Posted on 11/05/2010 1:11:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Peggy Noonan has never much cared for Sarah Palin. In 2008, she deemed Palin's presence on the Republican ticket "political bullsh*t," and later noted the former Alaska governor seemed "out of her depth in a shallow pool" during the campaign. Now Palin has riled her again, with her observation on Fox News that Ronald Reagan was "an actor" before becoming president. Needless to say, this isn't sitting well with Noonan, who so eloquently praised Reagan's feet in What I Saw At The Revolution ("It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines. But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe even a little...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads..."). In her Wall Street Journal column today, Noonan makes it clear she feels no such affection for Palin, or her tootsies.
Excuse me, but this was ignorant even for Mrs. Palin. Reagan people quietly flipped their lids, but I'll voice their consternation to make a larger point. Ronald Reagan was an artist who willed himself into leadership as president of a major American labor union (Screen Actors Guild, seven terms, 1947-59.) He led that union successfully through major upheavals (the Hollywood communist wars, labor-management struggles); discovered and honed his ability to speak persuasively by talking to workers on the line at General Electric for eight years; was elected to and completed two full terms as governor of California; challenged and almost unseated an incumbent president of his own party; and went on to popularize modern conservative political philosophy without the help of a conservative infrastructure. Then he was elected president.
The point is not "He was a great man and you are a nincompoop," though that is true. The point is that Reagan's career is a guide, not only for the tea party but for all in politics. He brought his fully mature, fully seasoned self into politics with him. He wasn't in search of a life when he ran for office, and he wasn't in search of fame; he'd already lived a life, he was already well known, he'd accomplished things in the world.
Yes, she is 100% RINO. Actually, I’m not even sure she is R anymore to any degree. I loved her first book about her work in the Reagan Admin. Now I find it impossible to believe she worked for Reagan, let alone admired him. She’s very disappointing and I don’t even bother to read her columns anymore b/c she is only writing for her NY cocktail party crowd.
LOL. Good point. :)
Go away Peggy!!!
Peggy is one of the elites.
Just ask her bestest friend: T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII, or Coddsie Septus for short.
That is the funniest thing IowaHawk ever did, and that’s aying something! Each new installment has me rolling on the floor!
A marginal writer in search of an editor....
I worked for him and I’ve never met her.
She has company on the shelf of forgotten souls. Rove just joined her.
I doubt Noonan legitimately cared for Reagan. I think she is just trying to employ some divide & conquer by invoking his name. Her loyalties clearly lay with President Token, Cruella Deville and Dingy Harry.
Peggy is a lonely, envious, LATE-middle-aged woman. I feel bad for her.
Peggy would do well to recall Reagan’s own 11th Commandment. I suspect that if he were alive today he would tell her to shut up. Eloquently, of course.
And she’s with Romney.
Peggy Noonan is/was a gifted wordsmithing engine, unfortunately we discovered in 2008 that the engine runs on pure bullsh!t.
I infer that Peggy won’t be invited to write Sarah’s inaugural address.
I agree. Coddsie Septus is the best.
Noonan claims to have been a speechwriter for Reagan.
The fact is that he wrote all his own speeches so maybe he just had Noonan around as eye candy. She wasn’t worth much else at that time and her subsequent ramblings prove she wasn’t much of an intellectual at any time.
Kathleen Parker or whatever name she has, she does not call herself a Republican. Noonan is probably like that.
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