Posted on 07/10/2009 6:16:22 AM PDT by libstripper
Sarah Palin's resignation gives Republicans a new opportunity to see her plain—to review the bidding, see her strengths, acknowledge her limits, and let go of her drama. It is an opportunity they should take. They mean to rebuild a great party. They need to do it on solid ground.
Her history does not need to be rehearsed at any length. Ten months ago she was embraced with friendliness by her party. The left and the media immediately overplayed their hand, with attacks on her children. The party rallied round, as a party should. She went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be. She was hungry, loved politics, had charm and energy, loved walking onto the stage, waving and doing the stump speech. All good. But she was not thoughtful. She was a gifted retail politician who displayed the disadvantages of being born into a point of view (in her case a form of conservatism; elsewhere and in other circumstances, it could have been a form of liberalism) and swallowing it whole: She never learned how the other sides think, or why.
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Piggy Blowhard?
Ohy phuleeeeeze...
Peggy, you are going to live to severely regret your words.
Peggy Noonan is embracing the concubine media’s massive pride before (or actually during) its fall.
Winning ticket for 2012: Palin / Cheney (Liz, that is).
I’d pay good money to see one of those chick fight cage matches between Sarah and this beltway twit.
Whatta Dunce! I lost it (for the 3rd but most major time) when I got to this paragraph:
“Here are a few examples of what we may face in the next 10 years: a profound and prolonged American crash, with the admission of bankruptcy and the spread of deep social unrest; one or more American cities getting hit with weapons of mass destruction from an unknown source; faint glimmers of actual secessionist movements as Americans for various reasons and in various areas decide the burdens and assumptions of the federal government are no longer attractive or legitimate.”
She helped us get to this point with all her Obama swooning. She clearly has a thing about Palin — younger, prettier, more baseline conservative (Peggy is apparently a thinking conservative, like Chris Buckley et al, the kind who can endorse Obama as opposed to an instinctive conservative, the kind that knows what’s conservative before having to write out a couple thousand words about it.)
It would truly be an odd thing to take advice from this sad a-rational loon — rather like being Catholic & taking advice from Doug Kemic.
We smell it but the people she hangs with smell like her as well. They cancel each other out.
Pardon my French but
WHAT A BITCH! (Noonan not Palin)
My entrails now are spread across the desk in front of me, so hard did I retch. In fact, violent nausea began when I saw the headline.
Noonan has adopted many annoying schticks but one that grates the most is her view from her perch, rambling on about the republic and so forth as if she’s Abe Lincoln. This is the same person who wrote fawning Tiger Beat stories about Barack Obama so it’s a bit late in the game to be talking about the future of the republic as the US circles the drain of socialism.
I avoid Mo Dowd columns on principle. Never though I would have to say same about Peggy Noonan.
Maybe I'm wrong but I really think these people are going to be in for a rude awakening if they think she is going away now.
We have a saying in my line of work about 'going native'.
I appreciate Peggy's point about needing to understand your enemy in order to more thoroughly defeat him. A superficial understanding of your opponent does not lead to victory. Getting in the enemy's head is crucial, but there is a danger in doing so.
If you stare too long into the abyss, as they say, the abyss stares into you. If you ever become so used to seeing things from the enemy's point of view that you start to mistake it as your own, it's time to retire.
Peggy, you were great, once, but it's time to retire.
Her take on a perfectly innocent public servent - who, incidently did quite well for Alaska is terroristic.
I will make a point of reading more of miss peggy just to see if she was only drunk when she wrote this or if she is indeed so gut wrenchingly stupid.
Shame we couldn't say the same about the man at the top of the ticket and the venal incompetent jackals serving as his advisers to say nothing of milquetoast DC/Manhattan RINOs.
Peggy’s problem, of course, is that she never looked seriously at the Palin who worked to reform Alaska government and actually worked with a coalitinon of Democrats and Republicans to move the state forward from the mess that Murkowski’s people made. Noonan basically proceeds from the Democratic Narrative.
How freaking lazy.
Best,
Chris
Ah, Peggy — why??
That sort of assessment is no more fair than if I were to judge Peggy solely by the recollections of her ex-husband's divorce lawyer.
I’ve long-since chalked up Noonan as a complete idotic, self-absorbed bytch that irritates me MORE than fingernails on a chalkboard. She’s a legend in her own mind....matter-of-fact, she’s OUT of it! :(
Whatever Noonan used to have, she’s lost it.
I can’t believe that at one time I used to read the crap this woman produced, or that she actually used to write speeeches for Reagan.
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