Buckley Resigns National Review Column Over Obama Endorsement

Writer Christopher Buckley has resigned from National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father, William F. Buckley, Jr., after announcing that he planned to vote for Barack Obama.

After writing in the web startup “The Daily Beast” that he would vote for Obama, scores of letters poured into National Review, where Buckley writes a pack-page column, criticizing the libertarian writer for his endorsement, prompting his resignation offer to the magazine’s editors.

“Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands,” Buckley wrote in a followup post for the site. He said he offered his resignation the following morning, which was accepted “rather briskly” by the magazine’s editor and publisher.

“I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded, but I will admit to a certain sadness that an act of publishing a reasoned argument for the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal,” Buckley wrote. “So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven