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Alabama Women, Say No to Roy Moore
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 16th, 2017 | By Peggy Noonan

Posted on 11/22/2017 3:46:03 PM PST by Mariner

Alabama has its back up, or at least its Republicans and conservatives do, and it’s understandable. They don’t like when Northerners and liberals and people in Washington tell them who their senator should be. They don’t like when reporters from outside come down and ask questions and turn over rocks looking for what’s crawling on the underside. There’s always an underside. Man is made from crooked timber.

People from the Deep South feel culturally patronized. This is because they are. Reporters from outside don’t admire or relate to them; when a Washington Post journalist presented as fact, in a 1993 news report, that evangelical Christians are “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command,” you know he was thinking of Southern evangelicals. Hollywood has long cast Southerners as witless and brutish in films from “Inherit the Wind” to “Deliverance” and “Mississippi Burning.”

Politically, Southern conservatives have long decried a double standard. Ted Kennedy spent much of his life as a somewhat inebriated roué whose actions caused the death of a young woman, but now we’re instructed to call him the Lion of the Senate. Bill Clinton was worse than Roy Moore. Mr. Clinton was accused of rape, harassment and exposing himself, but his party backed him and he kept the presidency. Democratic Sen. Al Franken was credibly accused Thursday, by an anchor at KABC radio in Los Angeles, of groping and harassing her on a USO tour in 2006. When she resisted him, Leeann Tweeden wrote, “Franken repaid me with petty insults,” and took an obscene photo of her on the way home, as she slept. Will the liberal media dig into Mr. Franken as they have dug into Mr. Moore? Or is he too good a source and friend?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; douchejones; dougjones; peggynoonan; roymoore; roymooreelection; roymoorepoll
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To: Mariner; DoughtyOne; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; Liz; Grampa Dave; LS
...her superb written communications skills.

True, a virtuoso writer, a bit like the famous violinist Niccolò Paganini.  But some said Paganini became great because he sold his soul to the Devil.

Peggy Noonan became famous writing speeches for Reagan.  But if Reagan treasured a nation ruled by We The People, how could Noonan betray that cause by becoming a defender of the corporatist elite and oligarchy?

She's a traitor. She is using her former privileged access to Reagan to destroy Reagan's legacy.

The greatest living speechwriter today works for President Trump.  He's Stephen Miller, a patriot and active advocate for the MAGA cause, -- a man who lives the noble phrases and ideas he puts down on paper.

So I raise my Thanksgiving wine glass to Mr. Miller!  May you live long and prosper, Sir!


81 posted on 11/23/2017 3:34:35 AM PST by poconopundit (SHOE REPAIR SHOP: "We will heel you. We will save your sole. We will even dye for you")
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To: Mariner
I guess you KNOW that Peggy Noonan has been a BIG "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" SUPPORTER ever since she worked with the first Bush. Other examples of Noonan's lack of conservatism: And you thought Peggy Noonan was a conservative ? ? ?

What have you been smoking ?
82 posted on 11/23/2017 3:50:42 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Mariner

can you post this one I have 1 finger that functions well, 1 slightly, hand surgery left my dominate hand near useless even after 13 weeks of rehab.

SPREAD IT AROUND: POST IF YOU CAN. TRYING TO DO THINGS WITH A USELESS DOMINATE RIGHT HAND IS NOT EASY. 2 FINGER TYPING IS THE PITS.

Alabama Senate hopeful Doug Jones defended man with ties to KKK, Holocaust deniers

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/22/alabama-senate-hopeful-doug-jones-defended-man-with-ties-to-kkk-holocaust-deniers.html


83 posted on 11/23/2017 6:52:28 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: Mariner

Noonan has become part of the DC Swamp over the years.

She is just another GOPE paid whore!

Enjoy the sunlight Peggy! (see my tagline)


84 posted on 11/23/2017 7:00:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The fastest way to drain the swamp is to simply expose it! Sunlight does aid in evaporation!)
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