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The Year of the Reticent Voter
Wall Street Journal ^
| 09/23/2016
| Peggy Noonan
Posted on 09/23/2016 5:10:19 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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In a country of 320 million . . . I hear it everywhere. It ends with howd it come down to these two? or whyd we get them?
Wrong years. I said that mainly in 2012, but also in 2008 and 1996.
Another sentence is a now a common greeting among Republicans who havent seen each other in a while: What are we gonna do?
Peggy, you and I must hang out with different Republicans.
To: Dr. Sivana
True. The comment I hear most frequently from REAL Republicans is “Finally!”
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:12:51 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Dr. Sivana
a sophisticated Manhattan man friendly with all sidesI assume she thinks that's a positive description, but to me, it conveys "alien."
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:14:02 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
To: Tax-chick
Poor Peggy. Lost in the thickets of Manhattan.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:17:27 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop the Left and save the world.)
To: Dr. Sivana
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:21:40 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
To: Dr. Sivana
I didn’t read the full article, but maybe she means that 50% of the Trump voters will refuse to admit it afterwards. If so, that is good news—it would mean he gets 80 million votes. The most anyone has ever received was Obama with 69.5 million in 2008. Of course it is a little harder for a Republican since all the votes have to come from living persons.
To: Tax-chick
At this point in time one who claims to be friendly with all sides is fooling some one. Most likely themselves. They will, and should be, taken for a fool by both sides.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:25:01 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: mindburglar
The question I both ask and answer for my lib friends is, “what is a neo-con?” Answer, “The Never Trumpers.” Then I say, these are the Republicans aligned with Hillary Clinton and the Establishment.
They lose it.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:25:39 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Trump will win New York.)
To: Dr. Sivana
agree! youre either out of touch, Peggy, or youre a damn liar like the rest of the dinosaur LSM. More likely the latter.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:27:10 AM PDT
by
uncitizen
(JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
To: Dr. Sivana
We got Hillary because DWS stole the nomination for her from Bernie.
We got Trump because he beat the crap out of 16 ruthless, angry, and extremely well-financed opponents.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:27:20 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity)
To: Verginius Rufus
Maybe it is just because I “don’t know anyone who voted for Hillary” but I do believe she is going to get a whipping of astronomical proportions. Which would give me great hope for our future.
The fact that I don’t know anyone that would vote for her I consider an evidence of my discernment of character...
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:29:17 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
That’s a good point. For some of them, support of the Never Trumpers (and her direct pitch to them) delegitimizes her as a true Democrat. Her ads showing Romneys and Bushes and Sucan Collins type bashing Trump earns few Republican votes who mostly hate the party regulars and drives some Dems over to Johnson and Stein.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:29:34 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: wastoute
I think you can be “friendly with both sides” if you sincerely believe that, regardless of what happens, you will be insulated - by your wealth, education, “sophistication” - from any negative outcome.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:33:39 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
To: Dr. Sivana
BS. Romney and the kenyan were a far, far worse choice than Trump and Hillary Criminal.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:34:44 AM PDT
by
lodi90
(Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
To: Dr. Sivana
"I hear it everywhere" and
"a sophisticated Manhattan man" tells you all you need to know of the value of Peggy Noonan's observations and opinions on Trump's presidential run.
For Noonan everywhere means wherever the elite and enlightened live. Or those places buffered from the engineered destruction of middle-class America in favor of a globalist model of privileged elites and dependent peons.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:36:44 AM PDT
by
drpix
To: Dr. Sivana
what a load! saw polls on fox the other night regarding how certain people were to stay with their choice, 90% and upward
To: Louis Foxwell
She wouldn’t know anyone from drive by America if they bit her on the ass. Just another leeching elite running on has-been 15 minutes of fame.
Peggy, we don’t trust or believe anything you people say anymore.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:47:07 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Dr. Sivana
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 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. -Peggy Noonan, Oct 31, 2008-
Sorry, Peggy, your opinion was, and is, worth squat.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:55:26 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Go Trump!)
To: IronJack
I’m only a Republican because the darn Neanderthal party hasn’t gotten any traction yet.
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posted on
09/23/2016 5:59:36 AM PDT
by
Shark24
(.)
To: Dr. Sivana
WSJ owned buy Murduck and Noonan are a perfect match.
Both of them can go to hell!
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posted on
09/23/2016 6:09:01 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(I'm a Crude Populist & Deplorable Trump supporter since July 2015! I will proudly vote for Trump!.)
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