"Mr. Buckley’s greatest achievement was making conservatism — not just electoral Republicanism, but conservatism as a system of ideas — respectable in liberal post-World War II America."
The most insane of the three things that are insane about this statement is not the claim that such and such is now respectable and not the claim effecting its respectability is a great thing, but that it was this one dude who effected it. WTF!?
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"Mr. Buckley’s greatest achievement was making conservatism — not just electoral Republicanism, but conservatism as a system of ideas — respectable in liberal post-World War II America."
The most insane of the three things that are insane about this statement is not the claim that such and such is now respectable and not the claim effecting its respectability is a great thing, but that it was this one dude who effected it. WTF!?
Completely off=topic, but submitted for you peruasal: pirates were democrats!
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080222_pirates
Although, in defense of the topicality pirates, Dustin Hoffman claimed to model his Captain Hook on WFB.
Agreed. WTF? I wonder whether the obits will discuss his practice of sailing his boat into international waters so that he could get high.
Interesting bit about pirates. I always took them to be libertarians!
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