Shh! Christopher Buckley is voting for Obama!

via the Confabulum:

Christopher Buckley, son of William F., and successful novelist, is planning to vote for Barack Obama. His reasons—for Obama, and against McCain—are worth a read, even though he's not exactly the first conservative to have reservations about the McCain-Palin ticket. But the best section, I think, was this:

“As for Kathleen [Parker, who argued against Palin in the National Review], she has to date received 12,000 (quite literally) foam-at-the-mouth hate-emails. One correspondent, if that’s quite the right word, suggested that Kathleen’s mother should have aborted her and tossed the fetus into a Dumpster. There’s Socratic dialogue for you. Dear Pup once said to me sighfully after a right-winger who fancied himself a WFB protégé had said something transcendently and provocatively cretinous, ‘You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.’ Well, the dear man did his best.”