- Sister Sludge
Regarding Miss Peggy . . . I could only get so far
The insufferable ‘Miss Peggy’ Noonan… as she grows more irrelevant each day, she gets more strident and incoherent.
This is one ‘has been’ who is actually a “never was”. The elder President Bush didn’t realize that Ms. Noonan was over her head as a presidential speechwriter; unless you were as smart and good-humored as President Reagan (he could overshadow her deficiencies); GHW failed to recognize Noonan as one with some writing talent but completely devoid of wisdom and insight.
G W Bush, however, recognized Peggy’s severe shortcomings and the great extent to which she contributed to his Dad’s reelection loss with her “Read my Lips” “cleverness”. He didn’t let Peggy anywhere near his administration.
And she’s never gotten over it…she doen’t like the Bushes, or any GOP president and she is becoming more and more obvious about it…perhaps revealing her bitterness more than she wants.
Too bad the Wall Street Journal does not have GW’s similar good instincts.
Her latest is another “Why bother ?” column. If she saw the GOP convention first hand, it’s not apparent from her “analysis” of it. dlh
Noonan, Aug. 27:
“It was a real insane-a-thon. It was genuinely moving. It didn’t avoid big issues. It led with a lie. It was a success in that it will have pleased the base and done some degree of outreach to others.
“The parts of the Republican National Convention that were crazy included but were not limited to:
“Trump is the bodyguard of Western civilization,” said Charlie Kirk. “The frontier, the horizon, even the stars belong to us,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz. I’m still recovering from Kimberly Guilfoyle’s screaming. It was like seeing Eva Peron in an extended manic episode running from balcony to balcony warning the descamisados to stay armed, the oligarchs are coming. This was unfortunate because it was the first night and if Ms. Guilfoyle seemed insane, Republicans seemed insane.”
Like Miss Peggy, another one-time alleged conservative columnist, Mona Charen, (or is that Mona Karen as she scolds issue voting, fundamental issue at that), twists logic into a pretzel to justify voting for Biden/Harris while continuing her claim to be pro-life. Her criteria are not merely flawed they are nuts.
Regardless of the issue of the right to life (the original and proper denominator of the movement) no one who claims to be a conservative can prefer a Biden/Harris to Trump/Pence. The culture and the Republic as we know them are at stake because Biden/Harris are committed to fundamental change in leaps and bounds on so many fronts. There is no case to be made by a genuine or consistent conservative of any stripe for voting for Biden/Harris — the most pro-abortion and radical candidates ever.
Isaac Schorr writing at National Review critiques Charen, making some points genteelly. However much more could be said about Charen’s severe and profound nonsense, and the implications, but we will leave it to those paid to be kind to such apostasy if not treachery. R Mall
