William F. Buckley Dead at 82

It is too bad that the conservative movement doesn't have these kind of erudite intellectuals as their public face anymore. Now they have Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter who are all very smart and accomplished but they are not intellectuals like Buckley.

It would be so nice to see someone like Buckley debating someone far-left liberal like Sean Penn. It would be like watching a Kodiak Bear fighting a baby. If it was the current faces of the Conservative movement debating Penn then it would probably decend into a shouting match in 5 minutes. I think this quote sums him up in a nutshell:

"Mr. Buckley," one non-fan wrote in 1967, "you are the mouthpiece of
that evil rabble that depends on fraud, perjury, dirty tricks, anything at all
that suits their purposes. I would trust a snake before I would trust you or
anybody you support."

Responded Buckley: "What would you do if I supported the
snake?"