Miles To Go(Peggy Noonan)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 9/12/08 | Peggy Noonan

[DallasBiff]

Democrats, hit reset. Accept the fact that the race has changed utterly, that you're up against a ticket that has captured the public imagination. Now you must go out and recapture it.

Out of the shirtsleeves, into the suit. Stop prowling the stage with what looks like Phil Donahue's old mic. No more scattered, listless riffs; back to the podium and the prepared—and focused—speech. Campaign as a duo, Obama-Biden, together again. Obama alone looks like he's part of nothing.

You must aim your fire at the top of the ticket, John McCain, and not at this beautiful girl, Sarah Palin, about whom you can do nothing.

You can never kill her now. Forget it. She can hurt herself, but in terms of Democratic attacks she is bulletproof. You made her that—she wasn't that way when she walked in

[DallasBiff]

Poor Peggy, she disses Gov. Palin at the convention, and now she can't be knocked out by her MSM friends and elite in which Ms. Noonan has become.

Peggy is like Obama, in that Gov. Palin(a rural rube, in Peggy's eyes) has stolen her spotlight, and Peggy's spotlight is that as being the womens voice of the GOP, and she can't stand it.

[bahblahbah]

She did not diss Palin, she’s rightly worried about the people who are handling Palin...

[DeusExMachina05]

Peggy went native..too much time on Manhattan has addled her thinking. I dont trust a word she says anymore.

[Tax-chick]

There are some smart observations and a lot of air in this article.

[Luke21]

It’s kind of sad. I figured she’d hide out for a week and then write a puff piece saying in effect “Please, please please like me again.”

We can forgive, but trusting what she writes is something else entirely.

[bmwcyle]

No she diss Sarah and she is trying to recover. This is not the first time she showed her elite NYC side. Peggy is a two faced B*%ch.

[Notwithstanding]

Have you seen Pegs on her chick website with all her mostly manhattany leftist friends?

http://www.wowowow.com/about

“wowOwow is a free daily Internet website created, run and written by Lesley Stahl, Peggy Noonan, Liz Smith, Joni Evans, Mary Wells, Sheila Nevins, Joan Juliet Buck, Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Reed, Joan Ganz Cooney, Judith Martin, Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, and Marlo Thomas.”

[IncPen]

Peggy: I’m tired of being lectured by someone who fusses over their copy as much as you do. George Bush didn’t hire you as a speechwriter, and we’re better for it.

[iowamark]

"Normal versus Sissy"

[Jedidah]

I don’t think you read the column.

I liked it, found it fair, thoughtful, and pretty much mirrors my own thoughts.

Obama’s response to Palin has been downright stupid.

[maica]

I stopped reading Peggy Noonan after she joined the msnbc crowd and seemed to sell her pen/keyboard to the Manhattan A-list party people.

She has reverted to her democrat roots, but is trying to disguise it to keep her credentials as a conservative voice on the network. She is as conservative as Lincoln Chafee now.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Accept the fact that the race has changed utterly, that you're up against a ticket that has captured the public imagination.

But Peggy, YOU said at the convention that McCain's strategy of picking Palin for her "narrative" would not work and that it was over!

[LibLieSlayer]

noonan pulling for her home team... take up bowling you has been, no talent hack... I'll bet someone wrote those two speeches of Reagan's for you... HACK!

LLS

[PowderMonkey]

Sorry, but it is indeed dissing. Peggy Noonan among all her contemporaries in the MSM knows better. Here's the clue. Look for it from now on: the correct form of address is GOVERNOR PALIN. Not “Sarah Palin”, nor “Ms. Palin.” “Governor” is the title which she rightfully earned, and should be used in addressing her. The MSM and Governor Palin’s detractors have studiously avoided using the title for good reason. It's disrespectfully and insulting.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

That is probably the case, since Peggy is trying to come home.

Sorry Peg, you’re dead to me.

[over3Owithabrain]

Exactly - she completely whiffed on the most important event of this political season. Was utterly wrong and out-of-touch. She views Palin the same way as her harpie upper-west side gal pals. Also, she cannot hide her Miss Daisy crush on Obama.

[wmileo]

Noonan’s writing skills may be as good as they ever were. I did not read the article so if someone who did says it was good, I will take their word on that. However, Noonan is not relevant anymore. There are new conservative female voices and writers in the new media such as Ingraham, Malkin, Coulter, etc who are far more interesting and with greater incite than Peggy.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Looks more like a web enabled Tupperware Party.

Bet it sounds like one, too. Fourteen women in a romm and there are fourteen conversations going on. Not one is listening.

[stevem]

Actually, this is vintage Peggy Noonan. For the most part these are sensible observations, although sometimes she loses me when she tries to make some equivalency connection.

Nevertheless, Republicans need to remember it's nearly two months until the election. It's a tough row to hoe.

I WOULD like to hear Obama actually speak about just one real issue. I would like it even more if his words on that subject matched his votes which are consistent.