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Posted on 05/04/2009 7:56:16 AM PDT by lewisglad
Like Specter who complained he was "ostracized" for voting for President Obama's disgraceful $787 billion stimulus package -the biggest spending bill in the history of the Republic- Noonan treats his vote for the measure as just another vote.
It's not.
It was, as conservatives saw it, the Mother of All Votes, and it capped a long career of giving the finger to conservatives. That single vote - which among other things erased the landmark Clinton welfare reforms, helped lay the foundation for socialized medicine and expand Leviathan's reach- gave the nation's left a forward momentum that it hasn't had since the days of LBJ.
Mere ostracism is far too mild a punishment for Specter for such a shocking betrayal of his party.
Specter's pissed off and alienated conservatives for decades, and Noonan thinks conservatives should just grin and bear it. She chastises Republicans for "too much ferocity, and bloody-mindedness."
For the record, party apparatchiks bent over backwards to accommodate Specter. Two weeks ago the National Republican Senate Committee backed Specter for reelection in 2010 over Pat Toomey. This was, it's worth noting, even after Specter's vote for the infamous "porkulus" bill.
It was only after Specter saw his abysmal polling numbers that he decided his future was bleak in the Republican Party.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Specter said he made the decision to change parties after the results from one of his own polls came in on April 24. "The most important number was the approval rating - it dropped from the 60s to 31" percent in the last few months, Specter was quoted as saying.
Specter switched parties to save his skin, yet he self-servingly whined in front of reporters about how the GOP supposedly left him and how the Club for Growth picked on him.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Man, we desperately need a “Swoonin’ Noonan” truth file
By doing so you are elevating an absolutely nobody.
Peggy Noonan is weird. What more does one need to know about her?
piggy noonan is just a bitter women clinging to her washington cocktail circuit.....
Oh well. What’re we to do with her posts then? She’s now an open fascist.
He opposed Robert Bork too. He says the GOP left him. That was 20 years prior.
I gave up on Peggy awhile ago, used to enjoy her columns. I do agree that she is worried about being labeled “mean” - but she is old enough to know better.
ding, ding we have a winner!
Noonan is addled. By what, only a psych nurse could offer an informed opinion.
Noonan craves attention, and she has learned that she can get attention by picking on Republicans.
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