She's compromised her credibility irreparably.
Yep. She dug her own grave.
She's compromised her credibility irreparably.
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Yes she did -- and I am still amazed at her stance and commentary.
She lost me last summer when she bemoaned the president's campaign focus on the war, urging him to change the tone and make clear that he "hates war, really hates it, and loves peace." Americans were growing tired of the drama of the times, tired of war, and want to get back to their lives, she wrote. They want drama on a personal level but not a historical level ... blah-blah-yadda-yadda. It was one in a series of columns filled with similarly self-absorbed touchy-feely dreck. (Speak, Softly, Mr. Bush)
I always found Noonan to be a bit cloying, melodramatic, pretentious, and too reliant on flowery emotion at the expense of logic, but I still read her stuff because of her obvious writing skills and her earlier work was often so damn good(What I Saw at the Revolution was an especially good book). Now, though, I usually scroll past her articles because she mostly bores the heck out of me.
"She's compromised her credibility irreparably."
Credibility before men is way overrated.
I wish people would back off on Peggy. She's still sharp, and even though she's out of my league, I'm not ashamed to say that she puts the jelly in my jam.
I'm not at the point of abandoning Peggy yet. But 'gone wobbly' is sums up my perception well.
-- Joe