John McCain supports Bush's wiretapping, and will also spy on Americans!
by Thomas J. Belknap
July 24, 2006, 7:57 am
Oooh! That’s Harsh!
Yep, if you want insulting, look no further than the ever-dismissive William F. Buckley:
Asked what President Bush’s foreign policy legacy will be to his successor, Buckley says “There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush. I don’t believe his successor would re-enunciate the words he used in his second inaugural address because they were too ambitious. So therefore I think his legacy is indecipherable”
Ouch!
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Buckley is only one of the “traditional” conservatives who are renouncing the neocon agenda. His remarks represent the schism that has been growing between the neocons and traditional conservatives. George Will is another example:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071701152.html
Money quote:
“The national, ethnic and religious dynamics of the Middle East are opaque to most people, but to the Weekly Standard — voice of a spectacularly misnamed radicalism, “neoconservatism” — everything is crystal clear”
Yeah, it’s been a schism that I’ve very much enjoyed watching happen. But, if there’s anything I love Buckley for, it’s that effortlessly, pompously blue-blooded dismissiveness that he so typifies. Not that I’d hang out with him, of course, and I can’t say there’s much we have in common politically, but he makes for a great character on TV.
George Will is his own unique brand of nut-case, but he’s largely a yes-man to a larger cause that I don’t think needs him. Buckley on the other hand represents an entire voting block. For him to flat-out say that “There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush,” is really quite a thing.