Noonan was the first Republican pundit I ever loathed. I remember seeing her on TV during the Clinton years and wondering whether to pity her, because she seemed mentally ill, like she had some real personal issues, real problems. That was a more innocent time for me, way before I was exposed to the Coulter/Hannity/Carlson generation.
Snoozer, a lot of people had the same reaction to Noonan that you had. To me, it's clear that Noonan has some serious father issues.
He'd tell you what he was going to do, and why, and then he'd do it. He'd been doing that for four years. He did it in the campaign, too. He was dependable, and he was predictable. It's nice to have a predictable president. It's not nice in the nuclear age to have a surprising one.
Note, first of all, the childlike tone of this passage: "It's nice ... It's not nice..." And pay attention to the yearning tone of the comparisons: "He was dependable, and he was predictable..."
Noonan's daddy wasn't either of those things, is my guess.
I'm a fatherless man -- he died before I was born. I think that aspect of my personal history made me sensitive to women with father issues. I can smell those women a mile away, and Noonan is one of them. Some people who had absent fathers (literally or figuratively) in childhood wind up searching for replacements in adulthood. They never really grow up emotionally. Noonan is one of those people. Inside, she's a 5-year-old girl who wants daddy's attention and approval.
I hope she's not married. I hope she's not a mother. It would be hell to be married to such a needy, immature, clingy woman, and she would inflict lifelong emotional scars on any children she had. She has done plenty of damage to the country because of her neediness combined with her rhetorical ability.
"He'd tell you what he was going to do, and why, and then he'd do it. He'd been doing that for four years."
Sounds immensely like a speech Goebbels gave to the foreign press about Hitler way back in '39.
Queequeg,
I think you are absolutely spot on. Connected with that, one gets a sense that she thinks Bush personally abandoned her. The "big daddy" not just dissapointed her, but also left her behind.
arg!
"Destroying your Reagan legacy"
He is the Reagan legacy, Heir of Ronzo, a direct son in the snakey lineage that oozes from the GOPs elephantine sphincter. To deny him this crown is to dispair all that is Kkkonservativism" To say otherwise lends credibility to the Bed Time For Bonzo Ball Washer Brigade.
He is the crown jewel of Reaganism and the more he is equated with it, the better we'll be. This is the anchor and the anvil to toss to any drowning moderate or back paddling AM radio listening douchebag - any of that ilk. Peggy my dear, Jr IS YOUR BOY, so stop trying to lock the door and pull the shades, cuz the roof is on fire, beeotchah!
Burn motherfucker, burn. 
With a little luck we can hang George Bush around the neck of the Republican Party for the next 20 years.
"We gave the Republicans an 8 year chance with a Republican Congress and all they did was prove their greed, incompetence and stupidity. You want more of that... vote Republican."
John Q. Public
Amuseinc:
With a little luck we can hang George Bush around the neck of the Republican Party for the next 20 years.
With a lot of luck, his name will end up being the same kind of poison that Herbert Hoover's was from 1933 to the 1960s.
I just hope we don't have to have the massive economic chaos that went with it.
Stickler-
I agree, it would be great to hang Bush around Republicans' necks for a few decades. But it was precisely because of the Depression that Hoover was such an albatross for them all those years. Short of that, all we'll be able to do is remind them that Bush 1 won a war and put us in a recession, Bush 2 lost 2 wars and put us in a recession (or worse), but in between we had boom years and a budget surplus.
Whenever I see a car with an old Bush/Cheney or W sticker on it, I always want to walk up to the window and say "Hey, I see your sticker. How's that working out for you?"
Yes indeed HS, Noonan's "dependable, predictable president" is STILL DOING IT TO not only the republican party (DIE MOTHERFUCKERS!), but to the rest of us, and by that I mean the whole fucking WORLD, with this appointment of the war criminal, gangster, dipshit extrordinaire Wolfowitz: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/vi...gs/video/74975/
HEY! If all goes WELL, for the next decade we will be hearing news of how it is for the BUSH CREW in federal prison!
Noonan has a son, around 20ish I think (she wrote about him being with her in Washington DC several times, once when there was a bomb scare and they had to run for the train back to NYC--she let him have a beer on the ride back, while admiring his 17-year-old-composure. Peggy? The drinking age is 21.)
But Nooners did this to herself, the destruction of her very own Party was by her own hand and no one else's.
There are two things I wonder. First, at the 1984 RNC Nancy Reagan was quoted as saying she didn't give a damn about the fundies/lifers/ whichever. Wonder if she gives a damn now that they're running her Party (how's the stem cell research working out, Nancy).
Second, none of these Republican swept away true believers ever seems to take responsibility for what they have wrought. So which pundit will be the first to claim it's all Bill Clinton's fault for the mess their Party is in.
This reminds me of hard core communists now.
"Well, we know about Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, how people were prosecuted in the Soviet Union, but but but... it's not real communism. If you give us just ONE more chance we will get it right this time".
No Peggy - THIS IS EXACTLY the republican party.
Perhaps the democrats will be better. It's not a high hurdle...
Usually I would heap scorn on her but I know she has a drinking problem and I attest most of her wrongheaded writings to that.
I recall seeing her in a documentary where she was getting out the vote for W in 2004 in a neighborhood in the south.
"May God Bless You", or somesuch salutation came out of her mouth as she went to the next door to proselytize.
Some say it'd be reckless to speculate Peggy's a twat. I'd say it'd be reckless NOT to!
Geez, is there a one of the Noonan/Matthews/Hannity crew that _doesn't_ have big-time father issues?
Where's Sally?
Seriously, the Pegster has also upset the braindead and deluded over at Pat Dullards's blog . . . a moderate calling itself "Jenfidel" scrawls:
Piggy Noonan is a Bush-hating bitch!
She’s not worthy to lick his shoes clean.
Not only do I think that President Bush didn’t “destroy” the GOP, I think it’s stronger than it’s been since President Reagan.
If we can get this election race down to Romney and Rudy, we’ll be looking good for a major win in November.
Oh, the sweet flapping sound of chickenhawks coming home to roost!
Dumb people get paid a lot to write shit for their masters. I am poor but I am free and not a whore. I pity her.
"Obama is creating the experience that he is the (only) one who can bring change"
Ok, he does. But still, the wonks are right: Where's the BEEF???
If you look at Obama's proposals, they are not so much diferent from Hilary's. In fact, very often they are worse or atr least not really thought through, for instance regarding health care. And he's conspiciously silent on how he wants to achieve them. "Bipartisanship" is NOT going to do the trick, it takes two to tango and the republicans are refusing to dance along.
So, actually, Obama is conducting an advertising campaign: Lots of big words, disguising empty promises. Where's the BEEF???
:-/
St. Peggy of the Magic Dolphins is indeed one creepy old bitch. And it's pretty Goddamn rich to see her sqwaking about the Fundies nowadays, given her previous years of shameless pandering to the bastards, all done with a dewey-eyed simple-mindedness that bordered on mental reatrdation. I do hope she burns in hell.
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