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Peggy Noonan, Then and Now: Notice her reaction to 2 first-time senators running for President
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| 03/29/2015
| Ed Driscoll
Posted on 03/30/2015 7:52:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Past performance is no guarantee of future results:
Mr. Cruz knows his reputation as the angry, surly face of the dark side of conservatism. Hes the government-shutdown artist*, the living answer to the question What if Joe McCarthy went to Harvard Law? He says its a caricature.**
He once noted to me in conversation that when people on TV call him angry and snarling, they never show video to illustrate the point. He says there is no angry, snarling video because he isnt angry and doesnt snarl. He never throws mud, he says, and wont. He sees himself as a happy warrior.
I dont think the snarling image thing is his main problem. He has two others.
One is much remarked upon. He is 44 and a first-term senator. He entered the national stage less than three years ago, though it seems like longer because he made himself so famous so fast. He talks about Reagan, but Reagan in 1980 had been a union president, two-term governor of a huge state, candidate for the GOP nomination in 1976, and longtime leader of modern conservatism. He had been an executive; he had run things; his accomplishments could be measured.
Mr. Cruz here is not like Reagan. Hes like a first-term senator named Barack Obama, 45 when he announced.
This prompts a major 2016 question: Did Mr. Obama permanently lower the bar? Did his winning and holding the presidency with such limited experience, and his governing in many eyes so unsuccessfully, leave a whole generation of politicians thinking I can do that! and Even I can do better than that! Or, after Mr. Obama, will there be among Republicans voters a hunger for deeper biography? Is the country in the mood for more on-the-job presidential training?
I don’t know — some Washington insiders see first-term senators engaging in seemingly quixotic presidential bids as awfully inspirational, even in-spite of the on-the-job presidential training they might eventually require:
He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice.
“The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes,” Peggy Noonan, October 31, 2008.
Oh and by the way, “Nearly two-thirds of Iowa Republican insiders believe Cruz can win the caucuses,” Politico’s James Hohmann writes, after first declaring Cruz “unelectable.” As NewsBusters’ P.J. Gladnick quips, “After you switch to a more highly caffeinated coffee to make you aware of what you later write, Hohmann, you might want to hit a highly fortified bottle of bourbon to make yourself forget how laughably you completely contradict yourself.”
*Yeah, that government shutdown sure worked out terribly for the GOP.
** But one that Noonan herself is willing to pander to. That’s really a cheap shot from someone who once held herself out as a conservative.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; demagogicparty; election2016; memebuilding; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; peggynoonan; tedcruz; texas
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To: SeekAndFind
Peggy Noonan jumped the shark in 2008. I have since ceased to care what she thinks about anything.
To: SeekAndFind
"he (Obama) shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, LOL. How did that work out for him as President, Peg?
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posted on
03/30/2015 7:58:14 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
To: SeekAndFind
How it ever came to be that Peggy Noonan is privileged to voice public comments is a total mystery.
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posted on
03/30/2015 7:58:22 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: SeekAndFind
Have another vodka and soda, Peggy.
To: DiogenesLamp
I wouldn’t even mind angry and snarling. I wish every conservative was angry or at least indignant.
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posted on
03/30/2015 7:59:55 AM PDT
by
Maurice Tift
(Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
To: SeekAndFind
angry, surly face of the dark side of conservatism
WHAT?
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:03:22 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: DiogenesLamp
Peggy WHO?
Who cares what she does, thinks, or says.
I read her fawning 2008 POS on Obama. With that she should go retire and keep her mouth shut.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:04:05 AM PDT
by
LeonardFMason
(LanceyHoward would AGREE)
To: SeekAndFind
Peggy Noonan reeks of self satisfaction. I used to see her on Morning Joe, (I no longer watch that clown show), and Noonan’s entire being, mannerisms, voice tone and inflection, all just oozed of a complete love of her own opinion.
Peggy Noonan isn’t as smart as she thinks she is, because no one is that smart! Noonan will say and write, whatever she thinks makes her sound smart, and ingratiates her with the inside the beltway crowd.
She is useless, unprincipled and offensive.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:04:36 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: SeekAndFind
He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice. You realize she got all that only because o can read a teleprompter..I knew it was stupid then..I hope peggy can see that she was duped..
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:07:17 AM PDT
by
BerniesFriend
(Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
To: SeekAndFind
Has David Brooks weighed in yet on the crease of Cruz’ pants?
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:09:42 AM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: SeekAndFind
This prompts a major 2016 question: Did Mr. Obama permanently lower the bar?Why don't you answer your own question Peggy, since you voted for him.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:10:11 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: SeekAndFind
"Mr. Cruz knows his reputation as the angry, surly face of the dark side of conservatism. Hes the government-shutdown artist*, the living answer to the question What if Joe McCarthy went to Harvard Law? He says its a caricature."
It IS a caricature. I have seen Cruz on television a number of times, and have never seen him "angry" or "surly-faced." Even when asked about his critics, he remains pleasant. Way more pleasant than Obama, who bristles at any mention of criticism. And the comparison to Joe McCarthy is not even a caricature, it's a flat-out smear.
To: BerniesFriend
"He took down a political machine without raising his voice."
You can be arrogant, peevish, a bully, and a liar without raising your voice. And Obama is all of the above.
To: brownsfan
"Noonan will say and write, whatever she thinks makes her sound smart, and ingratiates her with the inside the beltway crowd."
I think you nailed it.
To: BerniesFriend
"He took down a political machine without raising his voice."
It's not that hard when you've got the press kissing your butt (Obama) instead of snapping at your heels (Cruz). Actually, what's happening to Cruz is more like crossfire triangulation, i.e., character assassination.
To: SeekAndFind
One is much remarked upon. He is 44 and a first-term senator. I suppose it's rude to point out that Saint John Kennedy of MA was 43 when he ran for President.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:23:22 AM PDT
by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
To: SeekAndFind
With the possible exception of a sitting president being re-elected, where, exactly does one go to have “experience” at being the president?
Foreign relations? If the president follows his oath to protect America, then foreign policy is set! I refer you to 1979’ as soon as Reagan was elected, Iran released the hostages. He lobbed a missile into ghadaffis window, and went silent for years.
“Peace through strength” is all that is need to keep the wolves away.
Noonan is an excuse looking for a problem.
Obama - who believes “America” is the problem with the world, has done more damage to foreign relations than any other president ever did.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:24:54 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
To: SeekAndFind
After he was elected, Obama’s idea of “compromise” was to say “I won” and suggest that Republicans “take a seat at the back of the bus.” What [lack of] class, and the moronic Noonan falls for that crap.
To: SeekAndFind
America needs a leader.
Cruz 2016
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:27:21 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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