Searching for the Next Bill Buckley
As anyone reading any substantive blogs or even ancient-media news sources knows, the great William F. Buckley died yesterday. And rather than write an extensive hagiography here, I'm going to utilize the amazing superiority of modern media and link to a few already done. Ha! Take that, dead-tree media! Take that O'Reilly!
Now, where was I? Oh, right...
As this last presidential campaign season indicated, the right hasn't done a good job replacing the late Ronald Reagan. Candidate after candidate has tried to present themselves as the legitimate heir to Reagan, and the conservative movement has largely yawned, shrugged their shoulders and shouted, "Next!"
Let's not allow it to come to that as we now begin our search for the next Bill Buckley. Let's be proactive and start our search before his body is even allowed to cool. In poor taste you say? Umm... yeah. Where did you think you were reading this? National Geographic?!
So anyway, interested parties can submit their applications along with their qualifications through comments or e-mail here. A winner will be announced some time in the undecided shadowy future. Feel free to draft uninterested or even unsuitable parties and submit them, as this role is simply too important to be confined to those with nothing better to do than read this blog (no offense intended).
Now, where was I? Oh, right...
As this last presidential campaign season indicated, the right hasn't done a good job replacing the late Ronald Reagan. Candidate after candidate has tried to present themselves as the legitimate heir to Reagan, and the conservative movement has largely yawned, shrugged their shoulders and shouted, "Next!"
Let's not allow it to come to that as we now begin our search for the next Bill Buckley. Let's be proactive and start our search before his body is even allowed to cool. In poor taste you say? Umm... yeah. Where did you think you were reading this? National Geographic?!
So anyway, interested parties can submit their applications along with their qualifications through comments or e-mail here. A winner will be announced some time in the undecided shadowy future. Feel free to draft uninterested or even unsuitable parties and submit them, as this role is simply too important to be confined to those with nothing better to do than read this blog (no offense intended).
Posted by Doug Williams on
Thursday February 28, 2008 at 2:43am
