Oct 10
Could someone tell me just what is so darned special about the Buckleys? Frankly I never really got what was the big deal about William F. — I could never get through any of his articles in National Review, I always found them over-ornate, meandering, and pompous (what I could read before I went into a boredom coma). And his son, Christopher, strikes me as being an almost perfect example of insubstantiality in human form. Here is his opinion, in the usual Buckleyesque cascade of verbiage, of Sarah Palin. Apparently she is just too, too, too common, though not too common for way too many words.
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October 11th, 2008 at 7:16 am
The difference I see between pere and fils is that, however baroque, William F. could make an argument (tastes differ – I rather enjoyed the intricate nature of his prosody).
The Magnificent Ambersons comes to mind.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Chris’ main value these days seems to be to give the cachet of a Buckley endorsement to as profoundly unconservative a major-party presidential nominee as has come down the pike since William Jennings Bryan.