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I yearn for the days when an intellectual elite represented conservative thought. (Oh, where have you gone William F. Buckley Jr? The NYTimes obituary for him began: ...polysyllabic exuberance, famously arched eyebrows and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of American political discourse....) Buckley surely was even more elite than the liberal elite about whom the sorrowful right rails against today. Perhaps I should read Buckleys 1951 book God and Man at Yale. Thats what contemporary conservatives lack now: an elitist of a perspicacious mind.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:10:28 +0000

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