Posted on 07/11/2009 4:56:45 PM PDT by SalAOR
I used to be a big fan of Peggy Noonan. I thought that her columns were thoughtful, eloquant, and had a way with the English language. Her seeming understanding of the world and of Conservatism was always enjoyable, and I looked forward to her weekly columns.
All of that started to change after the 2004 election. While still writing good columns, she seemed off her game. As the 2008 campaign heated up last fall, she started to show tendencies of elitism, denigrating Sarah Palin and swooning over Barack Obama. Now, in her latest column, she viciously attacks Sarah Palin, calling her a “very nice middle class girl with ambition” who “wasn’t thoughtful enough to know that she wasn’t thoughtful.” Noonan goes on to claim that Palin was “not ready for national politics, and never would be.”
Noonan appears to know everything about Sarah Palin, and assumes from that fact that Palin is a bimbo with no brain. Her article is dripping with condescension, and claims that Palin was a product of the Republican elite. Rather, it is the Republican elite who is against her, and who thwarted her.
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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.
Add to that the WSJ's position of open borders in a welfare state.
Pure insanity.
Peggy still seems fine with her choice so how can she be taken seriously?
Yeah, you betcha...and they said the same about Margaret Thatcher.
Massachusetts Romneycare government health care is a huge success, just ask him. No Thanks!
The country club Republicans HATE Sarah and everyone who likes her.
PDS is right up there with PMS.
Ducking now.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Nonsense. She's the next best thing since Dick Cheney. The Dems are pathetic and the rest of the GOP field is a joke.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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?
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