Posted on 06/13/2004 9:04:38 PM PDT by Pokey78
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Others know that Reagan was his own best speechwriter.
Besides, Reagan's desktop plaque said something about how "There's no limit to how high a man can go as long as he doesn't care who gets the credit." Reagan could care less if his critics believed he was merely an actor who only delivered lines given to him in a script. Others know better.
Yup. Peter Robinson doesn't fit the description of the Hack.
I probably wouldn't recognize the names of those she's talking about anyway, even if she'd mentioned them by name. :)
Agree. I don't always like her stuff (she is often self-indulgent, and occasionally magnificent) but this is the first time I have ever seen her petty, uncharitable, and unchristian.
Oh, and I know who the malignant leprechaun is. Perfect description. But reflects poorly on her.
Thanks for the ping. Count me in as one who's also wondering who the Hack is... who would put their hand on her waist that she would consider it a mistake. She's always been such a gentle soul, even with Colmes who tries, tries to demean her.
I didn't mention it for good reason. Reagan didn't have any real success rolling back social programs related to FDR`s New Deal and LBJ`s Great Society. He did cut discretionary spending in his first three years and slowed the rate of growth of the federal bureaucracy overall. But even under Reagan, the federal government grew at a rate consistent with historical averages of recent years. Reagan's deregulation efforts were very significant and important in the reducing government intrusion. His major accomplishments remain, cutting income taxes, revitalizing and expanding the economy, winning the Cold War and a rebirth of the American spirit.
"Dana Rohrbacher, congressman from California"
I saw a brief segment on FNC with him during last week. He showed some pictures of himself in the White House with Reagan.
Oh, I agree -- that's why I said, "liberals ONCE claimed that he always needed a script." too much evidence has come out in recent years - such as his hand-written letters and radio broadcasts from the 1970s - that have silenced those who claimed he wasn't a quick, fluent and eloquent writer and thinker. All the same, Noonan is a self-promoter, and when she first launched her self-promotion by blabbing about her speechwriting adventures, a lot of Reaganites were critical of her.
Noonan's characterization of "the hack" as having a "greasy political style" fits Rohrabacher too. He's all politician.
Don't get me started on Haig. He lived in the same condomium building as my aunt. What a self-centered jerk.
Haig needs to shack up with Madness Albright. These blowhards deserve one another.
So? Why is the Journal letting Noonan use her column to take personal swipes at somebody she doesn't like? Is it that she doesn't like the fact that some other ex-speechwriters are getting some attention? She's the one who set the precedent of the speechwriter going public and seeking acclaim for the "boss's" words. She can't credibly complain when other speechwriters try the same trick.
Why is Jim Robinson letting you use Free Republic to slander President Bush and the war effort?
Which "war effort"? I'm for the war against Al Queda. I just think that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake and a diversion from the war on terror. That's not "slander," that's called honest disagreement. Tom Clancy agrees with me - that doesn't make me right (or wrong), it just shows that people can hold a position that's not your position and still be good Americans.
**Just in my line of sight was an extraordinarily wide variety of people in the assemblage. The people inside that cathedral who were not there by virtue of their position--senators, congressmen, diplomats--were people who actually loved the Reagans. My eye went from a grieving Mikhail Gorbachev to Joan Rivers to Jim Billington of the Library of Congress to Oscar De la Renta, from Antonin Scalia to Buffy Cafritz, from Clarence Thomas to Merv Griffin, from Prince Charles to Oatsie Charles.**
What a smile this brings to my face. It must have been fantastic to have been there in person.
bttt fro later in the a.m.
They're both Washington socialites, known mainly for being Washington socialites.
Me too *L*
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