Calista plays a Conservative

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 2:43pm

With Jon Robin Baitz writing. And I thought tv couldn't get any funnier.

Mr. Baitz, if you are reading this post please review your "Conservative" history. During Eisenhower's heyday, people like Buckley thought Ike was too liberal.
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[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 2:50pm

Buh-buh-but Calista...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 2:51pm

And nowadays conservatives like Buckley think that Bush is a complete and utter failure as a president:


"I think Mr. Bush faces a singular problem best defined, I think, as the absence of effective conservative ideology — with the result that he ended up being very extravagant in domestic spending, extremely tolerant of excesses by Congress," Buckley says. "And in respect of foreign policy, incapable of bringing together such forces as apparently were necessary to conclude the Iraq challenge."

Asked what President Bush's foreign policy legacy will be to his successor, Buckley says "There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush. I don't believe his successor would re-enunciate the words he used in his second inaugural address because they were too ambitious. So therefore I think his legacy is indecipherable"
Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 2:53pm

"And nowadays conservatives like Buckley"

Actually Buckley considers himself a Libertarian.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:24pm

You know how people ask "Who is one person, dead or alive, you would want to have dinner with?"

My answer was always Ike. Well, it changed from Ike to Speaker Sam, depending on the mood.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:37pm

As always, Goth, you are avoiding the point. As founder of the leading American CONSERVATIVE journal, the National Review, as a political associate of BARRY GOLDWATER and RONALD REAGAN, as a lifelong ANTI-COMMUNIST, William F. Buckley is considered one of the country's foremost conservatives.

And he thinks that George W. Bush is a failure. And a fraud as a conservative.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:38pm

Goth, look, it's The Rapture! Go into the light!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:39pm

Oh PJ -- you are preachin' to the choir!

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:44pm

I saw a commercial for this show and got all excited because I thought Calista was back with Dan Futterman in a project---but I was mistaking another actor for Futterman (at least according to IMDB). They didn't get enough scenes together in BIRDCAGE and I think their timing would really play well off each other. Oh well.

Was there something political I missed?!?!? Love me some Baitz as a playwright.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:16pm

this is a blatant attempt on the life of ann coulter. by casting calista "i make lara flynn boyle look like jabba the hutt after he quit caring" flockhart as a conservative commentator, they are obviously playing a dangerous game of chicken. the more ads ann sees of calista, the more ann will struggle to out-thin her. it's akin to a an arms race in reverse and is devious in its cunning. mark my words, if the show lasts a full season coulter will end up in a hospital looking like jack skellington's skinny sister.

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:24pm

i'm actually kinda excited