He shucked and jived for the liberals.

Don Surber takes on National Review.

The headline in National Review read: “Conservatives Should Disavow, Not Embrace, Roy Moore.”

The subheadline explained: “The Republican nominee for Alabama Senate threatens to provide conservatism’s critics with precisely the caricature they crave.”

Well, heaven forbid we should give the enemy “the caricature they crave.”

Let’s just give Democrats another Senate seat instead.

Sure, no problem.

Just let Democrats pick our candidates.

National Review is more worried about a freaking caricature than actual accomplishments.

Moore is a tough conservative jurist who will be a reliable vote to repeal Obamacare, reform taxes, improve the military, and appoint sane judges — all the things that National Review ostensibly supports.

But the reality is National Review itself is more interested in style than substance. The magazine’s staff is quite proud of Bill Buckley fighting Ayn Rand and the John Birch Society.

Liberals laughed at him all the way. Buckley’s purge helped cost Republicans the Senate for 22 years, and the House for 40 years.

During that time all the Great Society programs passed. A half-century later, Medicaid is destroying state budgets as they struggle to raise matching money. No one dares rein in the spending because the hospitals and doctors will scream. You want to know why health care costs $3 trillion a year? Start with Medicaid. And Medicare. There’s a trillion bucks a year right there.

Hero?

Bill Buckley was a zero. Beneath his intellectual facade was a loser. He shucked and jived for the liberals.

Moore isn’t perfect? So what?

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