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BUCKLEY'S LEGACY
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Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s
William F.
Buckley, RIP
, Alfred S. Regnery's
Conservatism's
Heart and Soul
, and
Tributes
and Reminiscences
:
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p>I enjoyed very much your reminiscence of Bill Buckley. That is,
until the penultimate sentence. I recognize that the deceased do
not often have the privilege of choosing to whom their torch is
passed on to; however, I would find it difficult to believe that
Mr. Buckley would choose to hand his off to Ms. Coulter. And this
for some of the very characteristics that you so fondly remembered
in Mr. Buckley. His was a conservatism of intellect and erudition,
as you so rightly point out; he commanded by his very manor the
respect of friend and foe alike, conservative and liberal. His
graciousness was of the kind long passed from this scene, even to
his most ardent opponents whose ideas and ideologies he held with
contempt. Ms. Coulter does not have the benefit of any of these.
I'll perhaps grant you intelligence, but this is so rarely in view
given her penchant for sensationalism and beside-the-point
demagoguery. As I sat in my office yesterday and watched a YouTube
video of Buckley's debate with Chomsky on the Vietnam War, I
resigned myself to the fact that there is simply no one at this
point in the history of the conservative movement who can even
approach what Buckley did and was for the movement these last 50
years; CERTAINLY NOT Ann Coulter. Perhaps Mr. Gingrich, but he is
too stained by the taint of politics past. Thank God Buckley never
followed through on his presidential pretensions.
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--
Jeffrey A. Wilcox, Ph.D
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I began to get interested in politics again a few years ago when my
youngest son fresh out of college came to me telling me I just had
to see Michael Moore's
