This is a follow up to my post several weeks ago about Bill Buckley's 80th Birthday. George Will writes about what fun it was to be a Buckley disciples in the old days. Will writes: " Those who were not young 40 years ago, in 1965, can have no inkling of what fun it was to be among Buckley's disciples as he ran for mayor ....... conservatives, happy days were here again.
Back then, espousing conservatism was regarded by polite society, then soggy with that era's barely challenged liberalism, as a species of naughtiness, not nice but also not serious. Buckley, representing New York's Conservative Party, which was just three years old, won 13 percent of the vote. When the winner, John Lindsay, limped discredited from office eight years later, Bill's brother Jim had been elected, on the Conservative line, U.S. senator from New York. For the rest of George Will's column click on the title above for a link. Also check out my November 7th post below.
