Posted on 08/26/2011 9:29:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Bryan Preston
August 26, 2011
Ohfertheloveof…Peggy Noonan now thinks Rick Perry may just be too darn much of a strapping hot tempered he-man for America’s good.
His primary flaw appears to be a chesty, quick-draw machismo that might be right for an angry base but wrong for an antsy country. Americans want a president who feels their anger without himself walking around enraged…
[T]he nation is roiling and restive. After Mr. Obama was elected, the right became angry, feisty, and created a new and needed party, the tea party. The right was on fire. The next time a Republican wins, and that could be next year, it will be the left that shows real anger, with unemployment high and no jobs available and government spending and services likely to be cut. The left will be on fire. The only thing leashing them now is the fact of Mr. Obama.
So there will be plenty of new angers out there. It probably won’t be helpful if the next president is someone likely to add to the drama with a hot temperament or carelessness.
Peggy, you need to let go of the feely stuff and do some research. You also need to spend a few minutes with Perry or people who have spent time around him before writing about him. He’s not walking around enraged, hot-tempered and careless. At all. People who lack self control don’t rack up 9-0 records in political campaigns. They screw up, and either gaffe or tweet their way out of office, or lose the public’s patience and then lose elections.
The Bernanke comment was not a gaffe. It drew attention to a dangerous policy that’s worth opposing, and set up a two-man race for the presidency.
These are not the ‘roids you’re looking for.
It fascinates me, how the very same columnist who completely misread Barack Obama’s temperament is now misreading Rick Perry’s temperament. She and other elitist types saw in Obama’s grin and gauze, a first-class temperament. Never mind he had no experience relevant to the job he sought, and no track record of working with people outside his narrow ideological band. Obama has turned out to be a very thin-skinned man with extremely poor leadership skills and no evident capability to cast his gaze beyond his very narrow and rigid ideology. Noonan herself has noted what a lousy leader Obama has turned out to be. Perry, by contrast, is actually gregarious, quick-witted, and capable of re-examining the world to the point that like Peggy’s former boss, he switched from Democrat to Republican as his former party left him. Perry also was the first major politician in either party to allow scientists to study his own campaign to determine which techniques actually work and which ones don’t, and then applied that new knowledge to both his 2010 campaign and his current one. Perry’s stewardship of Texas shows that he does know how to lead a very large state very effectively. Incapable of controlling himself? The man shot a coyote that attacked his dog, killing it in one shot, on a morning jog. That’s what I call gun control.
What I’m saying in all that, is that Peggy Noonan doesn’t seem to have the foggiest idea what she’s talking about.
Look, we all get things wrong sometimes. Just about a week or so ago, I wrote a fierce little blog post, and went to someone who knew more about the subject than I did to double-check things, and my post turned out to be wrong. So I trashed it. It happens. You get carried away on a theme or a meme, past the point where the facts are keeping up with you. The proper thing to do is keep your mouse off the Publish button until you know more about your subject.
Peggy Noonan needs a fact-checker who knows the subjects she is writing about. She is a great writer but she has now publicly misread two pretty important figures in American life.
(h/t Hot Air)
ping
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
YOU WASHED-UP HACK
PLEASE. SHUT. UP.
Peggy is an idiot. I sure don’t want some strange man feeling my pain and the only protection he has to give me is keep the borders safe like the constitution states...National security....I wonder if she is the type of woman that wants her girlfriend to be a president like her. Soft and mushy.....
After hussein, I don't think there is such a thing as too "he-man" for America's own good.
Rick Perry? He's so far out in front of hussein in that department hussein can't even see him. Sarah Palin has hussein beat hands down there too. Heck, my spayed black lab is more of a he-man than hussein.
Some of our old friends, like Peggy Noonan and George Will seem to have retired to their intellectual retreat and not noticed as the world has passed them by.
“Peggy is an idiot.”
Yes, she is.
That's okay, she's writing to her friends on the dinner party circuit. They understand.
Did she ever admit she was wrong for slobbering all over the One in her columns from a few years ago?
Didn't think so. She's a chameleon.
Rush doesn't call them the drive-bys for nothing. When they're wrong, they just move on to their next mistake, as if the previous one never happened.
Increasingly, she seems like a little marble rolling around randomly on the empty deck of an abandoned yacht floating in the hot purple waters under the red sky of some distant planet.
Peggy Noonan made a fool of herslef in the last race -
Why would anyone be interested in her now?
She is a weak minded goof.
Kind of a Molly Ivins type, but less consistent. Remember her?
Noonan is a dingbat, she is ridiculous and pathetic.
I hope to detect testosterone these days, because the whiff of menthol cig breath and Washington effete-ism just doesn’t make me want to pull the lever....if you know what I’m sayin’.
Girls?
Well said ma dear :). couldn’t agree more.
Peggy,.....he was a cheerleader, who wore white tights, to cheer on other men to win a football game. He jumped up and down and yelled. Now, does that make you feel better to average down his machisimo so you can get in behind the man to get Obama to the hell out of Washington, D.C. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to (Jack Nicholson as Col. Jessup). Sorry.
Please post the photograph of Perry stepping on a C130 beside obama with he queer friend. Then Peggy, choose the right person who can bring this national nightmare (obama) to a merciful end.
Noonan is a masochist.
Que es mas macho?
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