Big Conservative backs Obama

[Stooge]

Originally Posted by InternetHero

Interesting, but there is some irony here.

A few months ago he was telling the more right-wing members of the Republican establishment to cease fire over their criticism of McCain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/op...19buckley.html

"It may strike some conservatives today as odd, if not absurd, to see John McCain being subjected to an auto-da-fé conducted by such Torquemadas of the right as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity."

"In response, let me offer a thoughtful, considered, carefully worded comment: Would you all please just...shut...up?"

Of course in politics you can change your mind, but for him to do a complete 180 in a few months time and endorse Obama, and really equally ironic that the Limbaugh's of the world have jumped behind McCain.

I'm not sure how it's a 180 being that there isn't an endorsement anywhere in the article you posted.

[choji]

My rants on sherdog are usually conserative based, but this one is bi-partisan. I would vote for obama "IF" I knew he would not do allot of the things he has said. I would vote for McCain if he did the opposite of bush and make his VP shut up. This election is all about gimmicks. I have debated friends from work up and down about McCain being a stronger pick, but its getting close and I don't know.

[SMEAC]

You have a very strange definition of "big", he is a nobody with a famous dad.

[ghostfacekiller]

Originally Posted by InternetHero

Interesting, but there is some irony here.

A few months ago he was telling the more right-wing members of the Republican establishment to cease fire over their criticism of McCain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/op...19buckley.html

"It may strike some conservatives today as odd, if not absurd, to see John McCain being subjected to an auto-da-fé conducted by such Torquemadas of the right as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity."

"In response, let me offer a thoughtful, considered, carefully worded comment: Would you all please just...shut...up?"

Of course in politics you can change your mind, but for him to do a complete 180 in a few months time and endorse Obama, and really equally ironic that the Limbaugh's of the world have jumped behind McCain.

That was during the primary when the right-wing of the Republican party was killing McCain as a closet liberal

[BP3]

This guy is no conservative.

No conservative would ever vote for a marxist.

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[Stooge]

Originally Posted by SMEAC

You have a very strange definition of "big", he is a nobody with a famous dad.

He's a regular writer for the NYT, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, plus he wrote a book that became a major motion picture in "Thank You for Smoking"...those are pretty high marks for a nobody.

[Rett Medvinger]

McCain isn't a conservative. He pretends to be sometimes, but he really isn't.

I can't fault Buckley for this. It's a protest endorsement. I've listened to some recent interviews of him lately and he basically stated as much. Keep in mind the games that are being played here though with the media. If he had endorsed McCain, it wouldn't have even been a blip on the radar. It's the media trying to force an impression down everyone's throat.

God I hate the fucking media. They are more corrupt than both political parties combined.

[Rett Medvinger]

Double

[whiskeyyyy]

Originally Posted by BP3

No conservative would ever vote for a marxist.

You don't have the slightest idea what the term actually means do you. It becomes rather meaningless when used as a pejorative to describe anyone who sits to the left of your wingnut viewpoints.

How about you give us a coherent breakdown of Marxism and exactly how it relates to Obama's policy positions.

Hint: mumbling something about government run healthcare and snarling on about socialist this and socialist that will not be sufficient.

[whiskeyyyy]

Originally Posted by DrSatanDracula

What a traitor.

If the Democrats were coming off one of the worst presidencies in the history of the republic and then fielded and absolute joke of a ticket, causing some Democrat voters to shift Republican, I wouldn't call it traitorous. I'd call it predictable.