re: #199 Myron Falwell

Believe it or not! Joe Bacon said it a few comments above; Buckley hated Lowell Weicker so he publicly endorsed and campaigned for Lieberman.

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nytimes.com

William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative Republican editor and pundit, announced the formation of a political action committee to oppose the re-election of Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a liberal Republican.

And oh, yes, BuckPac, as the committee is to be called, will support instead the state’s Attorney General, Joseph I. Lieberman, who is Mr. Weicker’s Democratic challenger.
”You’re telling us that the Buckleys are with us?” asked Marla Romash, the Lieberman campaign press secretary. That seemed to take her by surprise. ”Can I get back to you?”

Mr. Buckley said he had ”always voted the straight Republican ticket in the past,” but that he could abide Mr. Weicker no longer. An Animadversion About ‘Pomposity’
”His pomposity and tergiversations on every issue make his running as a Republican an anomaly we ought to correct,” Mr. Buckley said in a telephone interview from his home in Sharon, Conn.