley. His novels include God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, and, most recently, Supreme Courtship.
Anyone seen the weather report for Hell today? I understand they're in for a dose of winter. And the rest of us are going to have to watch for pigshit falling from the sky.