Here's Chris Buckley, from the National Review. And it's nice to see these true Republicans put country above politics, and admit what we all know is true:
McCain and Palin (Idiot) are unacceptable, disgusting, dangerous, and a national embarrassment.
Now if we can just get Frank to admit that too, I think we could all move on.
Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama
by Christopher Buckley
I am—drum roll, please, cue trumpets—making this announcement in the cyberpages of The Daily Beast (what joy to be writing for a publication so named!) rather than in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column. For a reason: My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in National Review Online a column stating what John Cleese as Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious”: namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. She’s not exactly alone. New York Times columnist David Brooks, who began his career at NR, just called Governor Palin “a cancer on the Republican Party.”
John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?
Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.
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5 comments:
The Alaska panel found Palin guilty of abusing power in the firing of her commissioner. Wouldn't that be the right moment for Pahlin to step down from the ticket "to concentrate on fighting this outrageous allegations"? And McCain could ask Mitt Romney for some economic expertise. It won't, however, help McCain to win the presidency. Bush prevented that with suggesting his 700 billion bailout and, effectively, disorienting and beating the Republican party.
WFB had completely abandoned Bush by the 2nd Inaugural. His "What did he say?!" Article explored how far Bush, and by extension those who voted for him, had drifted from "true" conservatism.
But that was obvious since the Kennedy assassination. Why did it take Buckley 42 years to figure it out?
This is what happens when we have two Senators vying for the Presidency. It's a choice between two talking machines who have refined abilities to seek expediency and compromise over substance. McCain's one advantage is he knows where some of the skeletons are hidden -- Obama is a kid who will get rolled big time by the DC crowd.
McCain and Obama are flip sides of the same coin, and IMO anyone who thinks either can effect real change is deluded.
God help us come January...
Good. Keep them coming.
"Obama is a kid who will get rolled big time by the DC crowd."
Oh, you mean the way Hillary, Bill and the Clinton machine rolled him?
Or maybe you mean the way the way McCain/Palin are rolling him?
Steely, opinions SHOULD be based on facts.
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