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stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
6. They've been searching for the illusive next Buckley for a decade now. Still haven't found him.
Thu Nov 23, 2017, 12:33 PM
Nov 2017

I doubt Levin is it either.

The problem is, contemporaneous Republican/Conservative positions and talking points don't lend themselves well to an intelligent argument.

I've debated a few folks who I had previously debated on conservative media in an independent fair forum and it was a bloodbath. I ran all over them. Outside of controlled circumstances, the vast majority of those folks either cant handle a debate or their positions are so ludicrous they can't defend them.

Buckley could handle himself in a fair debate and had positions that didn't sound like they should put him in the looney bin. I dont agree with his positions but that's where he was.

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