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Palin's Failin' (Noonan Barf Alert)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/17/08 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 10/16/2008 10:11:33 PM PDT by acsuc99

But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office. She is a person of great ambition, but the question remains: What is the purpose of the ambition? She wants to rise, but what for? For seven weeks I've listened to her, trying to understand if she is Bushian or Reaganite—a spender, to speak briefly, whose political decisions seem untethered to a political philosophy, and whose foreign policy is shaped by a certain emotionalism, or a conservative whose principles are rooted in philosophy, and whose foreign policy leans more toward what might be called romantic realism, and that is speak truth, know America, be America, move diplomatically, respect public opinion, and move within an awareness and appreciation of reality. But it's unclear whether she is Bushian or Reaganite. She doesn't think aloud. She just . . . says things. Her supporters accuse her critics of snobbery: Maybe she's not a big "egghead" but she has brilliant instincts and inner toughness. But what instincts? "I'm Joe Six-Pack"? She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation—"palling around with terrorists." If the Ayers case is a serious issue, treat it seriously. She is not as thoughtful or persuasive as Joe the Plumber, who in an extended cable interview Thursday made a better case for the Republican ticket than the Republican ticket has made. In the past two weeks she has spent her time throwing out tinny lines to crowds she doesn't, really, understand.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gopcoup; handwringers; mccainpalin; noonan; obama; palin; palinderangment; pds; peggynoonan; peggywho; poisonpen; rinorevolution
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To: acsuc99

P. Noonan and K. Parker are both pathetic, probably from too many years reading Mandingo-type literature. Assisting the implementation of communism in the US is NOT conservative by any stretch of the imagination.


161 posted on 10/17/2008 10:45:41 PM PDT by meadsjn (Socialists promote neighbors selling out their neighbors; Free Traitors promote just the opposite.)
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To: iopscusa
Thanks! I think she is suffering from post-Bush syndrom. She can't see that Palin is not Bush.

She might also be suffering from old fashioned class snobbery. Take a look at this article from the latest issue of the Weekly Standard.

162 posted on 10/18/2008 12:19:48 AM PDT by GipperGal (Plumbers of the World, Unite!)
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To: El Gato
I was thinking that today working out, and it made me work out harder. She has no idea what the conservative base is. I guess the word Junior College is a joke in their circles. I'm glad she has outed herself, we don't need nor want someone like “that one” our team. Farewell Peggy and don't let the ole door hit you in your liberal @ss.
163 posted on 10/18/2008 1:51:40 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (Not all CHANGE is good and I HOPE America understands that...GEAUX TIGERS!!!!)
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To: Bush Revolution

She’s just part of the Republican party that apologizes for us at the DC cocktail parties.


164 posted on 10/18/2008 1:54:50 AM PDT by chasio649 (no longer sick of it all ...)
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To: chasio649
Exactly, doesn't she understand there would be no conservatives without people like us? This election has taught me more than I ever wanted to know about our electorate and our so called “conservative pundits”.
165 posted on 10/18/2008 1:59:20 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (Not all CHANGE is good and I HOPE America understands that...GEAUX TIGERS!!!!)
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To: Bush Revolution

It certainly hasn’t brought the country together...i feel more alienated than ever before...i may feel disenfranchised( i hate that word ) after the election.


166 posted on 10/18/2008 2:02:23 AM PDT by chasio649 (no longer sick of it all ...)
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To: chasio649
Heck no, it's torn us apart! I thougt (well, I never thought) he was a uniter not a devider. Whatever, this is going to be the longest four years of my life if he gets elected.

I just heard the radio news and O is saying McCain is going to cut medicare, what a dishonest @sshole. MSM won't call him on it of course. When did he ever say he would cut Medicare. This guy is pure scum.

167 posted on 10/18/2008 2:07:30 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (Not all CHANGE is good and I HOPE America understands that...GEAUX TIGERS!!!!)
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To: Bush Revolution

I will be hiking a section of the Appalachian trail during the week of the election...i don’t want to know who won until i get home that next Sunday...i wonder if being in the woods and not talking politics to anyone for a week that i can manage it...no radio, no Tv, no media...etc


168 posted on 10/18/2008 2:36:00 AM PDT by chasio649 (no longer sick of it all ...)
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To: acsuc99

Dear Peggy, get over yourself and SHUT UP!

No one cares what you think! You are just another elitist snob who doesn’t get it. Your words are empty flowery gag-o-matic rhetoric.


169 posted on 10/18/2008 2:47:25 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Truth is a Weapon
I refuse to read her crap anymore. She has become a bitter has been.
She concludes the article by saying that people with her POV are being read out of conservatism, and if so - "Come and get me, copper." Well, Peggy, consider yourself "gotten." You are an unperson. I only read because I think I might learn something. And from now on your byline no longer suggests that possibility.

