William F. Buckley's son Christopher, in a blog post explaining why he offered his resignation to National Review after a previous blog post in which he endorsed Barack Obama brought a storm of hostile correspondence to NR, commented So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity. The GOP likes to say it’s a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me. That's rather the impression I had too.
A few years ago, I realized that without noticing it, I had decided that the Democrats were going to be the lesser evil virtually every time, and that an area that reliably voted Republican was not one I considered civilized. It was rather a shock. Then I discovered that the head of the Ayn Rand Institute had pronounced a few years ago that the only morally valid choice in the current American political culture was to vote the straight Democratic ticket. I know of a number of other libertarians who consider Obama the lesser evil, or consider the Republicans utterly hopeless.
On the other hand, the recent bailout vote revealed real fractures in the Republican Party, when a majority of Republicans in the House voting against their own president's economic plan.
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Date: 2008-10-16 05:56 am (UTC)A few years ago, I realized that without noticing it, I had decided that the Democrats were going to be the lesser evil virtually every time, and that an area that reliably voted Republican was not one I considered civilized. It was rather a shock. Then I discovered that the head of the Ayn Rand Institute had pronounced a few years ago that the only morally valid choice in the current American political culture was to vote the straight Democratic ticket. I know of a number of other libertarians who consider Obama the lesser evil, or consider the Republicans utterly hopeless.
On the other hand, the recent bailout vote revealed real fractures in the Republican Party, when a majority of Republicans in the House voting against their own president's economic plan.