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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: reasonisfaith
That depends on how old you are. I was paying attention to politics in the 90’s when Noonan’s columns couldn’t be beat. Her article on Clinton’s kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez was cathartic for at least on 23 year old man who was so angry about it he was making a fool of himself (I can admit it now). I think she just got old, and doesn’t want to beleive the left really, absolutely hates us.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB956526736138049046
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03/30/2015 8:33:09 AM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: FrankR
"Foreign relations?"
Having experience in foreign relations is a "gotcha" reserved for Republicans like Sarah Palin. Her mistake was in trying to pass off her meetings with Russian trade delegations as foreign policy experience, which drew sneers from her opponents.
She should have said that most presidents in the last 50 years - including Clinton, Obama, and Carter - have had little or no foreign policy experience prior to becoming president, and that a new president relies on advisors with expertise in the area, not to mention the State Department, the CIA, and other government agencies that have an institutional memory..
To: DiogenesLamp
To: DiogenesLamp
Hillary Clinton was a senator. She was secretary of state. And she was the wife of a President.
Nowhere in her resume is there management experience. And everything she has touched in 30 years have gone to cr*p.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:37:33 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
To: SeekAndFind
Peg’s been dead to me since she attacked Sarah Palin. I stopped reading her and threw out her books.
To: EQAndyBuzz
Hillary Clinton was a senator. She was secretary of state. And she was the wife of a President.Nowhere in her resume is there management experience. And everything she has touched in 30 years have gone to cr*p.
Longer than that.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:49:55 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Ronney/McCain 2016!)
To: SeekAndFind
Noodles is at it again. What she thinks is irrelevant.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:53:48 AM PDT
by
pugmama
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:53:52 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
To: brownsfan
Yes, Margaret always apes the role of brightest and most discerning personage in the Manhattan and DC political salons...loves to wax poetic with her squishy, overly perspicacious gibberish....the female version of George Will, methinks?...both narcissists of their colloquy! Yikes, now I’m sounding like them....
To: HoosierWordsmith
“Yikes, now Im sounding like them....”
It’s ok, to mock them in their own manner is entertaining. Alas, I’m not erudite enough to give that type of derision a good go.
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posted on
03/30/2015 8:59:07 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: SeekAndFind
The mind of a woman is a complicated thing....
To: SeekAndFind
All the "experts" like Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, and a slew of others show that they can't be trusted. Because they don't know nearly as much as they think they do.
Barack Obama's background made it easy for any person with a shred of ability to discern bad actors to quickly see that Obama was just a Marxist clown from academia. And the "experts" couldn't see through him. These people should not be allowed to call themselves conservatives....or journalists.
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posted on
03/30/2015 9:07:17 AM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: SeekAndFind
Peggy Noonan is just interested in getting to parties on the Beltway circuit. She is far removed from everyday Americans.
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posted on
03/30/2015 9:42:18 AM PDT
by
kenmcg
To: SeekAndFind
Peggy, you ignorant.......
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posted on
03/30/2015 9:42:48 AM PDT
by
JPG
(The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
To: SeekAndFind
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! Well, anyone who isn't Muslim Brotherhood should be able to do better than Obama.
But, no, what makes people ignore his "limited" experience is, first, the complete failure of the professional politicians to respond to the obamists. Complete failure.
And secondly, the clarity of Cruz's principled positions.
And, thirdly, if you do a little digging, the guy's resume is pretty impressive. If past is prologue, he is going to be a very good president. Anyone could have known that Obama was going to be a human wrecking ball, and anyone can know that Cruz is going to be a very good president.
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03/30/2015 11:13:37 AM PDT
by
marron
To: demshateGod
But Peggy Noonan is the left.
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posted on
03/30/2015 4:29:09 PM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: SeekAndFind; Lakeshark
Hey Lakeshark,
Looks like SeekAndFind beat us to it.
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posted on
03/30/2015 9:43:34 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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