A conservative to the bone. I knew him first through his son, Christopher Buckley, the satirical author. Later in reading his own National Review. He was a thinker if nothing else. Peace, Chris
It's a shame. Politics has lost a wonderful human being.
Some folks credit Bill Buckley with ending the Cold War. Sure, Reagan is the one most folks look to, but Reagan would not have been President had it not been for the Goldwater insurgency, and that insurgency was inspired and breathed to life in the infancy of the National Review, and from the man who went around the country getting founding for what seemed like a dubious idea: a conservative magazine during a time when liberal thinking & lifestyle was on high tide.
Bill Buckley was the founder of modern conservatism, a fervent intellectual, a funny and disarming personality. Politics has truly lost one of its greats.
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Chris,
I attribute to William F. Buckley and National Review the 100 point rise in my verbal SAT score in between my junior and senior years in High School.
To give you some idea of what he means to us who are conservatives, imagine if Jimmy Carter died. That's what we are feeling tonight.
It's a shame. Politics has lost a wonderful human being.
Some folks credit Bill Buckley with ending the Cold War. Sure, Reagan is the one most folks look to, but Reagan would not have been President had it not been for the Goldwater insurgency, and that insurgency was inspired and breathed to life in the infancy of the National Review, and from the man who went around the country getting founding for what seemed like a dubious idea: a conservative magazine during a time when liberal thinking & lifestyle was on high tide.
Bill Buckley was the founder of modern conservatism, a fervent intellectual, a funny and disarming personality. Politics has truly lost one of its greats.
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