“I wrote a posting — I guess they’re called,” says neophyte blogger and newly discharged National Review columnist Christopher Buckley, describing the first step in a process that began with his confession, on The Daily Beast, that he was breaking with the GOP to vote for Barack Obama, and ended with his resignation from the conservative magazine his father founded.

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