One half of what could have been a great column...but then Peggy Noonan's Palin Derangement Syndrome had to kick in.Pity. Posted on 11/06/2010 2:08:42 PM PDT by hecht
Peggy Noonan Calls Sarah Palin A 'Nincompoop'
One half of what could have been a great column...but then Peggy Noonan's Palin Derangement Syndrome had to kick in.Pity.
Noonan's latest makes two cogent points - first that she's finally done with Obama:
On to the aftermath of the election. On Wednesday President Obama gave a news conference to share his thoughts. Viewers would have found it disappointing if there had been any viewers. The president is speaking, in effect, to an empty room. From my notes five minutes in: "This wet blanket, this occupier of the least interesting corner of the faculty lounge, this joy-free zone, this inert gas." By the end I was certain he will never produce a successful stimulus because he is a human depression.
Actually I thought the worst thing you can say about a president: that he won't even make a good former president. {...}
What Democrats have to learn from this election: Cut loose from that. Join with Republicans where you can, create legislation together, send the bill to the White House, see what happens. Even as the Republicans have succeeded in getting out from under George W. Bush, this is your chance to get out from under Mr. Obama, and possibly prosper in 2012 whatever happens to him.
The other cogent point Noonan makes is that the Tea Party Movement needs to realize both the message and the messenger is important, as she compares Marco Rubio with a Sharron Angle or a Christine O'Donnell. She has a point. But what she of course fails to get, like most ruling class elitists is that these people didn't nominate themselves. The voters did. And that even a well-spoken, gaffe free 'moderate' candidate can end up losing - ask Dino Rossi in Washington State about that.
At that point, Noonan's usual Palin Derangement Syndrome kicks in, sparked by Governor Palin's common sense answer to questions on FOX about her TV show about Alaska and 'Dancing With The Stars'..."Wasn't Ronald Reagan an actor? Wasn't he in 'Bedtime for Bonzo,' Bozo, something? Ronald Reagan was an actor."
Noonan's response was to say that Palin was ignorant and to go through Reagan's pre-Presidential resume, referring to his Hollywood profession as 'an artist'.
I have no doubt that the Gipper himself would have chuckled at that one, recalling all the lame movies he was compelled to make to earn that weekly paycheck, keep from angering the studio bosses and getting placed on suspension. And I doubt that President Reagan would have put hosting the GE Theater each week under the category of 'art'. Being a working actor didn't make him less of a great man, anymore than Palin sitting in the 'Dancing With The Stars' audience to root for her daughter diminished her. Noonan, of course, either missed that simple reality or chose to ignore it, as her PDS kicked in full strength:
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.
This 'nincompoop' as Noonan referred to her is directly responsible for GOP gains in this election. along with Jim DeMint. It was Palin in particular who kept the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party when she could have taken them third party for her own aggrandizement , and without the Tea Party things would be very different for the GOP today.
Governor Palin had the ninja political skills to go from being the defeated VP candidate in one of the most inept campaigns in recent memory to the hottest political ticket in America...and she did it on her own, outside the GOP establishment.
I and many others haven't forgotten how Peggy Noonan shilled for Obama during the '08 election and told us how wonderful he was going to be. Palin, on the other hand, had his number from Day One.
So who's the 'nincompoop', Peggy Noonan?
And that bit about accomplishment? Sarah Palin has been a mayor,a member of an important energy board in Alaska who took on the fat cats in her own party for corruption and won, a governor who took on Big oil, balanced Alaska's budget and put through a vital energy pipeline that had been sitting in limbo for thirty years, a successful small business owner, a vice presidential candidate, and she's now a best selling author, speaker, political voice and TV commentator whose fans mob her wherever she goes. And she's still in her forties.
And what was it Peggy Noonan accomplished again? A few speeches written a quarter of a century ago, a couple of books, writing a weekly column and attending a few of the right Manhattan cocktail parties.Oh, yes, and lying to her readers.
Whatever else she's done, Sarah Palin has made a difference, a positive change in America's political climate. Peggy Noonan never will, and that probably fuels her rage as much as anything.
What is the sound of one cat fightin’?
Did Peggy misunderstand her own point about maturity?
Uh, Peggy’s right in this case.
The peggy is a noonancompoop.
mao.
Armed with a laptop and a Twitter account, that nincomepoop has stymied the socialists more than almost anyone else
And completely without a telepromoter
Noonan needs to switch to regular tap water. There is something in her bottled water that is messing with her mind.
Uhh, Sarah isn’t on DWTS. Bristol is.
I’m sick of these women. Had it up to here. They’re just jealous nags. There’s nothing more to them than that. Top it off with Meghan McCain saying she didn’t think Sarah’s show was a very ‘presidential’ thing to do. Hey, dumb*ss, she’s NOT the president.
Peggy, you were exposed as the lib, piss-ant you are some 2 years ago. Why do you insist of making yourself look even worse?
Which case? She made two.
What is the sound of one cat fightin’?
mao.
I remember “Death Valley Days” with Ronnie hosting. Sarah’s “Alaska” program brings that to mind.
Peggy’s just being a big poopyhead. ;^)
(there. I can do it, too.)
Peterman: Well, I see what’s going on in here. I am smack dab in the middle of a good old fashioned cat fight.
Elaine: Mr. Petermen, this is not a cat fight. This is violent psychotic behavior directed at me all because are told her to swing her arms.
Peterman: Woof!
Elaine: Do you mean “reer?”
Petermen: Yes, that’s the one! Good day Elaine.
Do you think MoonM will know? PDS is not the sign of someone who can respond rationally.
I am a Palin supporter, but I would have liked to see her build up her resume by personally defeating Muskowsky and then serving in the Senate. The bigger the resume, the less effective the invective from the MSM.
Yo, MOON, here's a Double MOON for you...
That's what we should be asking since this fool supported Barry to begin with. What makes her think we'll somehow believe that although she was temporarily insane she's OK now and ready to protect us from ourselves by pointing out who is acceptable and who isn't?
Put her in the same dumpster as Rove and Kraut and if any of them who literally beg to be returned to the fold (after admitting very openly how wrong they were) then we could maybe take a vote on whether to pay attention to them again or not. They better hurry, though, right now I can't pencil them in for such a vote until early 2015 and open spots for their sort to plead their case a filling up fast.
Regards
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