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« on: August 03, 2015, 11:21:32 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2015, 11:22:42 AM »

Massive FF
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2015, 11:41:24 AM »

Mixed, lean FF.
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« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2015, 11:42:00 AM »

Racist, Francoist scum.
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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2015, 11:43:53 AM »

Fascist POS
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« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2015, 01:16:42 PM »

I disagree with almost everything he has to say, but he says it in such a pleasing way...
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« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2015, 06:21:31 PM »

Would be a relative FF in today's American conservative movement, and that fact is terrifying. HP.
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« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2015, 08:20:34 AM »

Racist scumbag who wanted to stop civil rights and destroy the safety net.  HP, of course.

However, I like that he was pragmatic enough to oppose the John Birch Society and recognize the importance of supporting electable candidates.
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« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2015, 11:53:31 AM »

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« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2015, 10:04:33 PM »

Personally, Buckley was a mean-spirited and self-absorbed man. Politically, he was a blight on conservatism.

His attempted character assassination of Pat Buchanan and his vicious obituary of Murray Rothbard are particularly unforgivable.
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« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2015, 10:26:08 PM »

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« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2015, 11:00:26 PM »

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« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2015, 02:06:02 AM »

Lots of Franco lovers in this thread...
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« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2015, 06:25:50 AM »

Personally, Buckley was a mean-spirited and self-absorbed man. Politically, he was a blight on conservatism.

His attempted character assassination of Pat Buchanan and his vicious obituary of Murray Rothbard are particularly unforgivable.

Are you freaking kidding me?  His calling out Pat Buchanan for the racist anti-Semite spade that he really is was probably the one decent thing he did over his long career.

Otherwise, yeah easy HP is easy HP.
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« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2015, 08:56:10 AM »

Eh ... calling someone a queer who disagrees with you on national TV?  Have to go with HP for now, though I'll certainly be researching the references in Mechaman's post.
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« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2015, 10:10:29 AM »

Personally, Buckley was a mean-spirited and self-absorbed man. Politically, he was a blight on conservatism.

His attempted character assassination of Pat Buchanan and his vicious obituary of Murray Rothbard are particularly unforgivable.

Are you freaking kidding me?  His calling out Pat Buchanan for the racist anti-Semite spade that he really is was probably the one decent thing he did over his long career.

Otherwise, yeah easy HP is easy HP.

Came here to say that.  Well, that and disowning the Birchers, but kind of the same thing.

Otherwise, his coasting on a thesaurus and high-class accent as markers of intellectual gravitas, while threatening actual violence against Gore Vidal in response to being bested in the ring of ideas... revealing how that behavior gets held up as an exemplar of American conservatism, n'est-ce pas?
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« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2015, 10:17:04 AM »

Personally, Buckley was a mean-spirited and self-absorbed man. Politically, he was a blight on conservatism.

His attempted character assassination of Pat Buchanan and his vicious obituary of Murray Rothbard are particularly unforgivable.

Are you freaking kidding me?  His calling out Pat Buchanan for the racist anti-Semite spade that he really is was probably the one decent thing he did over his long career.

Otherwise, yeah easy HP is easy HP.

Came here to say that.  Well, that and disowning the Birchers, but kind of the same thing.

Otherwise, his coasting on a thesaurus and high-class accent as markers of intellectual gravitas, while threatening actual violence against Gore Vidal in response to being bested in the ring of ideas... revealing how that behavior gets held up as an exemplar of American conservatism, n'est-ces pas?

Gore Vidal was being an insufferable ahole at the time, in the way only he can be, when he wants to. Anyway, Buckley was terrible and insensitive on Civil Rights (he once said black African nations deserved independence when they stopped being cannibals), and thought property rights trumped the basic civil liberties of black Americans. But he was good about helping to exorcise Jew hating out of the American intellectual conservative lexicon.  But yes, he was intellectually lazy, although I did enjoy his vocabulary, and learned a lot of words from him, like eristic and sciolistic.

Buckley died a very unhappy and lonely man, and longed for death. I think he became disillusioned with his faith, and with the direction American conservatism was taking. He opposed Dubya's invasion of Iraq.
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« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2015, 06:19:00 AM »


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