William F. Buckley, Conservative Giant, Dies February 26, 2008 at 82Years Old

On Feb 29, 4:02*pm, American wrote:
On Feb 29, 3:45*pm, American wrote:

On Feb 28, 7:35*pm, kT wrote:

American wrote:
William F. Buckley

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

Elfritz attempts to define down conservatism by demigoging a dead man
as a "witch".

Please enlighten us, Elfritz, what is the reason for this demigoguery?

American

This is the very dismay that Buckley had with conservatism, that
people like "Elfritz" had become slothful with its application - that
"living ideas" had become "mummified doctrines" to the status quo at
best - and no class of people were more capable of "repristination"
than the scientifically intuitive.

At least IMHO, conservatism can be defined as even a scientific
principle, forged from intuition, and applied to the various avenues
of implementation, for some viable economic theory.

So "if tested by fire" wouldn't one expect that "toys for boys" might
represent not just the nature of conflict between national ideologies
in conflict, but the introduction of modernized civilization into
society?

Yeah, that's right - get real.

American

Let's get it straight with William F. Buckley.

Buckley had the unique ability to expose the glaring contrast and
articulate the characteristic difference between the enlightened and
uninformed, the noisy anarchist and the squelched draconian.

As such, he has left us with a resource of conversational diadem that
can be seen in his various books, essays, and newspaper columns. He
authored over 50 books, and was contributing editor to magazines like
The American Spectator and National Review.

Unfortunately, it will be easy to describe most or all of WFB's
successors as ones who will betray his memory, which they find easier
to praise, now that he is gone. This is an old trick that we saw when
Reagan died.

It will be the adherence to the principles of conservatism - the
exchange of ideas, the conversational diadems, that will again renew
the spirit of independent thinking in the party - the reason
conservatives APPEAR to be separated from the McCain candidacy is
because of the continual reflection and imitation of conservative
values SUPERFICIALLY - but these values are again being continually
clouded by independent third parties (oops, did I say INDEPENDENT?) -
which shows a shift of conservatism that is completely OUTSIDE of all
POPULIST ones - those being both the Democrat and Republican parties.

I think the key here is to make the remote connection to how
communication between opposing ideas will separate the surreal from
the most effective - and this connection will not be a mass-media
programmed one, but yet one that results in mass media programming at
each of the local levels within the society. To actually plumb the
depths of a society with these characteristics should prove that any
involvement of our military establishment internationally can only
strengthen the conservative movement domestically.

American