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Article: Conservative circles may lose pride under Bush, Buckley says; The "Firing Line" host told a Minneapolis crowd that "conservatism is tough-minded, and we ought not to shrink from" that.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2000
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The conservative movement is losing its pride and its toughness and is at some risk, under the leadership of George W. Bush, of becoming a "smoochy" imitation of liberalism, William F. Buckley told an appreciative banquet hall full of conservatives in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening.
He said that the Texas governor's desire to be known as a "compassionate conservative" - as if there is something wrong and mean about regular conservatism - makes him fear the rise of a new breed of conservatism that is "a little bit frightened of its own imperatives."
Author, columnist, editor of National Review magazine, host for 30 years of the debate program "Firing ...