The National Review’s rigid demand for conformity and shrieking rancor against the heretics has been and interesting side-effect (or, as the elder Buckley might have put it, epiphenomenon) of the Palin pick.

The NeoCons had best watch their diet or they’re going to explode, from within.

Cry me that fucking river.

The guy sounds ever the asshat in that column, followed by a troupe of clowns in the comments, all falling out of the same car, only to stand up and give little golf claps and say “What ho! Good old chap!”

This bit from the comments there sums things up nicely:

“I’m sorry Mr.Buckley,but you and your father and George Will and the
rest of the old school conservatives are guilty of allowing the Limbaughs
and Hannitys and O’Reillys of the right spread hate and fear and deceit so
that now those are the three guiding principles of conservative
ideology,not fiscal responsibility,small government,or any of the other
mantras of the right.”

Word. They let the bull into the china shop and now are complaining about the mess.

Can you imagine maintaining, for years, this level of cognitive dissonance?

Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.

Doesn’t that feel better now, Christopher?

this IS the same publication headed by the guy who masturbates in public over Tundratrash Barbie winking at him, right?

Maybe Chris hasn’t really switched sides after all……maybe he just can’t take the embarrassment.

Aren’t there some species where the young, once hatched, eat the one that gave birth to them?

If not, there is now…

Always was more of a shabby little cardboard box than an actual tent anyway. His daddy would be so proud of the movement and publication he helped found. There is a god(dess) and she has a vicious sense of humor.

Can we say that the Reagan Revolution is over and has ended as all revolutions do?

The intensification of the ‘Reign of Terror’ and Robespierre’s autocracy made him increasingly unpopular. French military successes served to undermine the justification for such ruthlessness and a conspiracy was formed to overthrow Robespierre. On 27 July 1794, he was arrested after a struggle. The following day Robespierre, wounded from a bullet to the jaw, and 21 of his closest supporters were executed at the guillotine.

Tant pis.

Big Tent fail? More like a pup tent fail. So who wants to be the last GOP apologist to remain onboard the Titanic?

That was their one remaining strength, wasn’t it? While their ideology was proven wrong time and again and their house of cards wobbled ever more, they could still circle the wagons and maintain an awe-inspiring internal discipline (viz the unwavering party line votes in Congress when it really mattered). Dissenters knew to shut up if only for the good of the party and the movement. But now? Behold: infighting, defections, confusion, contradictions, and wonderful, utter chaos in their ranks. Yum.

As ‘Kos says: now truly is the time to completely crush their spirits and ensure that the nasty ogre that was the conservative movement is slain and buried once and for all.

Another day and McRickles and Little Ms. Georgette Wallace are smokin’ hot.

McCain Economic advisor Dougy Holtz-Eeeeeeeak!in:

“I have no comment on anything, to anybody.”

McRickles has Obama’s campaign “just where we want them.”

He’s gonna goshdarnit take a dive doggonit so he can position Igloo-twit and her french braided mush brain to run in ‘12 in his delusional world.

Take that all you fire puppy pups.

If you believe Palin could run for President in 2012, you probably believe the West Virginia Supreme Court in Christy Hardin Smith’s legal milieu isn’t totally clusterfucked with none of the justices speaking to each other and no bribery charges flyin’.

Komodo dragons: if the young don’t climb a tree ASAP, they’re gone.

ah, crap, I misread the question. Um, how ’bout Zeus and his crowd overthrowing their progenitors? Otherwise, I got nuthin;

Now who is the Doughy Pantsload going to bum Twinkies and Yo-Yos and Ding-Dongs from when he gets that 9:35 am craving?

Damn, all this schadenfreud is so tasty; I’m going to gain at least a pound or two if this steady diet keeps up.

If you believe Palin could run for President in 2012, you probably believe …

Could run? Why note? At the least, she could give Huckabee a run for the conservative-Christian base.

Winning, OTOH, is a whole ‘nother proposition.

not.

preview is your friend.

As ‘Kos says: now truly is the time to completely crush their spirits and ensure that the nasty ogre that was the conservative movement is slain and buried once and for all.

Easy there, our brethren on the right were saying similar things not so long ago. Given the Democratic Party’s well documented ability to screw-the-pooch, I think a timely reminder to “not get cocky” is in order.

To be grouchy, it’s debatable if Buckley, Sr. was ever a neocon. National Review predates Irving Kristol’s coining of the word.