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'He's Got Two of 'Em'- Why I can't stop being happy about the election result.
opinionjournal.com ^ | Thursday, November 11 | PEGGY NOONAN

Posted on 11/11/2004 5:03:45 AM PST by crushelits

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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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: elections; noonan; peggy

1 posted on 11/11/2004 5:03:45 AM PST by crushelits
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To: crushelits

Peggy Noonan is such a wonderful gift!


2 posted on 11/11/2004 5:14:10 AM PST by Tensgrrl
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To: crushelits
"Club for Growth"
'He's Got Two of 'Em'

:)

3 posted on 11/11/2004 5:17:15 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: crushelits

Fabulous article.


4 posted on 11/11/2004 5:18:28 AM PST by Angry Enough
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To: Tensgrrl
Peggy Noonan is such a wonderful gift!

Is she the same Peggy Noonan who said: ""The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain"

5 posted on 11/11/2004 5:22:29 AM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: crushelits
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.

Talk about relieved
I felt like I was carrying a lead weight in my gut until last Wednesday

Polls weren't very encouraging . I felt Bush should have been at 55% or Better ( And he should have been. Fact remains 48% of the voters were willing to put a lying traitorous slime bag like Kerry as CIC of our military. That is a VERY DEPRESSING THOUGHT )
6 posted on 11/11/2004 5:23:02 AM PST by uncbob
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To: crushelits
I notice the trajectory of her writing is downward in recent years. Like this use of "two of 'em". I don't think it added much to her opinions. And she relied upon the device as a quote so she could retain a shred of ladylike demeanor.

Good article, bad title.
7 posted on 11/11/2004 5:27:31 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: crushelits

Wow! That was a GREAT article!


8 posted on 11/11/2004 5:34:53 AM PST by sneakers
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To: uncbob
While I agree that a larger margin for the president would have been better, I look at matters this way: the liberal/leftists/socialists threw everything they had at W, from pseudo-documentaries to Ratherist national guard service lies to MSM negative coverage of the war in Iraq, finally ending with the "missing munitions" story that was not (a few tons "missing" - not really, as it turned out - out of really true, either...and the president STILL won reelection, and the Republicans gained in the Senate and House and a governorship as well!

If those who tend to believe MSM half-truths had not been poisoned so relentlessly by the MSM, Michael Moore, Hollywood, and so forth, the margin would have been even greater.

The conclusion is really a happy one. Even with the most powerful propaganda effort, falsehood and enslaving government and elitism and cowardice lost the day; the majority does weigh reports and think for itself. The majority did avail itself of multiple news sources. It chose well.

The nation is safe for four more years.

9 posted on 11/11/2004 5:46:25 AM PST by TheGeezer
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To: TheGeezer
While I agree that a larger margin for the president would have been better, I look at matters this way: the liberal/leftists/socialists threw everything they had at W...and the president STILL won reelection,...If those who tend to believe MSM half-truths had not been poisoned so relentlessly by the MSM, Michael Moore, Hollywood, and so forth, the margin would have been even greater."

Points well taken! I think I understand better now that when Bush talked of earning "political capital" he wasn't just referring to the capital that comes with a win over an opponent and the opposition party, it was the HUGE amount of capital that comes from taking on and beating Kerry and the DEMS, the MSM, old Europe, Hollywood, etc. The MSM hasn't touched on this because it is not in their interest, but your post has helped to illuminate just how great a victory this was for the President.

10 posted on 11/11/2004 6:16:24 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet
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To: LZ_Bayonet

Your kind comments are especially appreciated since I reread my post and it contains a phrase I'd intended to delete but didn't! You managed to pull understanding out of that mess! You are very kind, indeed!


11 posted on 11/11/2004 7:04:00 AM PST by TheGeezer
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To: TheGeezer
Your kind comments are especially appreciated...

Thank YOU, it is not an understatement to say that your comments have radically changed my perspective, as an observer, of Bush's political position during the coming four years. Though he continues to have the same enemies, he is much stronger than prior to the election, and has reassurance that most Americans understand, and rejected, what his enemies tried to do. It must be a big boost to his confidence.

12 posted on 11/11/2004 8:29:59 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet
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To: struwwelpeter

I recall that she later reassessed Reagan, and recanted many of these harsh criticisms.

Read "When Character as King" Wonderful bio.


13 posted on 11/11/2004 8:48:14 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: crushelits

Excellent. Thanks for posting.


14 posted on 11/11/2004 10:30:02 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

Stop that! :-)


15 posted on 11/11/2004 10:32:44 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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