Libertarians for Ron Paul

Bill Buckley Is Dead. Has Conservatism Died with Him?

William F. Buckley,Jr died yesterday, at the age of 81. He devoted much of his life to creating a conservative movement committed to limited government and individual freedom. David Boaz of The Cato Institute reflects on Buckley’s movement, and how modern conservatives have become cheerleaders  for big government: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9245

Mr Boaz notes that “Bill Buckley had come to recognize the degraded state of American conservatism. In 2006, he deplored Bush’s “absence of effective conservative ideology — with the result that he ended up being very extravagant in domestic spending.” And he noted the failure of Bush’s expansive, interventionist foreign policy.”