Gore Vidal vs. William F. Buckley, Jr.

Candidates don't debate anymore, they scuttle and not in T.S. Eliot fashion--that suggests, in its proto-Christian imagery, of at least the possibility of some greater glory--but in the true mind numbing, belly scratching, touching bottom futility that now passes for the body politic.

When I said to Spencer this morning, "how could anyone in their right mind be Republican," he said, "or Democrat."