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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

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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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: elitism; palin; peggynoonan; sarahpalin
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To: TexasBud
Actually, no, they didn’t. Margaret Thatcher was well educated, politically savvy, hard as nails, serious, well spoken, and extremely knowledgeable. No, no one said she couldn’t handle the job.

Plenty said she couldn't handle the job. Just not enough to stop her election.

Yet your hero Bums detractors were correct in his inability to handle the job!

Hope you enjoy your crap sandwich as it goes down!

61 posted on 12/21/2009 7:01:31 PM PST by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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To: SalAOR
Does anyone else remember when it was the Right that was about "elitism" (ie excellence) and standards, and the Left was the bastion of retarded populism?

Anybody who believes in the "will of the common people" in a country where 50% have IQs lower than 100, and where religious and racial diversity mitigate against massification anyway is NOT a rightist/conservative by any means.

62 posted on 12/21/2009 7:04:07 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: TexasBud; darkwing104

IBT Obama voter Zot!


63 posted on 12/21/2009 7:08:41 PM PST by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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To: SalAOR
The “rightwing” punditry have always been bigoted.
64 posted on 12/21/2009 7:11:30 PM PST by roses of sharon (This is a feral government, broken from the civilizing constraints of the Constitution.)
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To: sausageseller

Why do longtime freepers who compliment Rudy always get zotted, and not so for obvious trolls?

I always wondered that.


65 posted on 12/21/2009 7:15:44 PM PST by roses of sharon (This is a feral government, broken from the civilizing constraints of the Constitution.)
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To: SalAOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOc39OR41jg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yryg5Swm5g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTnnKuNXUNE


66 posted on 12/21/2009 7:18:28 PM PST by oiler (Reagan Republicans Unite!!!!! It's the Constitution Stupid. Palin and Bachmann in 2012)
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To: TexasBud
I crossed over and voted for Obama, when McCain picked Palin as his VP choice.

Why are you here?

67 posted on 12/21/2009 7:27:15 PM PST by Sally'sConcerns (I'M A TAGLINE!)
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To: TexasBud
"Palin will never be in the White House."

HAhahahaha!

Never say never, dumb@ss. (doing my best Walter impression)

How's the weather back in DUmmieLand, btw?

68 posted on 12/21/2009 7:43:34 PM PST by XenaLee
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To: TexasBud

You’re not too bright are you?


69 posted on 12/22/2009 11:27:52 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (Lock & Load......Point & Click)
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To: sausageseller

Just calling out....please re-read my prior posts. You won’t find any juvenile name calling and tone of hatred.

That’d be only in your and other posts.

If you want to be taken seriously, you gotta act (and talk) like a grownup. (Your mama wears army boots! doesn’t cut it over the age of 8.)


70 posted on 08/04/2011 6:49:56 PM PDT by TexasBud
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