The (Other) Buckley Rule

With so many of the Republican pundits throwing around William F. Buckley’s dictum that they should support the most conservative, electable candidate, implying that recent Tea Party victories are impractical for the party and the movement, take a look at this:

Senator James Buckley, brother of WFB, declares America on the verge…

I believe that the country we love and its institutions are now in critical danger. I believe the next very few years will tell whether we succeed in restoring America to its constitutional roots or whether we slip irretrievably into the suffocating embrace of the all-caring state and all that implies. It will take all of the energy in the American conservative movement to ensure that the last will not be our fate. [emphasis added]

What good does a liberal Republican do the country?  These primaries show that people are on to the Big Government agenda common to both parties, but prevalent in the Marxist Democrats running the White House and Congress.  If not stopped soon, the welfare state will consume the civil society.  We will live not for our own happiness, but at the pleasure of the government.  When sick, our treatment will depend not on the ability of doctors, but whether or not we fit into a budgetary schema.  We would be perpetually dispossessed of more and more of our income until finally we work utterly and completely for our political masters.

This would mark the end of the American experiment and verify the null hypothesis: that a government of the people, by the people, for the people, had perished from the earth by their own votes.

Next time you hear a Rove or a Republican Party official claim that a candidate is too conservative, tell him that Sen. James Buckley, who has seen and done more than they, strongly disagrees.

It's the end of the post, now what?

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