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In reply to the discussion: Rick Santorum Says "Smart People Will Never Be On Our Side" [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)For all the crap he spewed in his last years, trying to distinguish himself as a capital "c" conservative over the army of homonculi he helped to create, Buckley's political opinions were usually almost entirely reactionary.
He didn't have an opinion unless liberals provided one for him to twist into his own pretzel. And then he choked when he and his heroes had to eat them.
Buckley died bitter and disillusioned, disappointed with the amoral, dysfunctional world he had toiled so assiduously to forge. But he would have railed against President Obama every week, because President Obama would have provided him with actual policies from which he could bounce his "no it's not" ideology.
And that, in a nutshell, was Bill Buckley: sophistry, not substance. He and Mitt would have been peas in a pod.