Comments on: William F. Buckley Jr., RIP

By: MJ

MJ — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:09:44 +0000

ROGER:
(comments for soft jihad not operating)
Anyway, your wonderful ideas about the creeping rash known in medical circles as
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This disease is contagious in the extreme. Any person coming within range of such a person should immediately run for cover as fast as possible.

By: Chris Burchfield

Chris Burchfield — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:53:12 +0000

Thanks very much for your tribute to Bill. I plan to purchase “Miles Gone By.”

In 1968 I was campaigning in New York for James Buckley (college credit) to the US Senate. The Richard Ottinger people were always asking me when the Buckleys were going to move from Connecticut to New York.

At the victory reception, which Bill attended instead of James, I asked him for an autograph. As he scratched it out, I made mention of the headaches ecountered by the Ottingerites.

He looked up, handed me the autograph and with a twinkle in his eye said, “Just tell them that when Jim becames Senator New York is going to annex Connecticut.”

An apex moment in my life, and there after without much reflectioon, I always assumed Bill Buckley would live forever.

By: Ideas and Consequences

Ideas and Consequences — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:56:23 +0000

Quotable Quorum — William F. Buckley, Jr.: A Man of Qualities

In the Nichomacean Ethics , Aristotle describes the qualities of the man who lives life to the limit

By: Fresh AIr

Fresh AIr — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:43:39 +0000

Beautifully written, as always. Mr. Buckley should have some paternity claim on the extraordinary gem known as the New Criterion as well, perhaps.

P.S. Anyone care to guess who bought the Patito? Hint: He’s too modest to mention it.

By: BMoon

BMoon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:52:31 +0000

I was a on the verge of teenagerhood in 1968 watching, confused and sad, at my world – the one on TV and the one in my neighborhood – come apart at the seams as the result of the 60’s dementia. Then one night I discovered Firing Line. I cannot fully express what watching Bill goad, laugh, and cofnfound his smug liberal guests night after night did in my psyche. It was pure joy. Reasoned discourse, rational thought and all with a joie de vivre utterly absent in the dour, self-righteous purveyors of leftist enslavement at the time. I was so entralled i joined the debate club at High school, regularly contradicted into silence my leftist teachers, and even took up classical music and sailing. Bill, you got a lot of us through those dark times.

Blessings, blessings, blessings upon you.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:27:14 +0000

Beautiful, well written. Oh how I wished I read and listened to more of him. I was a child hearing him speak and knew there was somehing so special, so unique in him. Little did I know nor understand what he was saying but how marvelous he sounded. Now older I understand better but not quite enough. Enough to know he was an outstanding man and gentlemen with high intelligence and form.
God bless him and his family.

By: Maggie's Farm

Maggie's Farm — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:58:34 +0000

“Admiral emeritus in perpetuity”

"My God, that guy can do everything." Roger Kimball talks about his friend, Bill Buckley.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:29:20 +0000

thanks for this. in your eulogy you reminded me of the base principles of why i am a conservative.

Mr. Buckley has passed, but his legacy and the fight go on.

By: WL Asbell

WL Asbell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:52:52 +0000

Dr. Kimball,

You’ve penned a most worthy and eloquent eulogy of a great man who will be sorely missed. As a fellow communicant, my faith assures me that he will be welcomed with fanfare and large, abiding love by his beloved Pat and by our “collective” Communion of Saints, among which he can most asuredly feel at home. As Rush Limbaugh said of him today, he is irreplaceable and Ed Feulner rightly pointed out that without the work of Bill Buckley, there would have been no President Reagan. He was our Dr. Johnson. He was both a man of letters and action, the leader of a movement to save America from itself and a decadence which, but for him and others, but especially him, would have gone unabated to what disastrous end we can only imagine.
A great mind tethered to an even greater soul. May we all in our less significant ways do him honor by keeping the flame of liberty and morality alive for posterity. I will miss him and his relish for life as you said.