The son, betrayer of the cause?

William F. Buckely's son was writing for the National Review, which dad founded. He's not anymore. He endorsed Obama last week, which was sort of a major sin for someone spawn from and embraced by the top level conservative types. But he not only knocks McCain, he throws a shot at the convesrvative movement. He feels it's either disappeared or been hijacked.

"While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for," Buckley wrote.

"Eight years of 'conservative' government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case," he also wrote.

The resignation comes four days after Buckley formally endorsed Obama on the Web site The Daily Beast, writing the presidential campaign had made John McCain "inauthentic," and Obama appeared to have a "first-class temperament and first-class intellect."

Curious to see what Jay at Hub Blog has to say about this. He's more into this specific kind of conservative movement stuff than I.