Posted on 10/07/2004 3:08:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Democrats were “the party of the working man” decades ago, but now the Republicans are, Peggy Noonan said today at a luncheon sponsored by the Palm Beach Republican Club.
Tracing her own evolution, and that of relatives, from bedrock Irish Catholic Brooklyn Democrats to Reaganites, she singled out the Dems’ “creepily narrow view of religion and its role in our lives.”
The GOP is “welcoming of religion,” she said, but the Democrats have grown “narrower” and “nasty” about matters of faith.
As an example she cited Republicans' support for prison fellowship programs that help felons reform, help their families and reduce crime, whereas Democrats object to what they describe as “violation of church and state.”
“That’s crazy,” said Noonan, speaking to the crowd in place of Sen. Zell Miller. “The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
Her wake-up call began during her early working years. Toiling at mundane jobs, she got “clobbered” by taxes that Democrats kept raising.
Elitists' Hypocrisy
She recalled Boston in the 1970s, when elitist Democrat lawyers and judges and editors devastated the government schools and families by pushing forced busing upon lower-middle-class and poor children, black and white. “It hurt me so much to watch it,” she said, and still angers her to this day.
“If that meant little kids had to suffer, then so be it.” These same limousine liberals, she noted, “all had their kids in private schools.”
During Vietnam, she remembered, some Democrats and other leftists went beyond anti-war protests to “expressing an actual hatred” of the United States. “I knew America was not evil.”
Why Won't Kerry Apologize?
Noonan said she respected the anti-war activism of John Kerry, then using the issue to launch his political career, until his slanderous congressional testimony in 1971, in which he bore false witness against fellow troops he accused of beheadings, rapes and other tortures “like Genghis Khan.”
“I do not know why he did not apologize to this day,” Noonan said as the crowd applauded.
She recalled how after Vietnam the liberals in Congress “tore up” intelligence and the military.
“They made me a right-wing nut,” she said to laughter.
Republicans said “we can’t be dreamy and frightened about the world” and saw the need to defend the nation, Noonan emphasized. America is strong because of the GOP, she said.
“Democrats became not a party but a collection of hungry and demanding groups.” They care about “getting power and using it,” often to the disadvantage of American citizens in general, she said.
“They are inherently destructive in their policies.”
She had a brief explanation of why she was returning to politics now, to support President Bush and the GOP, after a long absence in which she focused on writing: “9/11.”
Kerry cannot run from his Senate record, she implied. “People do what they know how to do.”
The Massachusetts Democrat, if elected president, would increase taxes, increase spending and “be weak in the world,” she said. “It’s what he’s done. It’s what he knows how to do.”
Kerry would act as if America were just another nation in the U.N., she said, mocking his “global smell test.”
“We have to stay independent and sovereign.”
Sounding a conciliatory note after Miller’s strongly worded speech that the hundreds of guests had watched earlier, Noonan urged Democrats in attendance to heed her story, open their minds and “come on over” to the Republican Party.
IMO, here's the bottom line on Kerry: in 20 years in the US Senate, he has done nothing noteworthy. Aside from subjugating us to the UN, a Kerry presidency will be as noteworthy as his Senate record.
He has a desk full of plans, but no clues. We need to give him one on Nov. 2.
I am hoping he only said it for the ratings.
Oil For Food.
Rantings For Ratings.
Birds of a feather.
And the list goes on...
but these folks need to go back and relive the week of September 11 - 22, 2004.
Nothing noteworthy??
Are you kidding me?
He married an old rich woman he doesn't even have to sleep with! Even Tiger Woods couldnt do that!
Or as Ann Coulter puts it, they become Republicans once they grow up, leave home (their parents') and start paying taxes. I bought her new book yesterday and the little girl that works for me decided to get her husband a copy - thinking she could watch TV last night without him controlling the remote....mistake - he read different passages to her all evening. She finally said, hey, I'll read it when you're through!....didn't make a difference - he'd come across another good paragraph and insist on reading it to her! cracked me up this morning. On top of it, she's got a resemblence to Ann and was ready to kick his a$$ cause he was drooling over the picture on the cover! W 2004
But, he didn't marry her as part of his Senate career.
I stand by my original post - he has done nothing noteworthy in his 20 years in the Senate.
Kudos to Peggy for using the word "creepily" to describe the behavior of Democrats!
I will henceforth endeavor to close my eyes and think of this picture every time some ineffably cruel person posts a picture of Helen Thomas. Thank you for sharing.
Agreed. Peggy is terrific.
bttt
Now that's more like it, Peggy Noonan! You belong on the barricades, not in the porch rocker watching the grass grow.
BTTT
read later bump
Thanks for the bump
"Liberals are conservatives who haven't been mugged yet" - Frank Rizzo, former mayor of Philadelphia
Many thanks..sounds right..
FYI..see #35..
Anyone can talk about having a plan. However putting the plan in action is something else
Owning property, moving up in one's career, thinking and learning about the Constitution, getting married, having children, and listening to Rush Limbaugh. All of this was happening, but I stil was a Democrat. Then I began watching the Democrat party tolerate or encourage infanticide and lying, and a confiscatory tax system. I could stand it no more. Goodbye Democrats. Hello, Republicans.
"...speaking to the crowd in place of Sen. Zell Miller"
Anyone know why Zell Miller had to be replaced?
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