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Peggy Noonan, Elitist Snob
Axis of Right ^ | 7/11/2009 | Sal

Posted on 07/11/2009 4:56:45 PM PDT by SalAOR

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To: ken21

I decided to not renew my WSJ subscription after their coverage of the Bush bailout last year, it reeked of bias
(house republicans would kill America and the Democrats were here to save us from Wall Street).

I stopped paying attention to Noonan after she wrote an editorial called “A Thinking Man’s Speech” or whatever its name was. It was her take on 0’s attempt to justify his “pastor’s” racism. It was filled with one inefectual praising another inefectual about the latest and greatest in non-useful ideas that if implemented strangle economies and countries.


21 posted on 07/11/2009 5:57:57 PM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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To: ken21
i saw this article this morning and decided that i may not renew my wsj.

Add to that the WSJ's position of open borders in a welfare state.

Pure insanity.

22 posted on 07/11/2009 6:01:33 PM PDT by RJL
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To: TexasBud
Peggy swooned at the sight of the Senator who phoned it in after a mere 2 years, but cashed his check anyway, while he ran for President. And what a fine job he's doing.

Peggy still seems fine with her choice so how can she be taken seriously?

23 posted on 07/11/2009 6:03:44 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: TexasBud

Yeah, you betcha...and they said the same about Margaret Thatcher.


24 posted on 07/11/2009 6:05:07 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: TexasBud
McCain might’ve lost, anyway, but he’d have had a shot if he’d named a serious VP who could’ve been President, if necessary (like Romney, just to pick a name...Romney, incidentally, would’ve won the ticket for the Republicans, I believe, because as it turns out...the economy became the big issue, and that was Romney’s strong point).

Massachusetts Romneycare government health care is a huge success, just ask him. No Thanks!

25 posted on 07/11/2009 6:05:32 PM PDT by RJL
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To: sinanju

The country club Republicans HATE Sarah and everyone who likes her.


26 posted on 07/11/2009 6:08:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: silverleaf

PDS is right up there with PMS.

Ducking now.


27 posted on 07/11/2009 6:09:01 PM PDT by gigster
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To: TexasBud

Palin “quitting” as governor was probably the right move to make (at least for Alaska). Various left-wing groups filed ethics complaint after ethics complaint. This led to the state wasting huge amounts of money investigating them. In addition she had to pay out of pocket to fight them, running her attorney’s bill up. Further she had become estranged from state democrats after the 08 election when the national party order defeat her at all costs. This led to a problem with the legislature, she wasn’t able to work at all with them. As for her quitting as councilwoman, that was so she could be mayor, and I believe she quit as mayor in order to serve on the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission, which she resigned from in protest of a sticky ethics scandal.

As for her never solving a financial crisis, has she faced one?

And the attack on Palin(by Noonan) of Palin not being “read” or a “thoughtful” person, thrust of her argument: Most of our presidents who have been thoughtful people have been failures and done such tremendous harm in their pursuit of some ideal that we are still experiencing problems today based on those decisions.


28 posted on 07/11/2009 6:16:42 PM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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To: sinanju
What bothers Peggy is seeing herself in Palin Far from her supposed elitist roots Noonan hails from that intellectual center of Easr Rutherford NJ, before it dould claim Giants Stadium. She went from East Rutherford HS, not to Yale or Vassar, but to Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Known to one and all as Fairleigh Ridiculous. ( The intellectual quality of FDU was satirized in a memorable line from Michael Pare as Eddie in Eddie and The Cruisers.)

Unlike Palin who travelled afar, albeit in the US, when attending college, Peggy grew up in the shadows of Manhattan and with IMO an overwhelming desire to be part of that scene. Now as she sees herself surrounded by the deviants at MSNBC she lashes out at a woman heading into territory she had staked out for herself.

29 posted on 07/11/2009 6:24:27 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: SalAOR

Dear Peggy,
When you read this, and I know you will, think carefully...

Everything in the article is right on. Dead on.

Plus, of course, you are aging rapidly and searching
for some reason to be significant.

Best,
ampu


30 posted on 07/11/2009 6:26:40 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Wife of D

THAT’S IT! I for one will raise the issue that Noonan has lost her ability to WRITE!

I agree with your post except for...

“Sure, she has some ability to put words and sentences together,”

Noonan has lost her writing ability. Most of her articles wouldn’t pass a 7th grade English teacher’s basics of writing...at times she is totally unreadable.


31 posted on 07/11/2009 6:31:04 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: xkaydet65
.....she lashes out at a woman heading into territory she had staked out for herself.


32 posted on 07/11/2009 6:36:17 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin: Iron Lady of the North)
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To: TexasBud

You bring up some valid points in your post..well written and thought out.

Krauthammer said early on, Palin needs to take the two years to read, study and “catch up”. there are huge gaps in her knowledge of the world, etc. I think she would be good on economics cause she did a good job in Alaska. I don’t think if we had Jesus running against Obozo, the masses would have voted for Jesus.

BTW, there is much i really like about palin, but she is not ready. Nor do i like romney.


33 posted on 07/11/2009 6:37:21 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
BTW, there is much i really like about palin, but she is not ready. Nor do i like romney.

Nonsense. She's the next best thing since Dick Cheney. The Dems are pathetic and the rest of the GOP field is a joke.


34 posted on 07/11/2009 6:43:22 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin: Iron Lady of the North)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

I agree on her strengths, but she does need to “catch up”...those interviews she did, even if they were a set up won’t get with independents.


35 posted on 07/11/2009 6:45:18 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: SalAOR

When W first got elected as President Peggy seemed to have a big crush on him. It was embarrassing. Then she went sour and started writing spiteful articles about him - maybe because he failed to give her a speechwriter job. She’s gotten sourer and sourer ever since and the latest object of her venom is Sarah Palin.


36 posted on 07/11/2009 6:50:13 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: Uncle Miltie
Peggy creams her panties for 0bummer.

I think she started going bad when she lost the ability to do as you claim. Nothing against post-menopausal women (I am married to one), but Peggy lost her mind when her sexual desires started to wane. I imagine she and her fellow New York City shrews have "issues" that they displace onto the lovely Ms. Palin.

37 posted on 07/11/2009 7:18:01 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: TexasBud
She quit as mayor. She quit as a councilwoman. She quit as governor.

BS. She "quit" as councilwoman because she was elected mayor. And I see no evidence whatsoever that she quit as mayor. Looks to me like she was term-limited out after her second term.

38 posted on 07/11/2009 7:27:34 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: SalAOR

Noonan is one who spends all her time running away from her greatest fear (that of being foolish) only to run smack into it again and again.


39 posted on 07/11/2009 7:37:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Liberals have neither the creativity nor the confidence to understand the truth of conservatism)
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To: TexasBud

“stating the obvious”

But the “obvious” has no concrete support. Doesn’t it kind of get under your skin that you’re unable to figure out how to explain your argument?


40 posted on 07/11/2009 7:46:15 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Liberals have neither the creativity nor the confidence to understand the truth of conservatism)
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