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.
‘Takes one to know one.
Peggy still has to attend all those elitist dinners and such. At least she’ll get a few invitations now, the poor little thing.
Peggy is a poop!
Noonan, you supported Obama in 08...which is political treason in my book.
Poor Peggy, she still desires to be accepted by the Chardonnay parties in DC and NYC.
Gee Peggy...Sarah wasn’t the one snookered by Obama, now was she? Who’s the real “nincompoop”? (How’s that for an elitist pejorative?)
Noonan should take that rollingpin out of her *ss before something tears.
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.
This from the Noonan who felated the Kenyan in 2008.
Must be tough for the old hoss, with all of the green pastures and warm sunlight left behind, and nothing ahead but the glue factory and the silent dark.
Noonan is the Nincompoop, I used to like her, but she has gone daffy last few years.
And Noonan’s big accomplishment is that she’s a journalist?
Bwahahahahahaha.
and the sky is falling...peggy who?
Millions of us don’t think so. And even so, where is the civility? Peggy is contemptible using a kindergarten word to describe a pretty powerful figure in the political world. She must be trying to get Olberman’s job.
Peggy is so full of something that her eyes are brown. And that something isn't "nincom".
Who’s Peggy Noodle????? She sounds like an old wet hen ready for the pot.
All Sarah did was help put the House democrats out to pasture. Sounds like a job well done to me.
Noonancompoop.
“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.”
This is the point in the whole dungheap. This is a call for the Versailles on the Potomac ruling class to circle the wagons and preserve their privileged positions. Vichy Republicans and Democrat Fauxsheviks working together to preserve the status quo.
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