By GottaLaff
Not bad for a rightie.The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat.Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance. [...]
I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. Earlier this year, I wrote in The New York Times [...] a highly favorable Op-Ed about McCain, taking Rush Limbaugh and the others in the Right Wing Sanhedrin to task for going after McCain for being insufficiently conservative. I don’t—still—doubt that McCain’s instincts remain fundamentally conservative. But the problem is otherwise. [...]
John McCain has changed [...] This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. [...] A once-first class temperament [Laffy Note: Huh?] has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises [...] Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking? [...]
As for Senator Obama: He has exhibited throughout a “first-class temperament” [...]
I’ve read Obama’s books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine. [...]
Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.
So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.
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