So Much To Savor (WSJ's Peggy Noonan is BACK!!!)

Opinionjournal.com | 10/04/04 | Peggy Noonan

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God bless our country.

Hello, old friends. Let us savor.

Let us get our heads around the size and scope of what happened Tuesday. George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936. This is huge.

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Friends, Peggy Noonan's back. Let's savor a huge victory. Its time to party!!!

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Oops. Forgot the link. Here it is:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110005844

[soccer_linux_mozilla]

2004 Latest vote, county by county - Colored counties are those where a candidate has won with 100% of precincts counted.

[Ksnavely]

As with all major historical events I have personally experienced in my life, I don't think I have fully grasped the scape and magnitude of it yet. It is hard to really fully understand when your in the middle of it all. But I am riding high on cloud nine today, and probably will be for the sustainable future.

[jocon307]

LOL, you are QUICK! I figured she's have a piece on Opinion Journal today, glanced at the clock 15 mins ago, and said, too soon.

Peggy done good!

America is saved for 4 more years, western civ for a while at least. This election was quite as important as she said it was when she left off writing her column.

God bless her!

[Huck]

Really great column. I got tears in my eyes.

[mylife]

Watched Peggy tonight. She is correct, this is Huge.

[Aussie Dasher]

NOONAN '08!

[Theresawithanh]

Yay, Peggy's back! This is a great column, and there is indeed much to savor about election 2004!

[NYURepublican]

I loved that huge ping for Rush, Hannity, and Laura at ht eend

[wildbill]

So many heroes. Not a few of them can be found at this site.
Congrats to all.

Hoo-ah!

[builder]

Amen. Peggy is my favorite. In her list to savor: I add her name.

Everyone should click on this and read her latest. Big props to the pajamamadheen

[Brett66]

Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? It is easy to say Mr. Kerry: he was a poor candidate with a poor campaign. But I do think the biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief--CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election--the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down. It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America. It was Agincourt. It was the yeomen of King Harry taking down the French aristocracy with new technology and rough guts. God bless the pajama-clad yeomen of America. Some day, when America is hit again, and lines go down, and media are hard to get, these bloggers and site runners and independent Internetters of all sorts will find a way to file, and get their word out, and it will be part of the saving of our country.

[oprahstheantichrist]

"I loved that huge ping for Rush, Hannity, and Laura at ht end"

Hugh Hewitt didn't buy it either!

[Ruth A.]

the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936. This is huge.

And this is only from the first paragraph! Peggy is loaded for bear. Savor. She puts everything to context with an historical eye and intelligence missing in the MSM--or old media. Savor.

[sockmonkey]

I thought the "voice" on the GOP's wolves commercial sounded like Peggy Noonan's.

[Vision Thing]

I saw Peggy on H&C. It's so good to see her again.

I'm glad to see she's posting her heartfelt and encouraging words again on OpinionJournal.com. Whoever employed her during Campaign 2004 was lucky to have the benefit of her time and skills.

[goldstategop]

Let hear it for the Pajamahadeen! (Cheers)

[mylife]

Now I can sleep, fitfully.

Thanks Peggy

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Peggy Noonan is one of my favorite writers. Her piece is truly one to savor.

It can be bitterly frustrating being a conservative and a Republican in San Francisco – watching your congressional candidates go down to defeat by 75%/25% margins year after year, not having a single statewide Republican office holder except the RINO Governor, keeping your political views to yourself because they could cost you your job.

Today made up for all of that and more.

- Just walking down Market Street and seeing the shocked and outraged looks on the faces of the people you meet was almost worth having Tom Lantos as your Congressman.
- The realization that a large part of the reason George Bush won was because people in 11 states turned out in large numbers to pass gay marriage bans and that your dim bulb Mayor was a large part of the reason for those initiatives is enough to warm the heart all by itself.
- Asking the IBEW data cabling contractor where his Kerry button was and being told that “I don’t have to wear that f***ing thing anymore.”
- Having a good laugh while watching the SFPD chase anti-Bush demonstrators down Market Street in the minutes after Kerry’s concession speech.

San Francisco is too cool a place to leave completely to the degenerates. I’ll stick around, if just to watch them squirm. Besides, there are still a lot of good people here – mostly Italians, Chinese and Filipinos and except for the admittedly superior barbecue and pizza in some other places, it’s still the best eats in the country.

To the good people of Ohio I would like to quote a Rush's theme song and British leftist Crissey Hines – HEY HO WAY TO GO OHIO!