170 posted on 10/18/2008 6:34:40 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (We come to FR to pool our skepticism.)
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To: acsuc99
Peggy Noonan writes a dishonest smear column like this because she knows it will get her on tv.

She's become a performing pet for the liberal MSM. They put her on, she trashes Palin, and the MSM gets to say how smugly virtuous they are: “See, even conservatives like Peggy Noonan agree with us!”

And Noonan is being dishonest with herself when she says Palin doesn't stand for anything. She does stand for something: She's a populist, anti-corruption conservative who believes in individual rights and responsibilities, and a strong, no-nonsense foreign policy.

That Peggy Noonan, for all her Eastern sophistication, can not fathom why these values are popular with American voters, reveals that Noonan is not nearly as astute an observer as she thinks she is.

171 posted on 10/18/2008 8:55:01 AM PDT by mojito
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To: acsuc99

...and Noonan’s swoonin’.

What a useful idiot.


172 posted on 10/18/2008 8:57:05 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: GipperGal

What a terrific response.

The WSJ didn’t print it because it was so much better than the original.


173 posted on 10/18/2008 9:06:38 AM PDT by mojito
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To: loungeSerf

ya know what,you may have a point there...I’ve read her tripe this last year but has she attacked a democrat yet or just us?


174 posted on 10/18/2008 9:07:38 AM PDT by advertising guy ( CHARITY BEGINS AT HUT !)
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To: mojito; All

As Michael Reagan wrote shortly after the RNC, Sarah Palin is the best living embodiment of the Ronald Reagan legacy.

That is not to say she and RR see every issue the same way, but she alone among contemporary politicians represents so many of the same values AND can excite - inspire - lead in ways that other conservatives cannot (through no fault of their own). Palin has rare political, leadership, and communication gifts that come along once in a generation at best. She alone gives us hope of a resurgence of conservatism.

Peggy Noonan’s delusional attacks on Governor Palin have BETRAYED the Reagan legacy.

The reason that Noonan, Parker, and Christopher Buckley are becoming widely despised is that they are working to destroy the best bright hope that has come along in the past 20 years. All because Palin does not meet their sniffy, stuffy, pretentious “standards” of what they consider most respectable.

Well guess what, turncoat morons, Ronald Reagan went to an unknown little midwestern college and worked a career as an ACTOR before he succeeded so brilliantly in politics. He was always sneered at in the same ways that Noonan-Parker-Buckley are sneering at Palin.

It is absolutely disgusting that supposedly conservative chatterbox writers are serving the Demagogues’ agenda of tearing down Palin.

Noonan, Parker, Buckley and their pretentious ilk are dead to me — I will never care about their bogus opinions about anything. They are on the side of the snivelling traitor class of left-wing Demagogues, no matter what their past positions or claims of “conservatism” might indicate.


175 posted on 10/18/2008 9:16:45 AM PDT by Enchante (America: has Obama told you about his "New Party" that sought to spread SOCIALISM??)
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To: All

clarification: when I said “through no fault of their own” above I was referring solely to communication gifts that seem to be beyond teaching or practice (though practice can anyone communicate better). OF COURSE many so-called conservative leaders can be blamed for egregious failures to stay true to conservative principles. I meant only that it’s hard to see anyone else on the scene now who could have anything like the impact Governor Palin is having, no matter how hard they might try.....


176 posted on 10/18/2008 9:20:52 AM PDT by Enchante (America: has Obama told you about his "New Party" that sought to spread SOCIALISM??)
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To: acsuc99

Painful - I used to read everything she wrote.

Since her divorce & subsequent return to New York (1990?), Peggy has become increasingly enraptured with the sound of her own voice. She also has become more and more liberal. I’m sure she gets invited to nice parties now, but I haven’t read her books or columns since the early 90s.


177 posted on 10/18/2008 9:21:05 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (It's Joe the Plumber vs. Bill the Bomber!)
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To: loungeSerf

Noonan sure comes across as an attention-craving media whore now. I don’t doubt that she is critical of Palin but the columns are ginned up to excite the Mediascum so that they will talk about Noonan, have her on their shows, invite her to their cocktail parties, etc.

Noonan has sold out the Reagan Revolution to whore herself to the Mediascum of NY and DC.


178 posted on 10/18/2008 9:25:06 AM PDT by Enchante (America: has Obama told you about his "New Party" that sought to spread SOCIALISM??)
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To: acsuc99

Yeah, I can tell by the way no one shows up at Palin’s rallies.

Oh, wait...


179 posted on 10/18/2008 9:27:40 AM PDT by Ladysmith
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To: acsuc99

Peggy was


180 posted on 10/18/2008 9:29:30 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Off With her head.....)
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