Noonan nails it...would you go on a blind date with a man your friends described as "complicated"?
Posted on 11/10/2004 11:44:49 PM PST by goldstategop
Well, I just can't stop being happy. I don't mean elated--it's hard to get elated by big history, as opposed to by the birth of a baby, say, or a child's being elected president of the debating club--but I continue to feel relief (the exit poll hives have gone down) and satisfaction (my countrymen, such good sense they have). So let's just let the mood continue and have fun.
This week I went to a symposium thrown together at the last minute by the Club for Growth, the Washington-based political action committee that gives crucial financial help to candidates who espouse economic policies that will help the American job machine, and opposing those who do not. Almost every Senate and House candidate they backed this year won. Also it was the club that worked with Hollywood's David Zucker to get out the anti-Kerry commercial that was perhaps the best of the season, the one with the guy standing at the altar when the bride realizes he just can't make up his mind and starts to chase the bridesmaid, and then the old organist. It captured John Kerry's indecision and its implications. More important, it was funny.
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This is one of the best articles Peggy Noonan has written. I'm glad she's back.
I don't know about anyone else here but I still have that weird suspended feeling, like a residue from that exit poll depression. I feel good but it's like I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop... I think I'm just a suspicious sort and I keep seeing them counting ballots in OH and that idiot Keith Olberman, though even ABC has stomped on those idiotic rumors.
A tad off chronologically. But an admirable sentiment.
Thank God we don't have a traitor for President! Thanks for the post.
I love Peggy's articles.
I always call her a word artist, because she is. Peggy is so well liked for some of the same reasons she says President Bush is. She is real.
Summary: Bush won because W stands for WYSIWYG, or "The W you see is the W you get."
I was asked by Stephen Moore about comparisons of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, how they are alike and how they differ. I told him I normally don't answer that question from journalists because they always turn it into a sort of "but she conceded Bush lacks Reagan's rhetorical gifts" kind of thing.I like GWB a lot. I think GWB is much more like Reagan than his father, and someone always pops up and says, "GWB is no Reagan." And I always, reply, Reagan was no GWB. GWB wouldn't have bugged out of Lebanon after all the marines were killed. GWB would have given the Lebanese a new democratic government. In addition, I really liked Reagan. Both were the right men for the presidency at the right time.
As Shakespeare might have said, Semper fi.Reagan said that often as well, but he usually said keep the faith. Like Reagan, I believe this to be true:
I've never felt more strongly that America's best days and democracy's best days lie ahead. We're a powerful force for good. With faith and courage, we can perform great deeds and take freedom's next step. And we will. We will carry on the tradition of a good and worthy people who have brought light where there was darkness, warmth where there was cold, medicine where there was disease, food where there was hunger, and peace where there was only bloodshed.Keep the faith, Freepers. And a big thank you to ourLet us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Thank God for Ohio! Adios
Peggy has nailed perfectly the way I feel - - a tingly sense of relief and joy. It has been a looooong year, and the nagging nervousness has been there the whole time despite the sense of confidence.
And now it's time to get ready for the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. We WON, big time, and I intend to savor the victory for a long, long time..... and relax with a permanent silly grin from ear to ear.
Relax. It is OVER, friend. Way over.
Last I heard, Bush was about to break 60 million votes as they keep tabulating the absentee ballots. BY FAR the most votes ever received by any candidate in history.
I know, you're right... But it's funny, in regular life I am the one who gets calm when stuff happens, I'm the one who tells everyone else to relax, call the doctor, I'll get the car, etc. But THIS......! I can't really explain it. I think I've invested too much in this emotionally, but what can ya do?
Noonan is a treasure. A link to Reagan.
Peggy writes like an angel.
Timing is everything, and as JF...ingKerry would say, 'it's complicated.' Looking back, it seems as if we came to forks in the road more than once, choices -- and we took the less contentious, less courageous road. Started with Carter, though. That feeble excuse for a man has a lot to answer for.
Noonan nails it...would you go on a blind date with a man your friends described as "complicated"?
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