She's unhinged, Jim
Posted on 06/05/2023 7:03:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan decided to be a presidential candidate next year, she would be barred from the debates.
The GOP debate rules include a pledge to support the Republican 2024 presidential nominee and Ms. Noonan makes it clear, from the opening paragraph of her latest weekend column that she would not back a Trump candidacy.
Noonan declares in her lede paragraph that if "Trump Republicans" nominate the former president next year, "they will have ended the Republican Party." That there be no mistaking her comment as mere figurative remark, she declares in the following paragraph: "I mean it literally. The GOP will disappear as a party. Meaning the primary national vehicle of conservative thought and policy will disappear."
As the title of this screed indicates -- "Chris Christie and the Republican Party's Peril'' -- Noonan spends half the column discussing the "expected" entry of the former bullying governor of New Jersey in the GOP 2024 presidential field. (Is such an entry now viable in view of the requirement that all presidential debaters pledge their support for the nominee? Christie backing Mr. Trump? Not likely.)
This is to suggest that Peggy Noonan should receive the Liz Cheney Award for Political Prognostication Premised on Poor Perceptions of Donald J. Trump. More briefly, Peggy Noonan abhors the idea that conservatism should be tempered by populism, rather than elitism.
The neo-totalitarians in our politics are desperately straining to convince the American people that they are incipient terrorists if they support conservative populism, better known today as the MAGA movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Good luck with all that.
And like she's on her 2nd bottle of Chardonnay.
Peggy is correct! If Trump is nominated 3rd time, it means the GOPe is in dire straits.
GOP was dead before Trump came along.
If Peggy is against Trump then I must be FOR him.
the gop is in dire straights because it hates its base and would really prefer that we all FOAD. T$ is the only thing keeping them afloat
The GOP exists for the same reason the Washington Generals do.
I prefer the term “Trump Americans”, the Republican Party can FOAD.
“they will have ended the Republican Party.”
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There is no downside.
“The GOP exists for the same reason the Washington Generals do.”
Why? Because “somebody” needs to be pretending they’re actually doing something to stop the bad guys?
What a disgrace she has become. Just another NeoCon.
Well I wouldn't call the Globetrotters "the bad guys", but the point is, it's to create the illusion of choice.
“GOP was dead before Trump came along.”
And because of the same pretenders that we’ve been calling Uniparty RINOs for decades.
“Well I wouldn’t call the Globetrotters “the bad guys”, but the point is, it’s to create the illusion of choice.”
No, the bad guys being the DS leftist Democrats and their globalist masters.
You get old, your eyesight weakens. I thought he said “clitism” I wondered what that meant.
Looking closer, I saw the word was “elitism”. OOPS!
FPN
That’s the key phrase that explains where we are. The “illusion of choice”.
This keeps up I’m gonna have to vote Trump.
Thanks for your input Peg but we've already read your piece and found it wanting.
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