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The Savaging of Sarah Wasn't Personal, It was just business
Creative Minority Report ^ | 11-06-08 | Matt Archbold

Posted on 11/06/2008 10:53:12 AM PST by marcbold

If the caricature of Republicans as heartless capitalists with cash registers instead of souls is accurate then they should gleefully accept prodigals Peggy Noonan and Christopher Buckley back into the fold. Because I absolutely believe that their personal attacks on Sarah Palin were nothing personal. It was nothing more than a money grab.

I'd imagine the pressure to sell books is enormous. The top book publishers have a lot riding on each title. And if your book doesn't sell you don't get to write books for the top publishers anymore. It's capitalism in its purest form. And that's why I think Peggy Noonan's and Chris Buckley's savaging of Sarah Palin was simply about selling books. It was about media exposure for them to hawk their books.

Patriotic Grace came out in October. Oddly, that's around the time Noonan discovered that Sarah Palin was a vulgarization of the political system after first having praised her. And she went on every show she could find running Sarah Palin down while holding up a copy of her book which ironically was called, "Patriotic Grace."...

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: christopherbuckley; peggynoonan; sarahpalin
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1 posted on 11/06/2008 10:53:13 AM PST by marcbold
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To: marcbold
Without Palin, McCain would have lost by 20 Million votes.


2 posted on 11/06/2008 10:53:39 AM PST by petercooper (I am a bitter clinger!)
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To: marcbold
Operation Freep Palin
3 posted on 11/06/2008 10:55:17 AM PST by mnehring
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To: marcbold

Was it business when you did it to Condileeza Rice?


4 posted on 11/06/2008 10:55:36 AM PST by All Blue State
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To: marcbold

ATTENTION!

Please, everyone who is as offended by this load of crap as I am, and if you contributed to the McCain Compliance Fund, demand a refund!

I contacted them this morning, expressing my frustration with the latest turn of events, and demanded a full and immediate refund of my $100 contribution. They are providing a refund.

HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS!

The contact is Susan Nelson, National Finance Director, at snelson@mccain08hq.com.

This is disgraceful and petty!

(Sorry for multiple posts in multiple threads, but I’d rather post in each one than start a vanity.)


5 posted on 11/06/2008 10:55:53 AM PST by AnglePark
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To: marcbold

The heart of a mercenary is so ugly....yes, I believe they really are that venal.


6 posted on 11/06/2008 10:56:43 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: marcbold
Likewise, McCain advisor's attacks on Palin aren't personal, either.

They are merely an unprincipled, self-centered efforts to maintain professional credentials.

Dunno how successful those attacks will be - personally, all I'll need to hear is that Steve Schmidt or Mark Davis have been hired and whomever hired them loses my vote.

7 posted on 11/06/2008 10:59:16 AM PST by skeeter (Its Barry's fault)
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To: marcbold

Peggy Who?


8 posted on 11/06/2008 11:06:15 AM PST by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: anniegetyourgun

The attacks on her were the most vicious that I have ever
seen.This coupled with union thugs delving into Joe the
Plumber life is a portent of the future. They will only be
emboldened.Naturally,house and senate repulbicans will roll
over in a spirit of bipartisanship that will be demanded by
the MSM!


9 posted on 11/06/2008 11:06:46 AM PST by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: marcbold
Conservatives need a party without the likes of Noonan Parker , Brooks and Gergen . When your little kids played in mud and got really dirty , did you every have a thought that it might be easier to have new ones than to clean them up . Me too . But it was just a passing fancy . No new party . The GOP needs to purge , not welcome back traitors .
10 posted on 11/06/2008 11:09:08 AM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F/8 Cav)
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To: marcbold

MORE CONTACTS
http://www.gop.com/Connect/ContactUs.htm


11 posted on 11/06/2008 11:10:08 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: marcbold

ANYONE who trashed Palin is on my permanent s**t list, deal with it.


12 posted on 11/06/2008 11:13:11 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: marcbold

Peggy Noonan and Chris Buckley have joined the waste that is the “american” MSM as nothing more than political hacks. History should record them as such.


13 posted on 11/06/2008 11:15:11 AM PST by ASU_94
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To: marcbold
It was nothing more than a money grab.

People who do things like this are called whores - POLITICAL WHORES!
14 posted on 11/06/2008 11:20:29 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: marcbold

Peggy & Chris have no principals, so I want nothing to do with them. Let them sit out in the cold for all I care.


15 posted on 11/06/2008 11:20:54 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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Don’t know of this a**wipe, but let me educate you. These stiffs are NOT Conservatives, NEVER have been Conservatives, and I hope they burn in Hell with the rest of the sniveling NEOCONS!


16 posted on 11/06/2008 11:24:54 AM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: marcbold
Noonan and Buckley are politically in the toilet, from my point of view.

Liberals don't want them and conservatives will no longer read/listen to them.

I turn off any media where either are spouting their sniveling, smarmy elitism, ridiculing "real conservatives."

If we wanted to listen to people trash conservatives, we'd still be subscribing to Time, Newsweek, etc.

Thanks but no thanks to either "commentator."

Let both look for new day jobs in liberal rags, if they can find any.

17 posted on 11/06/2008 11:27:32 AM PST by zerosix
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To: zerosix

If you have any Peggy Noonan books send them BACK to her!


18 posted on 11/06/2008 11:29:22 AM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: petercooper

I figure he would not have gotten more than 25-30 million votes, and those would have been the votes of Republican morons. I said at the time of his nomination he wasn’t a Conservative and that I would NOT vote for him. However, when the alternative was a Communist agitator, I relented, but only because he made a token offering to Conservatives by placing Palin on the ballot. Frankly, I believe they did it purely to place a WOMAN on the ticket to conflict against the first Black (read multi-racial bastard Communist here!).
Bush1, Bush2, Dole, McCain. Not a Conservative among them.


19 posted on 11/06/2008 11:29:28 AM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: word_warrior_bob

“If you have any Peggy Noonan books send them BACK to her!”

Wouldn’t it be a shame if my dog happened to take a cr@p on before sending?


20 posted on 11/06/2008 11:40:37 AM PST by AirForceMom (God Bless the USA)
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