Chris Buckley, Meet the Underside of the Bus

The sinking ship that is conservative movement in America is taking on so much water these days that the wingnuts out on the far, far Right have tossed William F. Buckley's son overboard.

It seems Chris Buckley had the "audacity" to pen a column in which he endorsed the candidacy of Barack Obama.

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.

Well, it was all too much for the crazies at Papa Buckley's magazine, The National Review, to take. Scion Chris, who wrote the Back Page column for many years, was shown the door not encouraged to stay when he tendered an offer to resign.

When he offered his resignation to the magazine’s editors, "I was sort of hoping for, ‘Well, let’s think about it,’ " Buckley said. "But to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me."

They have no sense of perspective. As Chris Buckley said in a follow up piece: "Dear [Dad] once said to me, 'You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.'"