Peggy Noonan Still Doesn’t Get It

American Spectator ^ | May 4, 2009 | Matthew Vadum

[vadum]

We didn't need another reason to avoid reading the slippery Peggy Noonan, but she gave us one anyway.

Still in awe of the Dear Leader whose news conference Wednesday night was in her words "a bit of a masterpiece," in her Friday Wall Street Journal column Noonan shows that she has become a captive of liberal conventional wisdom on yet another issue.

Noonan implies that the Republican Party is too conservative and as such it forced liberal Sen. Arlen Specter to defect to the Democrats. Noonan complained that the people inside the party "can't always be kicking people out of the tent. A great party cannot live by constantly subtracting, by removing or shunning those who are not faithful to every aspect of its beliefs, or who don't accept every pole, or who are just barely fitting under the tent," she wrote. "Room should be made for them. Especially in those cases when Republican incumbents and candidates are attempting to succeed in increasingly liberal states, a certain practical sympathy is in order."

If only the party had kicked some people out of the tent years ago, but I digress.

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[Mojave]

"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers."

-- Ronald Reagan

[PhilDragoo]

"The party has changed so much since I was elected in 1980," he said.

I found Peggy Noonan didn't get it a decade ago either. I read four women on the Clintons: Barbara Olson, Joyce Milton, Laura Ingraham, Peggy Noonan. Noonan struck me as one who couldn't pass a drug test.

She could have dismissed Clinton as a Saul Alinsky-adoring, rapist-enabling, body-counting soulless ambitionist--but wafted off into vaporous nebulosity.

Now Noonan chastises us for not embracing the unembraceable, the Specter who enables Hussein.

Having perverted truth with the Magic Bullet, outraged justice with the protection of Ira Einhorn, kissed traitor-rapist42's butt with Scottish Law, Benedict Arlen now comes out of the closet for the greatest political pork roast in the history of the Republic, planting a big wet kiss on both bony butt cheeks of the Islamo-Commie Kenyan usurper.

And for this Noonan wants an extension to the Republican tent.

What's the dosage of gin and rohypnol required to find Hussein and Specter attractive?

What is Noonan's particular fetish, the ritual murder of millions of babies or the embrace of Sharia's enslavement of women implicit in the ring-kiss of the Saudi king?

By what psychotic funhouse mirror is Peggy Noonan a Republican, the party which places particular reverence on human life, individual freedom, minimal government, free market prosperity, traditional values, Christian heritage. . . .

Is she in it for the cocktail party circuit access--or to catch a glimpse of her heartthrob the Master of Opacity.

[Darkwolf377]

Specter left because he didn’t want to make room for what the majority of the party wants. I don’t know how that means the rest of us have to be more inclusive.

[4rcane]

its the voters that want to kick Specter out, or does Peggy has contempt for the little ppl?

[sinanju]

It has been pointed out that she rarely leaves her upper-Eastside Manhattan neighborhood these days.

Her surroundings and the company she keeps can’t help but affect her worldview.

Gotta keep those Park Avenue cocktail party invites coming, y’know.

[snarks_when_bored]

Peggy Noonan Still Doesn’t Get It

I'm embarrassed for Peggy Noonan. Such Obama-swooning ill-becomes a mature professional woman.

[ZULU]

She must be off her meds again.

[donaldo]

Agreed. One expects liberal sycophants to kiss Obama’s ass and to perform his ablutions. But conservatives? Enough already! Obama should be ridiculed relentlessly for he is nothing more than a media created fraud. I’ve yet to hear him say a single thing that’s risen above the level of the banal and mediocre. He is the personification of the word cliche; a pretentious, preening windbag with millions of moronic servile supplicants doing his bidding. Disgusting.

[SupplySider]

Kudos for your “colorful” and accurate post.

[Maine Mariner]

“Noonan implies that the Republican Party is too conservative and as such it forced liberal Sen. Arlen Specter to defect to the Democrats. Noonan complained that the people inside the party “can’t always be kicking people out of the tent. A great party cannot live by constantly subtracting, by removing or shunning those who are not faithful to every aspect of its beliefs, . . .”

No one is suggesting that the Republican party remove people who don’t agree on everything. I am sure there is not 100% agreement on every issue by FREEPERS. But there is a set of core beliefs that identify our group (Jim’s comments on several recent posts have outlined them rather nicely). So when you vote for the stimulus package that includes hundreds of millions of dollars for Acorn-it is time to leave the Republican Party.

[prismsinc]

Noonan is a fascist. If there’s history there, then we need a “Swoonin’ Noonan” truth file

[Carley]

Peggy, put down the booze and get yourself to AA

[CholeraJoe]

Not everyone who needs AA wants it, and you have to want it for it to work.

[Spok]

The constant chant to move the Republican Party to the left (and don’t let anyone fool you, that’s exactly what they’re talking about) is the Democrats’ and the MSM’s (excuse the redundancy) effort to drive what they perceive as the last wooden stake through the heart of the opposition. They won’t be satisfied until there is no national party that will stand up for individual rights, freedom of speech or Christianity. Facism is their ultimate goal, and those in opposition will be seduced, cajoled, threatened and eventually forced into acceptance. They see total victory in their grasp and the more Republicans who abandon their fundamentals the more likely they are to achieve it.

[truthandlife]

Peggy, thank you again for revealing your true colors. I am sure you are getting invited to many more elite parties now.

EVERYONE WHO HAS A WALL STREET SUBSCRIPTION SHOULD WRITE THEM TO GET HER COLUMN DROPPED

[truthandlife]

If you want to write the editors of the WSJ to tell them to drop Noonan’s column, here you go:

Alan Murray
Executive Editor
a.murray@wsj.com

Almar Latour
Managing Editor
a.latour@wsj.com

Dave Pettit
Deputy Managing Editor
d.pettit@wsj.com

Darren McDermott
Senior Editor
darren.mcdermott@wsj.com

[Broker]

Peggy Knewnone’s article is instructive. WSJ readers are bright enough to read and comprehend her words. This reader now more clearly understands the problem with that big tent and the price we pay for tolerence with the Republican leadership. She simply defined the problem and confessed her ignorance. The WSJ did us all a BIG favor with that display and I hope they continue to do so........

[y6162]

“who are just barely fitting under the tent,” she wrote”

After a long list of insults, voting for the generation theft act was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Pa voters get to pick, not MSNBC talking heads.