Posted on 06/07/2012 6:17:46 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Great post and accurate summation!
Peggy Noonan used to be a strongly reliable conservative voice until sometime in the mid 2000s.
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EXACTLY! I don’t know what happened to her when she backslid, but every time she opened her mouth, she made me ill as well as very angry. She went RINO on us at best, Liberal at worst. I blamed it on menopause.
I was born in Wisconsin, as was the Republican Party!
And I knocked on 3000 doors for Walker and was 15 feet from him at his Victory Party,
Reagan Palin Walker - Three of a kind!
By Peggy Noonan. I believe the sentiment expressed “FUPN” in a previous post is most appropriate:
Obama and the Runaway Train
The race, the case, a hope for grace.
The Wall Street Journal: October 29, 2008
The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes:
He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took do
Can’t think of any writer I respect LESS than Noonan, especially after her twin disgraces of 2008, in her elitist condescention of Palin and her slobbering adoration of Obama. Noonan repulses me to the very core.
Sorry Peggy - fool me once, shame on you - I won’t give you a chance to fool me twice!
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Good summary of Peggy Who.
Excellent observations. I’m impressed...and I’m stealing it.
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Of course, I’ll give you credit, in terms of “a poster on FR”. But seriously, I think you punched through to the heart of the matter and are spot on, on all counts.
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