In a blog post entitled "Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting For Obama" on The Daily Beast Christopher Buckley states that he will vote for Sen. Barack Obama in the upcoming election.  Christopher Buckley is the son of William F. Buckley, conservative author and founder of The National Review.  It will be the first time he has ever voted for a Democrat.  Mr. Buckley made is declaration on The Daily Beast rather than in his regular column on the back page of The National Review after watching extreme hate mails come in by the thousands to Kathleen Parker.  Parker published a scathing editorial critical of the McCain/Palin ticket unleashing an avalanche of angry emails, one which suggested that Kathleen’s mother should have aborted her and tossed the fetus into a dumpster. 

Here are some quotes from Mr. Buckley's post:

John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

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I’ve read Obama’s books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine. He is also a lefty. I am not. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I’m libertarian. I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P.J. O’Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.

Buckley is quick to point out that he remains true to his conservative viewpoint but notice how he does his best to align them with his decision to support Obama.  Hath Hell frozen over?