William F. Buckley, Jr. R.I.P.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
1925-2008

National Review Online is reporting that William F. Buckley, Jr. has passed away.

With the passing of Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman and now Buckley, conservatism has lost its trio of icons.

Condolences to his family, his colleagues and lovers of individual liberty everywhere.

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  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Buckley championed the Constitution, liberty, economic freedom, and individual responsibility.

    I can only assume that anticonservative is opposed to all of those things.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    How can I hope he burns in hell when hell doesnt exist? Now thats just wacky superstition. What I can do is hope he had a horrible and painful death and hope that others like him follow suit. But that doesn\’t matter now because hes dead. All his potential pain, joy, suffering and elation has come to an inevitable end never to be experienced again.
    2008 baby! The death of Conservatism! Good things DO come to those who wait!

    Rob you have been infested with Trolls that are ruining ever post, they should be nuked.

  • dannyboy

    Go back to your own country, wetback!

  • AntiConservative

    FACT: The Bush Administration is ripe with hypocrisy and double standards.

    Keep posing the announcements of deaths of your beloved scumbags so I can shit all over them for you. Somebody has to do it.

  • dannyboy

    Good one batty. Do you write for Leno?

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Yeah, it’s better to blame terrorist attacks on gay people, makes a lot of sense.

    Wow, one guy. Good comeback.

    Although gay people tend to vote Democrat, so it’s not COMPLETELY unfair.

  • Bat One

    Yeah, it’s better to blame terrorist attacks on gay people, makes a lot of sense.

    You mean Clinton, Gore, and Sandy Berger are ALL gay? Wow! Who’da thunk it!

  • Mickey

    I was fortunate enough to sit through one of his talks when he was a guest speaker for the company I work for.
    He was a true gentleman and scholar.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Keep posing (sic) the announcements of deaths of your beloved scumbags so I can shit all over them for you.

    You’re full of it, so it stands to reason you’ve got plenty to share!

  • AntiConservative

    Buckley championed the Constitution, liberty, economic freedom, and individual responsibility.

    I can only assume that anticonservative is opposed to all of those things.

    So he was a Liberal then. Could have fooled me. LOL!

  • Bat One

    Could have fooled me. LOL!

    A task easy enough to make it hardly worth the effort.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Wow! More morons kicking the bucket! The world just keeps getting lighter and lighter! Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! He is seriously somebody who I wish will rot in hell forever, if such a place existed. Being worm food is too good for somebody like him.

    There’s something wrong with someone who applauds the death of someone with a differing viewpoint.

    This is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. When a prominent liberal dies, Malkin, Hannity, et. al. post about it and keep the family in their prayers. Liberals rejoice at the deaths of people they disagree with.

    Another sign that the left is morally bankrupt.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Wow! More morons kicking the bucket! The world just keeps getting lighter and lighter! Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! He is seriously somebody who I wish will rot in hell forever, if such a place existed. Being worm food is too good for somebody like him.

    Oh yeah! 2008 is going to be an awesome year!

    Boy that is really classy. Good comment troll.

  • pparets

    anticonserve: To wish anyone a slow, painful death is simply contemptable. There can only be two possible reasons for you making such a tasteless comment:

    1. Shock value: You are personally tittilated by the idea of offending those who admired Buckley.

    2. You are – in fact – tasteless and contemptable.

    A third possibility presents itself: You are both.

  • AntiConservative

    Anticonservative, on every post I have seen that lets us give condolences to someone who has passed away you write comments that you are glad the person has died and that you hope the individual burns in hell.

    How can I hope he burns in hell when hell doesnt exist? Now thats just wacky superstition. What I can do is hope he had a horrible and painful death and hope that others like him follow suit. But that doesn\’t matter now because hes dead. All his potential pain, joy, suffering and elation has come to an inevitable end never to be experienced again.

    2008 baby! The death of Conservatism! Good things DO come to those who wait!

  • Bat One

    Scot-Irish tard. slobber for me tard

    That’s not slobber. Its conversation!

  • Neiman

    I have no end of sincere respect for Buckley, his intellect and contributions to America and I say R.I.P. Bill, but it occurs to me that conservatism is nothing but a wanton whore. Buckley, Goldwater, Reagan and several others are claimed to be fathers of modern conservatism, so conservatism is immoral at its very core, not having one father but many! The reason I mention this is because this accounts for why there is no clear definition of conservatism to which even a large number of conservatives would agree, it is a vapor in the wind, an illusion and its adherents not only seem lacking in compassion, but often willing to kill and destroy their own that their version of conservatism may prevail over all others. The many conservatives commenting here attest to that fact, if another conservative dares move even slightly from anothers strict conservative beliefs, others will join with them like rapid dogs tearing the wavering disciple apart and thus making it clear, adhere or die. But, adhere to what? There is no clear conservative message as its many, many fathers can attest.

    Rest in peace Bill, but you leave a damn mess behind you about what conservatism really means and disciples that are fuilled with hate for one another and greater hate for liberals as human beings. Long live the king (Bill) and I fear death to the conservative movement!

