Earlier this week, Christopher Buckley (son of conservative William F Buckley) also supported Obama:
The post's title: ""Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama"... and later: "It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance."
He then resigned from the National Review, which was founded by his illustrious father, even as voices on the right summarily executed him for besmirching his father's name. In his own words:
As for the mail flooding into National Review Online—that's been running about, oh, 700-to-1 against. In fact, the only thing the Right can't quite decide is whether I should be boiled in oil or just put up against the wall and shot. Lethal injection would be too painless.
And though Christopher Hitchens is not a conservative, despite having moved towards the right from his leftist days at the Nation, he thinks come November, his vote is going to Obama because "McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace." That about says it all but let me also point you to Peggy Noonan's great piece in the WSJ this weekend - Palin's Failin' (note the dropped g ;)). (Here's what Peggy had written earlier about Palin - the possible "transformative political presence"; though this is what she really thought back then too.)
Leave you with a NYT op-ed piece this weekend that talks about Unease in the Conservative Commentariat
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