Posted on 04/23/2007 9:16:57 AM PDT by EveningStar
...Let me start by paying appropriate homage to Peggy Noonan. She’s a gifted wordsmith, and when she’s got her mojo working, she’s something to behold.
But Peggy also has a grating tendency to lapse into a nostalgist’s fondness for an idealized yesterday that never actually existed. Too often she dines out on an “ice cream cones were bigger then” shtick that is both inaccurate and irritating...
(Excerpt) Read more at hughhewitt.townhall.com ...
Peggy jumped the shark the day after the 2005 Innaugural.
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“Peggy jumped the shark the day after the 2005 Innaugural.”
Yep.
It kinda reminds me of Clint Eastwood, in the past few years, catering to the leftwing of Hollywood in search of a ‘legacy’.
Somebody tell Peggy she’ll never be invited to the liberal ‘cool kids table’.
She has become a bore.
Not sure I quite agree overall, but I WILL say I’m starting get a whiff of that “getting loopy and a little lefty in her old age” smell that Goldwater wafted out in HIS dotage.
I can’t see the ‘liberal cool kids table from here.” Can you tell me some of the people who are seated at it?
Ariana Huffington?
Martin Sheen?
Algore?
I can’t see the ‘liberal cool kids table from here.” Can you tell me some of the people who are seated at it?
Ariana Huffington?
Martin Sheen?
Algore?
(chuckle)
Yep, thats the table, all right.
In her mind, she is a "true conservative" and her opinions and feelings aren't really her opinions and feelings - they are the opinions and feelings that any "true conservative" is supposed to have.
Anyone who disagrees with her or, worse, is not animated by the same emotional reactions as she is, is a "fake conservative" or a "neocon" or a "Bushbot" or whatever childish insult that crosses her mind.
In her personal mythology America was only doing well when her opinions were in vogue, and now that they aren't, all will inevitably be lost.
Narcissism masquerading as political philosophy.
I have for a long time thought it is well past the time for Peggy to retire and focus on playing bridge and shuffle board. Her writing is steeped in ‘the good ole days’ and is, overall, totally mundane and boring. More along, dear, and give another commentator the space.
Noonan states the obvious in a very nice way. And people swoon and say she’s right on. Duh!
Just make sure they wash their hands before they sit at the table.
I like Peggy.
hey! You made the move to FR. What happened, one too many 911 articles?
Drop me an email, I’ll let you in on the news...(chuckle)
Never left FR, just didn’t post much til recently.
yeah.......blah , blah , blah, but can Peggy
Noonan wipe her ass with one square.......I’ve gotta know or this article is incomplete
“In her personal mythology America was only doing well when her opinions were in vogue, and now that they aren’t, all will inevitably be lost.
Narcissism masquerading as political philosophy.”
Ouch!
I think it was even before that. It seems to me that she thought she would be welcomed as a Bush speech writer or something of that kind during the 2004 election and she must have been rebuffed, at least in her mind. She turned on him then. She has been pretty unreadable ever since. And her love affair for the Reagan legacy is tiresome in the extreme. You have to live in the present and future. Otherwise, you go the way of the dinosaurs. So many conservative “Reagan-lovers” just do not seem to appreciate their ultimate destruction if they do not recognize this.
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