Wise Conservatism

Today, February 27th, 2008, William F. Buckley, writer and commentator, with a witty and patrician intellectual, who helped to found the modern conservative movement in U.S. Politics died at the age of 82.

Buckley is credited with influencing the views of President Ronald Reagan. And he was a leading voice of the conservative political movement, that helped to send a Republican to the White House in seven of the past ten U.S. presidential elections.

Buckley’s ideas of anti-Communism and traditional views on social issues such as abortion came to dominate the American Conservative thought. He showed his opinions with charm and an erudite tone, that made him a hero on the right. However, some on the left saw him as smug and pompous. The reason why the liberals and a lot of people didn’t like him because he used such big words, that almost everyone who listened to him always felt the need to get out a dictionary to find out what he was saying. Most people wouldn’t mind that, but the liberals didn’t like that someone was smarter.

He was best known as host for the television show “Firing Line” that lasted on the air for more than 30 years. On the show he skewered liberals with a smile, and often while staring down at the camera with his reading glasses balanced on the end of his nose. His used of the long words, *like I said above* sent many viewers to the dictionary.

Buckley graduated with honors from Yale University in 1950 with degrees in political science, economics and history.

I know that the Conservative movement will miss this man…..as it is under attack from the Liberals and from supposed Conservatives themselves who are trying hard to redefine Conservatism. But even so, William F. Buckley was a giant in the Conservative Movement.

When Bill Buckley once asked, “Have you ever seen a dream walking?” he may not have realized that for conservatives, at least, he was the answer to his own question. But that question has evolved I think now….to Have you ever seen a dream die?

With the death of William F. Buckley, we may see the dream start to die. If we let it. And so far, with the changing mores’ when it comes to Conservatism, we are letting it die. I know that I, for one, will not let it die without a fight. William Buckley deserves more of us. Conservatism deserves more of us.

Mr. William F. Buckley, you will be missed in this world of changing ideas, and ideas that ideals can be changed too. God Bless you.

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