[nicmarlo]

Daschle/Limbaugh (and now Peggy Noonan); another great article, ping.

. . . Let me not pick on a teenager, for teenagers are by definition unfinished. . . . Let's pick on adults. Let's pick on Tom Daschle. He, as a leader of a great political party . . . After the dreadful showing of the Democrats in the election he held a news conference in which he famously blamed Rush Limbaugh and other conservative radio talk show hosts for inciting people to . . . well, to not liking Tom Daschle. Rush says mean things about Tom. His listeners, who Tom Daschle subtly suggests are possibly unstable and insane--how could they not be, they're conservative--get a little too excited when they hear Rush, and start to make rude sounds. "The threat level goes up," says Tom Daschle.

Oh, please. Boo hoo. When people disagree with you they criticize you. . . .

Tom: Grownups pay a price for where they stand! Being put down by conservatives is the price you pay. Is it really too much?

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[Terriergal]

Good post!

[firewalk]

bump

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and the pingaroo !!

Well Anna, and Tom, I have never written of this or even spoken of it, but let me tell you something.

My political philosophy is conservative. I am pro-life. I live in New York City, surrounded by modern people. They are mostly left-wing, they are all pro-choice, many of them passionately and even furiously so. I have written books saying Ronald Reagan is a great man and Hillary Clinton is a bad woman. I know something about being a target, and I know something about hate mail. I have received not hundreds but thousands of the most personal and obscene denunciations; I have received death threats; I have been threatened with blackmail; I have been informed that I do not deserve to live; I have received a three page typed double spaced letter with perfect grammar and syntax the first sentence of which was "Dr. Ms Noonan, Let me explain to you why you are a . . ." and here I cannot suggest the word used. But damned if he didn't make a good case. I used to hear regularly from a woman who'd tell me she hopes I have a brain hemorrhage.

I have never talked about this because I would consider speaking of it both self-pitying and self-aggrandizing. But there's another reason. I'm a grownup. I know you pay a price for the stands you take.

It's a disputatious world. Rocks get thrown. I could make myself safer by changing my views, but why would I abandon what I think is true so that people I think are wrong will like me? That doesn't make sense. So I stand where I stand and pay. And you know what? Too bad. Tough. That's life. Nothing is free. If you hold a controversial position you will draw controversy and its cousins: denunciation, dislike, etc. It's the price you pay. And unlike Tom Daschle, I pay it without a taxpayer-funded security team to keep me safe.

[MeekOneGOP]

Man, lil' tommy da$$hole is catchin' holy he** over these stupid remarks isn't he? Well deserved too !

[4CJ]

I'm a grownup. I know you pay a price for the stands you take.

Bingo. And socialists want others to pay their price for them.

[ForGod'sSake]

Good read, and an especially good dissing of Dasshole. I suppose it takes a woman to point out the emasculation of men in our society, and that's essentially all it is. How is it that girlie-men like Tiny Tommy, who stands for nothing of substance, able to thrive in a nation where rugged individualism was the norm not so long ago? His smarmy glibness makes me want to puke, but then maybe I'm overreacting ; )

FGS

[.45MAN]

Good old Peggy she always come thru when you need her. How come this isn't on the front page of the newapapers...

[dansangel]

Great Noonan article. I have just one trifling observation:

But the scouts aren't denying him his right to be an atheist. They're denying him the right to be a BSA troop leader.

It's not a right to be a BSA troop leader. It is a privilege that must be earned.

[Bigg Red]

Great column. Thanks for the flag. I love Noonan!