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"It's not right to accuse people without proof, or throw ill-founded insults. Peggy Noonan's article, not her motivations and all other deep, dark things of her soul, is what this thread should be about. Bashing it and bashing her are very different things."

Exactly.

Noonan is, like me, a former Democrat. She is more moderate than me, so I expect her views will often challenge those of the Republican leadership.

Thats a GOOD thing, cause we aren't getting much honest debate from the Dems - we need *some* kind of opposition.

I cannot believe the comments I've seen here, not attacking her work, but lewd juvenille character attacks on a woman who is as much of this party as Ronald Reagan ever was. It makes me embarassed to be a part of FR. You need to wake up and start acting like a frickin MAJORITY party - that means listening closely to your friends, telling them they're wrong if you think so, but not debasing them like the DUmmies do. Otherwise, people like me (who were on the team delivering a 300,000 vote margin in FL) will walk and you can get used to hearing President Clinton for another eight years.

Retards.

My friend, referring to your brethren on FR as "retards" tends to undermine the message that you were attempting to convey.

I believe that it is Noonan who needs to act like we are in a majority. Slamming the President the night of his inauguration, referring to his vision as "mission inebriation," and saying that the speech was "drenched" with God is more than a polite and civil disagreement. From a fellow republican, her comments do not appear to be constructive.

Personally, I find her comments debasing to the Presidnet and obnoxious. I cannot understand why she thinks that the speech referred to God too much. But rather than accuse her of anything, though, I, and I suspect many others, will choose to deal with her like I deal with all debasing and obnoxious person: I will ignore her. And I suspect her irrelevance will become apparent.

To paraphrase the immortal words of Mr. T, in Rocky III, I don't hate Miss Noonan, I pity the fool.

" will walk and you can get used to hearing President Clinton for another eight years. "

What kind of person has a problem of toooooooo much "GOD". The whole world has been itching that Bush is arrogant, dictator, Nazi-like, and a host of all manner of names, along comes a supposed 'good' person and their biggest problem with the President's speech is there is toooooo much "GOD".

I heard supposed conservatives so very proud of themselves telling with glee how they stayed home in 1998 and the House of Representative darn near went back to the leftists.

Why is your right to be offended so very much more important than anyone else, so much so with glee you would turn the reign of power over to another Clinton.

So you go for it!