The Trance Bush . . . Clinton . . . Bush . . . Clinton . . . Getting very sleepy . . . [Noonan]

Wall Street Journal ^ | Friday, October 5, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT | Peggy Noonan

[maine-iac7]

Isn’t there a person out there who is not crony-connected and just a continued same ‘ol, same ‘ol thing!?

[Texas2step]

Never understood the blind adoration people have for this perpetual whiner.

The adoration comes from the style of her writing, not the substance of what she writes. Unlike most writers, journalists, and commentators, Peggy is actually a talented writer.

It's too bad that she's not a true-blue conservative. I'm just glad that she's half-way conservative and that the libs don't have someone with her talent.

[ksen]

Glad to see you have no problem with having only Bushes and Clintons in power for going on a quarter century.

[weegee]

Note she’s running as “Hillary” (like Cher and Madonna), not Hillary Clinton or Mrs. Clinton.
One bit of Democrat backlash she faces in this race is that people see:

1980 Ronald Reagan/George HW Bush
1984 Ronald Reagan/George HW Bush
1988 George HW Bush/Dan Quayle
1992 Bill-Hillary Clinton (our first co-presidents)/Al Gore
1996 Bill-Hillary Clinton/Al Gore
2000 George W Bush/Dick Cheney
2004 George W Bush/Dick Cheney

and the possibly of Hillary Clinton again in immediate succession. Two families at the top for potentially 30 years (2008/2012).

What the Democrats don’t acknowledge is how incestuous their presidential tickets have always been. There hasn’t been a lot of blood in the running.

1892 Democrat ticket: Grover Cleveland/Adlai Stevenson WON
1896 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/Arthur Sewall(Thomas Watson) LOST
1900 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/Adlai Stevenson LOST
1908 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/John Kern LOST
1924 Democrat ticket: John Davis/Charles Bryan LOST
1952 Democrat ticket: Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman LOST
1956 Democrat ticket: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver LOST
1992 Democrat ticket: William Clinton/Albert Gore Jr. WON
1996 Democrat ticket: William Clinton/Albert Gore Jr. WON
2000 Democrat ticket: Albert Gore Jr./Joseph Lieberman LOST

A bunch of perpetual candidates in this list. Charles Bryan was the brother of perpetual presidential loser William Jennings Bryan (who also lost his fight against Darwinism in the 1920s). Two of the perpetual candidates held the office of VP; Adlai never got the presidency although his namesake grandson did get the nomination. Adlai II’s VP runing mate Estes Kefauver left fellow Tennessee senator Albert Gore Sr. in the dust (both tried to get the party nomination for president) thus passing the loser baton to another generation.

Don’t get started looking at how they all attended the same law schools at roughly the same time...

[oust the louse]

That means a Bush or Clinton continuously in the Administration (VP and President) for 35 years.

The plan is working for the global elitists. It's been in place and being executed in front of our noses...we are being taken down slowly but surely. The media?...they carry the water and condition the masses...

[cowdog77]

I’m with Noonan....

we need fresh blood.

[willgolfforfood]

With any luck, Web Hubbel’s daughter will finally get a chance to break this two family monopoly in 2016, or perhaps just after!!

[Darkwolf377]

While there's much here I like, her getting all mushy over Obama and Dodd is silly. Dodd is a thuggish buffoon, Obama's "thoughtfulness" is just as programmed as anything any other poltician does. I've never seen him in a spontaneous moment.

I like Peggy Noonan, but sometimes when she's on TV struggling and failing to rhapsodize, I wish the host would say "Oh, Peggy, come down to earth and just speak a normal sentence, we won't think less of you if you speak clearly."

[MK11]

Conditioning, indeed. Before long, Americans will be afraid to vote for someone who isn’t a Bush or Clinton.