Buckley Out At National Review

Christopher Buckley, son of right-wing icon William F. Buckley, has resigned his position at the National Review, a magazine that his father founded in 1955. Citing hate mail from wingnuts unhappy with his endorsement of Sen. Obama, Buckley said that a virtual "fatwah" had been issued against him by far right wingnuts. Paraphrasing St. Ronnie Raygun's comment about the Democratic Party, he said, "I haven't left the Republican Party, it left me." It now belongs to the "kill him" fringe of delusional nutbags. They can have it.

A Buckley For Obama

Christopher Buckley, libertarian son of conservative icon and founder of the National Review, William F. Buckley, has endorsed Sen. Obama for President. Saying that his father, "spent my life separating the Right from the kooks", it appears that the kooks are now in charge. He lambastes Palin as "an embarassment, and a dangerous one at that," and asks of McNasty, "what on earth could he have been thinking?" He says "this campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic," and that his "ninth inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless."

Good for him.