  • AntiConservative

    This is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. When a prominent liberal dies, Malkin, Hannity, et. al. post about it and keep the family in their prayers. Liberals rejoice at the deaths of people they disagree with.

    My ass. I guess you\’ve never seen Fox New\’s scathing obituary of the great American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Turn a blind eye and ignore the facts, that is the Conservative way.

    As for myself, I hold no qualms to the fact that I hope William F.uckly Jr\’s death was slow and hideously painful as he deserved far worse than mere death. I applaud his death and wish for more Conservative scumbags to die.

  • Lonely Federalist

    Well, since this thread can’t go any further down the crapper, in addition to my sadness at the passing of WFB, it looks like Boyd Coddington died today, too.

    What a crappy day.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Aunt Spelling Bea!!!!

  • El Ronde De Grondo

    Buckley certainly was a lot of things, but the idea that he was an antisemite (look at who is left at the
    National Review) is pretty assine. In fact, it is a conscious lie. If you want to smear him, fine. But please you poor idiot don’t go there.

  • Bat One

    A huge loss for America. Mr. Buckley’s intellectual legacy is without equal in American history.

  • El Ronde De Grondo

    Scot-Irish tard. slobber for me tard

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    What I can do is hope he had a horrible and painful death

    You believe in karma, jackass? What goes around, comes around!

  • laydownSally

    Buckley was a great man and one that will live on still.

  • Jay

    Wow! More morons kicking the bucket! The world just keeps getting lighter and lighter! Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! He is seriously somebody who I wish will rot in hell forever, if such a place existed. Being worm food is too good for somebody like him.

    This is just as pathetic as revelling in the hypothetical shooting death of a Democratic candidate

    It’s never good when someone dies…especially when that person at least contributes, intelligently, to the political debate.

    I don’t agree with much of anything he said, but if I could paraphrase what another poster on a much more left-leaning forum put it, I would rather listen to WFB Jr. read the phone book for 4 hours than endure 5 minutes of Rush/Hannity/Coulter.

  • http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

    What I can do is hope he had a horrible and painful death and hope that others like him follow suit.

    Yeah, I bet anticonservative is against waterboarding terrorists because it is unhumane.

  • Bat One

    Not much good at sarcasm, are you, Tex. You post it, its public!

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Before there was Ronald Reagan, or George Will, Buckley was about it, him and Goldwater.

    He was conservatism.

  • Wing Chun Geologist

    Up until about the age of 15 I lived on a small patch of farmland in south-east California. No-one in my family or circle of acquaintences had ever graduated from college.

    Sometime around 15 I went to live with my mom and stepfather, who had cable TV. I was flipping betwween channels and happened to come across two programs. One was Steve Allen’s Meeting of the Minds, the other was William F. Buckley’s Firing Line.

    The impression that Allen and Buckley made on me gave me the desire to go to college, and rise above my childhood environment.

    Mr. Buckley, God bless you for that.

    For whatever reason I became hooked on these shows.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Wow! More morons kicking the bucket! The world just keeps getting lighter and lighter! Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! He is seriously somebody who I wish will rot in hell forever, if such a place existed. Being worm food is too good for somebody like him.

    Compare this to the laughably thin charge on another thread:

    Why do you (conservatives) hate liberals so much?

    Oh, and Anti-Conservative,CommonSense,&Civility: And the horse you rode in on!

  • Bat One

    That’s classical liberal to you, anticonservative.

    Ken,

    There’s little point in trying to explain music to someone who is congenitally tone deaf.

  • AntiConservative

    Wow! More morons kicking the bucket! The world just keeps getting lighter and lighter! Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! He is seriously somebody who I wish will rot in hell forever, if such a place existed. Being worm food is too good for somebody like him.

    Oh yeah! 2008 is going to be an awesome year!

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    That’s classical liberal to you, anticonservative.

  • Bat One

    Nah! He’s too slow.

  • dannyboy

    You mean I’m not an anorexic, attention-seeking, pathological liar?!?! Thanks Tuna!

  • El Ronde De Grondo

    You must be as tarded as Dani if that is your idea of conversation. Stay out of it.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    He was a great man. The world was richer for having Bill Buckley in it.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Buckley favored drug legalization, so he can’t be all that bad, for an anti-semite.

    dhimmiboy: Please save your anti-semitic slurs for for people who are not as bright as you.
    That would be…no one.

  • Bat One

    THAT’s a “scathing” obituary???

    Now that’s funny!

  • dannyboy

    “Liberals rejoice at the deaths of people they disagree with.”

    Yeah, it’s better to blame terrorist attacks on gay people, makes a lot of sense.

    At least Buckley favored drug legalization, so he can’t be all that bad, for an anti-semite.

  • http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

    Anticonservative, on every post I have seen that lets us give condolences to someone who has passed away you write comments that you are glad the person has died and that you hope the individual burns in hell.

    Grow up. You claim that it’s conservatives who do it but every piece of evidence I have seen points to you, lik, and dannyboy. And, yes you are as pathetic as those other two and I am right to lump you in with them. If is looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.

  • Tuna

    Danny boy–you’re no Ann Coulter.

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