Calling Buckley a neocon suggests that the author may not know what a neoconservative is.
Buckley invested much of his personal fortune into NR, so charge him with having been paid to state his opinions is more mistaken than that sort of calumny usually is.
Buckley is also resented by the fringe he removed from the modern conservative movement. Most notable is his repudiation of Birchers, whose leader had developed a doctrine that any leader under whom the soviets advanced was per se a communist. On this basis, they accused Eisenhower of being a communist.
Removing the nutbags from the movement was a prerequisite to its popular affection.
Buckley invested much of his personal fortune into NR, so charge him with having been paid to state his opinions is more mistaken than that sort of calumny usually is.
Buckley is also resented by the fringe he removed from the modern conservative movement. Most notable is his repudiation of Birchers, whose leader had developed a doctrine that any leader under whom the soviets advanced was per se a communist. On this basis, they accused Eisenhower of being a communist.
Removing the nutbags from the movement was a prerequisite to its popular affection.