Posted on 10/18/2008 8:00:21 PM PDT by Jack Bull
It is nothing short of stunning this election year to read and listen to some of our most noted national conservatives demonstrate no practical understanding of conservative America. It would serve Peggy Noonan, Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes, Kathleen Parker, and Bill Kristol well to shirk cocktail parties and mid-town lunches with the broadcast and publishing hierarchy in Manhattan and D.C. and travel like a presidential candidate for a time. Potluck dinners, small-town festivals, state fairs, church picnics and bowling alleys would be great places to start. Shake some hands. Converse with people. Were they to dare attempt such a journey, it is without question our conservative "All Stars" would find far more Sarah Palins and far fewer Peggy Noonans. A fact, one might suspect, embarrasses them to their core.
Average American, working class conservatives have disdain for the dishonest turn their "intellectual superiors" have taken. Their attempt to discredit Governor Palin as an empty "follower" with nothing to offer is both disrespectful and transparent. Palin was elected by a state's majority citizenry. This instantly qualifies the Governor for the national debate and singly trumps any perceived qualifications of both men on the Democratic ticket.
In an election year when youth trumps age, speeches trump experience, and "cool" trumps all - sometimes even the most thoughtful among us transform into high school teens who simply want to fit in. Ms. Noonan and her once conservative ilk are this year's homecoming queen candidates and Senator Obama is their football captain.
The conservative television and print establishment has no doubt succumbed to the well-crafted speeches well delivered by the freshman Illinois senator. It is a disappointing but perfectly understood turn for individuals like the former Reagan speech writer. They would, however, be received more believably and credited with more integrity were they to begin making an honest explanation of their support of the Democratic ticket. Instead, their newfound infatuation has led to an elitist, deceitful and unwarranted attack on the "vulgar" Americans who call their children "kids" and drop their "ings" at the end of a sentence.
Ms. Noonan and company have been making the rounds for weeks now asserting Governor Palin remains an affront to conservatives' intelligence. In truth, it is Ms. Noonan and her weak-kneed colleagues carrying that banner. It is not enough for them to simply join ranks of Obama's flock and sing his praises to Pennsylvania Ave. There is no intellectual heft to be found in that. To their liberal colleagues and friends, it is considered brave and intellectually honest of them to pile on Governor Palin instead. Simply, it is cool to kick conservatives this year. Cooler still? A known conservative kicking another conservative. Now that's the pinnacle of cool.
We read them like a book. Like the newly authored book Ms. Noonan is currently pedaling to the electorate, Patriotic Grace. Penning and marketing a new book as a conservative in such a challenging year for conservatives is no small task, to be certain. Surely Ms. Noonan would not sacrifice her once proud conservative principles simply to appeal to Bush loathing, Obama sycophants roaming through a book store in an election year.
Now that would be vulgar. In this case, however, vulgar is cool.
Chris Stigall is a talk show host on KCMO radio in Kansas City.
In an election year when youth trumps age, speeches trump experience, and "cool" trumps all - sometimes even the most thoughtful among us transform into high school teens who simply want to fit in. Ms. Noonan and her once conservative ilk are this year's homecoming queen candidates and Senator Obama is their football captain.
the last stand of the Rockefeller country clubbers.
They don’t call them the “Beltway Boys” for nothing. I agree that they need to get there heads out of Washington and get some fresh air.
If she decides for the 2012 Presidency,
Will she go back to be Governor of Alaska for 4 years or will she move to Washington?
Will she have a team to back her up or will she be alone??
Just curious...
Looking at the polls moving McCains way since the debates, guess the All Star Idiots were wrong. Course, sitting there looking presidential trumps all to them. Like they even had to watch the debate to figure that out.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
They have been around the Washington Elite to long and it starts to corrupt you!
What is interesting is the All Stars if you will were pulling for McCain since day one. Now that he is the head of the ticket they are dumping on him. These people are FUBAR.
Peggy Noonan and how many others are cruising through life on the basis of their having once been “in the Reagan Whitehouse?”
As if Ronald Reagan even knew Noonan’s name, much listened to her cockamamie ideas...
I think her scenario would have to be to stay in Alaska, prove herself with more successes as Governor, cultivate ideas and contacts with conservatives around the country, and prepare to run for POTUS.
What is it with Washington DC? People seem to go bat $hit crazy after living there. Think it’s in the water system?
Noonan’s vapors are simply disgusting. Talk about an elitist!
I talked tonight with a guy who talked last night to some wealthy, older Republicans in Tempe (AZ). They love McCain (puke!), but are not certain they can vote for a ticket with Palin.
I felt the same way, in reverse...but the Country Club Republicans are still with us. And apparently, many of them live in New York with our ‘conservative elite’.
she is a closet drunk. none of the “All Stars knew what the debate was about “ Joe the Plumber”.
Ms. Noonan should have to come out to fly-over country and spend a few days with all of us Joe the Plumbers. It would probably repulse her so much that it would kill her.
So its up to her to come up with funds??
I hope she does.....
All Hail the Punditocracy!
Do Noonan,Parker and Co. even have a following? I have never owned a book by another of them nor have I ever felt compelled to tune to anything just because they would be on. Maybe I’m wrong but they seem like they are the Conservative b-list behind Rush,Coulter,Hannity,Malkin etc. I mean exactly who do they have as a loyal following if conservatives are ticked off at them all the time?
Sorry for the long post but they just seem like irrelevant blowhards to me.
“the last stand of the Rockefeller country clubbers”
you betcha!
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