A big, eardrum bursting, long, standing ovation for Stuart Schwartz who wrote an response to pho-conservative Peggy Noonan's hit piece about Sarah Palin in the Wall Street Journal. Stuart Schwartz, Ph.D. is on the faculty at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is also a former newspaper executive. His article entitled, "Peggy Noonan: Sarah Palin Jealous" appears on American Thinker's website. Here are some excerpts - You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. But it's not the normal... Read Full Story
Obama Dons the Presidential Cloak On Tuesday, he seemed fully in command. By PEGGY NOONAN Washington A mysterious thing happened in that speech Tuesday night. By the end of it Barack Obama had become president. Every president has a moment when suddenly he becomes what he meant to be, or knows what he is, and those moments aren't always public. Bill Safire thought he saw it with Richard Nixon one day in the new president's private study. Nixon always put a hand towel on the hassock where he... Read Full Story
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Talk about flip flops! It was exactly one year ago today that Peggy Noonan suffered her infamous "open-mic" disaster at MSNBC during coverage of the GOP convention, in which Noonan, chatting with Mike Murphy and Chuck Todd, referred to the "bullshit" narrative around Sarah Palin after she was picked as Veep candidate. When Todd asked her if this was the most qualified woman the Republicans could nominate, Noonan responded, "The most... Read Full Story
It’s the best cure for what ails the Obama presidency.
By PEGGY NOONAN
August 21, 2009 Wall Street Journal
Looking back, this must have been the White House health-care strategy:
Health care as a subject is extraordinarily sticky, messy and confusing. It’s inherently complicated, and it’s personal. There are land mines all over the place. Don’t make the mistake the Clintons made and create a plan that gets picked apart, shot down, and injures the standing of the... Read Full Story
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From her WSJ editorial where she refutes common pro-Palin arguments: "The elites hate her." The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conservative media that picked her and pushed her. The base barely knew who she was. It was the elites, from party operatives to public intellectuals, who advanced her and attacked those who said she lacked heft. She is a complete elite confection. She might as well... Read Full Story
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A little scene-setting first: Ronald Reagan's Personal Private Diary[1]: Thur Feb 17 1983 : Jeanne Kirkpatrick reported on her trip to Central America. A grim story. Our Ambas. Hinton under the direction of the same kind of St. Dept. bureaucrats who made Castro possible are screwing up the situation in El Salvador. I'm now really mad. Bill C. is bringing George S. up to date and then I'm determined heads will roll, beginning with Ambas... Read Full Story
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Actually, the first half of this article from Peggy Noonan is not all that bad. But Ms. Noonan goes astray somewhere in between blaming Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for everything from all the ills of the Republican Party to the Kennedy assassination. This is the part I cannot abide: “Here’s why all this matters. The world is a dangerous place. It has never been more so, or more complicated, more straining of the reasoning powers of those... Read Full Story
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I used to be a big fan of Peggy Noonan. I thought that her columns were thoughtful, eloquant, and had a way with the English language. Her seeming understanding of the world and of Conservatism was always enjoyable, and I looked forward to her weekly columns. All of that started to change after the 2004 election. While still writing good columns, she seemed off her game . As the 2008 campaign heated up last fall, she started to show... Read Full Story
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The erudite former Reagan speechwriter sums up Sister Sarah in one, tough, column, including knocking down a few convenient conservative myths: “The elites hate her.” The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conservative media that picked her and pushed her. The base barely knew who she was. It was the elites, from party operatives to public intellectuals, who advanced her and attacked those who... Read Full Story
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Peggy Noonan is not sad to see Sarah Palin go. In fact, the Reagan speechwriter and well-respected prose stylist and American public intellectual would like Ms. Palin to continue to go even further, away from politics. Depending, perhaps, on her painkiller supply, Peggy Noonan veers wildly between hackish defenses of Republican doctrine and actual clear-thinking criticisms of politicians (and sometimes, when she's had a little Chardonnay... Read Full Story
