RAGGED THOTS

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The Parting of WFB's "Offspring."

So, there were ramifications from Chris Buckley's decision to endorse Barack Obama.

He apparently is no longer writing for the magazine his father founded:

Tuesday in a phone interview with the Austin American-Statesman he revealed another surprise: After NR readers raised holy heck over his perceived betrayal of the right, he offered to resign his column - and it was accepted.
“It upset a great number of people - a huge number of canceled subscriptions, apostasy, the whole thing,” he said from Washington.
When he offered his resignation to the magazine’s editors, “I was sort of hoping for, ‘Well, let’s hink about it,’ ” Buckley said. “But to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”

And so it goes.

Labels: Christopher Buckley, National Review, William F. Buckley

# posted by Robert A. George @ 10:30 AM

Friday, October 10, 2008

A Buckley Decamps

William F.'s legitimate son, Christopher, goes for Obama (see here for the reason behind the necessary descriptor).

In the GOP "family departures" department, that now makes three: Susan Eisenhower made her endorsement over the winter and Mrs. Chuck Hagel came out for Obama on Tuesday (Chuck has decided to stay neutral publicly).

Any others that come to mind?

Labels: Barack Obama, Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley