Chris Buckley: I’m With Obama

Would the late William F. Buckley approve of his son throwing his support behind the most liberal Senator EVER!!!? Something tells me the answer to that would be: possibly. Why? Because I think this has less to do with Obama and more to do with how far McCain has fallen. From The Daily Beast: I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. Earlier this year, I wrote in The New York Times—I’m beginning to sound like Paul Krugman, who cannot begin a column without saying, “As I warned the world in my last column…”—a highly favorable Op-Ed about McCain, taking Rush Limbaugh and the others in the Right Wing Sanhedrin to task for going after McCain for being insufficiently conservative. I don’t—still—doubt that McCain’s instincts remain fundamentally conservative. But the problem is... [read full story]                    

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