Last Friday, conservative Christopher Buckley of the National Review endorsed Barack Obama. This week, following an avalanche of hate mail from National Review readers, Buckley resigned from the publication. It's always interesting to watch "pro-life," "family values" folks threaten someone's life for having the audacity to disagree with them. Not only is the GOP shamefully ethnically homogenous, it seems thinking alike is part of the initiation. It's an interesting kind of politics.
Full story at The Daily Beast:
Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This offer was accepted—rather briskly!—by Rich Lowry, NR’s editor, and its publisher, the superb and able and fine Jack Fowler. I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded, but I will admit to a certain sadness that an act of publishing a reasoned argument for the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal.
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