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?

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.