Noonan: "Tea Party Style Of Rage Is Not One That Wins Over Converts"

RCP Video ^ | 11-11-2012

[Sir Napsalot]

(snip) “It can move forward things in a good way. I think the tea party is going to have to look at itself,” Noonan added. “It’s been so helpful to the Republican Party in the past. It saved it by not going third party in 2010, helping the Republicans sweep the House. But the tea party style of rage is not one that wins over converts and makes people lean towards them and say, ‘I want to listen to you.’ I think a friendly persuasion has to begin now from the Republican Party to people of the United States.”

[gusty]

Who said anything about waiting. Start today recruiting and training the next candidates for whatever election. All I’m asking is that could we at least set some kind of minimal standard for intelligence. It doesn’t do anyone good to send out babbling morons as our standard bearers. We have sunk real low when expecting candidates for high office to be highly intelligent is controversial.

[cripplecreek]

On election eve Brit Hume was basically calling the race at 8:00 pm and saying that social conservatives had kept Romney in a box and cost him the race.

[jwalsh07]

I thought ‘Raging Against the Machine” was a good thing.

[smokingfrog]

You are so right, Peggy. I’ll just go back to knitting tea cosies while the constitution is trampled into the dust.

/S

[piasa]

Yet liberal rage and moonbattery apparently wins converts.

Perhaps our problem is that we aren't crazy enough, so the Crazocrats are winning over all the insane people.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I notice she didn't point out any examples of "Tea Party rage."

Probably because the only "examples" she could come up with are such obvious false-flag operations that she knows she won't get away with using them, so she simply smears the Tea Party and moves on.

[frnewsjunkie]

The hatred for the Conservatives comes from every corner. There is a condescending tone in every comment coming from those who want us to shut up and take it.
Not going to happen... they have gone way over the line. They don’t realize they have voted in their own demise as well. They would go down with the ship rather than save the country. For revenge.

[Blue Highway]

Britt Hume seems more and more like a RINO. There was a time he seemed like a straight shooter

[cashless]

So Peggy “Fig” Noonan thinks the “rage” of the TEA ( it's all caps,you stupid cow) party is the problem. Spoken like the elitist Establishment Republican she is. She needs to take her Progressivism to where it can be appreciated: the DNC. Easy for an old, I mean really, really old white woman who writes for a living and is overpaid for her insight, to say. If she wants rage, she should try to stand between an Obama lover and their Obamaphone.

[Unam Sanctam]

The problem with this is that the Romney campaign was all friendly persuasion and no rage, and it didn’t win. I just think the country is screwed no matter what. The American people have changed.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Dear Peggy...

Holding a passionate commitment to the defense of our Constitution...
....the representative republic founded upon it....
.... the way of life we have enjoyed for 237 years....
....Even this beautiful homeland in which we dwell...
...as has been necessary from time-to-time since 1812

Hon...
It's called patriotism.....
loyalty....
...love of country...

Get a grip..
...darlin'

[meyer]

I think that as long as Nooner has a column in the WSJ, I’m going to let my subscription run out. I don’t want to hear from any more liberal morons - I want to hear from realists. She ain’t a realist.

[Drawsing]

Everyone thinks they know what it takes to win people to their side. In our culture it mostly involves figuring out how to avoid offending everyone. I have a suggestion: Try truth. Try acquiring a few principles and sticking to them. Try forgetting about how the message sounds and simply sound the message.

Yes you will offend people...truth always does. But this nation is starved for truth tellers. Resist the temptation to fashion and mold your message like playdough so that it slides easily into everyone’s ears. Forget about polls and advisers and hand-wringers. I truly believe that an office-seeker with this attitude will win elections.

[cripplecreek]

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren (Dec 2011)

They (the GOP) believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives. They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers. They're embarrassing to have to go to the convention with them. And they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party. They're dumb. They're not erudite. They're not educated in Ivy League schools. We'll take their votes on election day, but we really don't want to hang around with them. We don't want anybody in Washington thinking that we're really that close to them and aligned with them. So in the process -- you know, it's a very sophisticated electorate. The Republican primary voter can sense that the Republican Party really doesn't like them, really doesn't want them, thinks that they are the route to defeat. That's the problem in a nutshell. The Republican establishment thinks that a conservative nominee is the route to defeat because they think Goldwater landslides are going to happen because they believe what the popular misconception the left has created of conservatives -- they think everybody thinks that.

The crazy thing is that they're going after us the same way George Romney attacked Barry Goldwater. They might want to take a look at history and see how it turned out. They may have stopped Goldwater from becoming president, but George Romney threw his future of a cliff in the process.

[IncPen]

Will no one take away this stupid woman’s keyboard?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Why would anyone listen to this cow’s mewling??? - her admiration for what a swell president Obama would make in 2008 helped legitimize his candidacy with moderates and lead to his election - she is more responsible than any ten tea partiers put together for the situation were’re in today.....

[lu shissler]

Noonan was gone from the news for a couple years after the disastrous 2008 election. She needs to go away again permanently FOREVER!! She hated the Tea Party then and she still does.

Yes, Peggy, you really are irrelevant.

[billys kid]

On election eve Brit Hume was basically calling the race at 8:00 pm and saying that social conservatives had kept Romney in a box and cost him the race

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I was disgusted with Hume and switched to FBN

Lou Dobbs was furious and could not understand why the GOPe
put such a strangle hold on the Tea Party’s neck and he described it as choking the LIFE out of what has been a good and honorable movement at such a dangerous time in America.

He was devastated.

Lou Dobbs gets it.

[cripplecreek]

the GOPe put such a strangle hold on the Tea Party’s neck and he described it as choking the LIFE out of what has been a good and honorable movement at such a dangerous time in America.

We have been the ones to make all the compromises and have supported their moderates as a means of winning and as soon as their moderation loses, they immediately turn on us.

However, even if they win, they will always turn on us once they've gotten the power they wanted.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“But the tea party style of rage”

What rage? I’ve never seen it. You’re a lying bitch.