Posted on 10/01/2010 5:40:31 AM PDT by libstripper
On a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., I found a note prominently displayed in my hotel room warning of the possibility of "extreme weather" including "tornadic activity." The clunky euphemism was no doubt meant to soften or obscure what they were obliged to communicate: There may be a tornado, look out.
That's what's going on nationally. Tornadoes are tearing up the political landscape.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
It is a good article. However, Peggy did not mention another war developing between two very important Democrat constituencies: Big Green and Big Labor. It’s very hard for steelworkers, miners, and teamsters to sign on to Big Green’s low carbon, clean tech advocacy.
Which is of course the worlds greatest roller coaster! Wow that brings back the childhood memories of the summer trip to Elitche’s when it was at 38 and Tennyson ... Before the new place!!! Thanks for the memories it was greatly appreciate on an otherwise mediocre Friday morning :)
Ah, she’s stating the obvious.
What is not so obvious is the prospect — the likelihood even — that Noonan and others are underestimating just how big this revolution is that we have unfolding.
Everyone is preoccupied with seat counts. But even if the Republicans “only” take 8 Senate seats, for example, the aftermath will be huge. As just one example, the Senate classes of 2012 and 2014 are much, much more lopsided toward the Dems. There just aren’t that many Dems up for election this year, and if the Republicans take 8 seats this time around, then the next two elections immediately shape up as potentially devastating to that party.
We are to the point that we should be discussing what happens after the Dems go down in November. My own assessment is that from an electoral perspective we are about to see the closest thing to a revolution that a democracy can unleash.
There's a kind of "conservative" who longs deep down in his soul to be respected by the left. They move and work in environments saturated by lefties, and they cannot (or will not) take the scorn, ridicule, and rejection lefties have for anyone not lefist.
So, this kind of affirmation-hungry conservative is always at pains to be "balanced," or "sophisticated," or to show that he, too, has an education.
Noonan is this kind of "conservative." I wonder that she garners the reputation of being conservative at all. It likely stems from her service as Reagan's speechwriter.
Noonan has a facility with words. Some parrots do too. And for the same reason: they're well trained. Noonan likes to crow when the sun comes up in the morning. And, for the same reason as the roosters: sheer, unthinking instinct.
This article is not "perceptive," if by that you mean she has detected something important but so subtle that it takes someone with acute powers of perception to discern it. As you point out, everyone here on Free Republic knew The One was a faker, fraud, and charlatan from the git go. If his character is so obvious to so many, it takes no special powers of perception to recognize what is, after all, obvious.
The One has been an eye-opener for many with respect to many things. Among those things is this: exposing people like Noonan, showing anyone who wants to look how shallow her "conservatism" really is.
Mile wide.
Inch deep.
What Brandybux said!
Too bad it's torn down and not effectively replaced in the new park by the river downtown.
Unpersuasive and uninsightful. Transparency just outs the hypocritical. It's better for Party unity in the future.
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