You're the fanatic. Just because we don't carry pom poms for everything Buckley or Reagan ever did or said, does not mean we "reject" them. It appears, unlike you, we are thinking people who don't follow and support people when we don't agree with them.
"The only time I was wrong was the time I thought I was wrong."
I stated that I would not post further on this topic/thread but I felt compelled to make one follow-up. This statement in quotes, of all the predictably vituperative, subtly insulting, defensive, personal remarks in response to my last post, was the most poignant and revealing. NOT ONE MENTION OF THE NATION OR ITS BEST INTERESTS - every single response was in defense of someone's ego or abstract "principles" which you are protecting like a 'Raptor protects its eggs.
I have no doubt whatsoever that Buckley would have followed his own rule, you may be assured. The opinions of the asinine traitorous lunatics who now run the magazine that follows his namesake notwithstanding. Standing on principles, eh? All of your "principles" boil down to this - you are using personal distaste for someone to allow you to fall back on a doctrinaire position where you abnegate your responsibility to exercise your franchise and contribute your few electrons to the current that will eventually light up one candidate as the winner or go to ground and allow the other candidate - a monstrous leftist piglet of the worst description, to gain more voltage and light up.
At least Hill-O-lies voters are actually telling themselves the truth - that they are voting for her. You lovely people are all telling yourselves that you are "standing on principles" when all you are doing in reality is helping to enable the election of Hill-O-Lies and lying to yourselves about it. Brilliant!!
I admit to being a fanatic - I am a fanatic about helping and defending the best interests of the United States of America, even if it means taking some risk on a questionable candidate to avoid one who is beyond all question a walking nightmare without peer.
"It is impossible for one to conceive of any morality superior to one's own." CG Jung
Call me whatever you like, but I will be thinking not of defending my ego or my "ideological purity" I will be thinking of how to defend the best interests of this nation by taking action - not coming up with some intellectualized excuse for sitting on my thumbs.