[PenultimateManStanding]

I used to read his magazine, National Review, avidly. Not necessarily for the the political views espoused. There was an element of Conservatism which was cultural and not political. It was about holding on to what was good in the past, an intellectual point of view which I found appealing. The contributors to Buckley's magazine possessed fine minds and I learned much from them.

[efarmer]

He really was a fine specimen of human being. He had a very
well thought out and formulated universe of meshing ideas and
principles and he was at home, fluent, and adept at it.
He could accept dissent or opposition from a reasonable and
respectable place without feeling he had to smear, or insult,
or damage, or neutralize any or all who was not in his sphere
of thought and influence. He was a very big and respectable
person.

The Republicans all seem to go back to Reagan to get their
warm fuzzies, but Reagan was the warm and comfortable
structure, WFB was the architect.

There are people left, center, and right who all claim to be
a proponent of a noble and gifted thinker or leader or one
sort or another. But their actions betray them, they are willing
to say or do or permit almost anything in pursuit of their goals
and in so doing they really become part of the smearing and pandering blob of indecipherable crap that shape shifts to
attempt to add legitimacy to that which has no right to it.
We forget that when you see people smearing scat on each
other and claiming it part of an honorable defense of their
ideas and principles, they must not really have any.

[Flowerr]

There are three certainties.

1. War
2. taxes
3. Judgement day.

[kabu]

... I really liked watching him get stomped by Chomsky in that old debate of theirs!

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('efarmer', 'W')e forget that when you see people smearing scat on each other and claiming it part of an honorable defense of their ideas and principles, they must not really have any.

[lateStarter]

He had an amazing vocabulary. I remember watching him with a pencil and paper at my side. I'd jot down all the $20 words that he used in the course of his discussion and then look them up later.

The weird thing is that he used them naturally. They weren't forced. I think he belonged to a much different era - probably Victorian.

My all time favorite that I still remember to this day was this one:

pejoratively...

Tell me honestly. Without looking it up! Who knows what this word means? Would make a great SAT reading comprehension question (if they still do that kind of thing).

[BigTex]

I liked him a lot. Not too many of the larger than life types around anymore.

Seemed like a really sincere, funny and warm person. People who knew him spoke very highly of him.

[lys3rg0]

The world is now a better place.

[jboogy]

I'll take a shot latestart; pejoratively- of, or having to do with the pejoggler, pejoggler being slang for male reproductive organ?

I liked WFB too, he was not however instrumental in the assention of the neocons, he did not not like the neocons or their agenda, that's why you rarely saw him on TV the last seven years. He also was not someone who could " accept dissent or opposition....without smear or insult, etc." I saw Gore Vidal kick his ass on a show once so bad that Buckley lost it and got so mad he called Vidal a Fag something or other. He was losing the argument and resorted to anger and insults. But I did like him.

[oswald622]

chomsky vs. buckley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlMEVTa-PI

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', 'T')he world is now a better place.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', 'T')he world is now a better place.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'A')nother one I kind of like but don't agree with much is Pat Buchanan (I don't know how that's going to play with this crowd).

I just like the interesting personalities who seem to believe what they say and don't take every cheap shot they can.

[DomusAlbion]

Buckley introduced me to two things I've treasured ever since I first watched Firing Line when I was just a wee lad.

Conservative thought and Bach.

Rest in Peace, dear gentle man.

[lys3rg0]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', 'T')he world is now a better place.

[Alcassin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', 'T')he world is now a better place.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', 'T')he world is now a better place.

[lys3rg0]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') admired Buckley. So sue me.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') admired Buckley. So sue me.

[Alcassin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')es, Stalin was dangerous too. I admired Buckley. So sue me.