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.
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That would be alright by me. I will NEVER vote for an Establishment, uni party, candidate again.
The argument of course is well then your just going to put the liberal dem in. Probably. I won’t give The GOP Establishment a win just so they can stab me in the back again.
At this point, what difference does it make?
The final straw on this camel’s back was the last redistricting. I’m now in a 75% Democrat district, thanks to the Uniparty. It’s a gerrymandered district that runs from North Dallas to Fort Worth. Politicians seeking my support will be wasting my time. I’ll stick with supporting the True Texas Project, but that’s it.
Apoplectic is more accurate.
If Trump Republicans pi$$ her off, wait til she gets a load of Donald Dems...
Noonan can go take a long walk off a short pier.
Peggy Noonan’s claim to fame is the three years she spent as a Ronald Reagan speechwriter. There were others too, who served at the same time. Presidents have 3-4-5 speechwriters at any given time.
As far as I am concerned, she has done nothing notable since. She worked a bit for President George H. W. Bush
Maybe 24 will become another “anybody but” situation.
Anybody but Hillary
Anybody but Michelle.
Anybody but Oprah.
Anybody but Kamala.
Anybody but Joey.
“Trump Republicans” nominate the former president next year, “they will have ended the Republican Party.”
Been trying since Bob Dole...
Here’s mine: Anybody but Democrats and RINOs.
I don’t like political parties. They are corrupt, self serving, and care nothing for Americans.
Noonan is so YESTERYEAR she, and her writing, belongs in a MUSEUM!
Is that quivering old bag still alive?!
Too bad
RE: Is that quivering old bag still alive?!
She’s younger than Donald Trump.
Do you believe Donald Trump could win the general election in 2024?:
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Pompous snob comes to mind when I hear Peggy Noonan’s name.
“Here’s mine: Anybody but Democrats and RINOs.”
I don’t disagree, but the game ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings.
And I say that because in my 50 years of voting from local elections to National I have been disappointed far more times than I was satisfied with the outcome.
Where is that piano wire?
Exactly.
Noonan and the rest of the GOP elites should consider the Republican voters who see this as a win-win.
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