Christopher Buckley, son of the late conservative icon William F. Buckley, has endorsed Barack Obama, the first time in his life he will vote Democrat.
The younger Buckley, a columnist at the conservative National Review, wrote "It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance."
On John McCain Buckley writes:
"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?"
Without a doubt, Palin's nomination started the question raising among republicans who supported McCain from the start. Buckley praised McCain in a New York Times Op-Ed earlier this year and defended the Arizona senator's conservative credentials against conservative talk show hosts. He now says that McCain is no longer the "real" and "unconventional" man he once admired.
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I really do believe, the Bush machine convinced McCain to allow them to run the campaign and he has been side-tracked for the sole purpose of retaining the GOP hold on the Executive office.
I wouldn't doubt it that when McCain dropped out in 2000, Bush made a promise that if McCain stood by him he would ensure McCain ascended to the throne upon Bush vacating the position.
It's truly sad to witness a man who sold his soul for ambition and power.
The Palin, Cheney, Rove type, you don't want them anywhere. McCain is joining them. McCain was a guy democrats wanted in their party. War hero, fights both parties based on his principles, loves his country. The fighting both parties and standing for he believes is going. It's all about playing politics, embrace the right tactics of 'win at all costs'.