Today we lost a soldier. William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of The National Review, died this morning. He was colossally important in bringing modern conservative ideas into the mainstream. Even in his old age, Buckley continued to impact conservative thought.My hope is that the conservatives across America can look at this sad event as a reminder of what the Republican party used to be.
Buckley feared Obamaesque Statism as much as anyone. In 2004, conservatives rallied around the loss of Ronald Reagan, "Let's win one for the Gipper!" But before Reagan, and even before Goldwater was William F. Buckley. In 2008, let's win one for Bill Buckley.
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when I saw that he died I wonder how long it would take till a post showed up on the almond gallery
how can he rest in hell
http://www.slate.com/id/2185301/
I think this is a pretty good look at Buckley. Because I know you and your laziness Charlie, I'll just paste my favorite part.
From a 1957 National Review editorial by Buckley about the building civil rights movement led by MLK:
The central question that emerges—and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal—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 predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. …
National Review believes that the South's premises are correct. If the majority wills what is socially atavistic, then to thwart the majority may be, though undemocratic, enlightened. It is more important for any community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority. Sometimes it becomes impossible to assert the will of a minority, in which case it must give way; and the society will regress; sometimes the numerical minority cannot prevail except by violence: then it must determine whether the prevalence of its will is worth the terrible price of violence.
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