Peggy Noonan says "send me"

[Cocoa]

She's going to take a sabbatical from shilling for Bush in the Wall Street Journal, to shill for Bush not in the Wall Street Journal...


http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110005442

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In the past four years I have written about and given advice to both parties in this column. But a week ago, while watching the Democratic convention, I made a decision.

I am going to take three months' unpaid leave from The Wall Street Journal and attempt to support the Republican Party in the coming and crucial election. (Every four years everyone says "this is the most important election of my lifetime," but this year I believe it is true.) I'm going to give whatever advice and encouragement I have in terms of strategy, approach, message--I hate that word--and issues. No one has asked me to do this, and I do it as a volunteer, not for a salary but simply to give my time to help what I think is the more helpful side. This will take a bite out of my finances but I can do it. Actually most of us, when we die, wind up with a few thousand dollars in the bank. We should have spent it! I am going to spend mine now.

The White House does not need my help. They have the best political strategists, communications specialists and speechwriters since the Reagan era, which had the best of all these since the time of JFK. President Bush has his sound, and it's a good one. He's getting his sea legs on the stump--it's hard to go from being-president to being-president-and-running again-for-president, it's a bit of a shift and is always awkward. But he's got it together and they've got it together.

There are others, however, lower down on the power pole, who might benefit from another hand on deck. I've called a few this week and they've been welcoming and I'll see if I can add to their fortunes. If I can't I'll at least try not to sink them.

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[RobertSeattle]

1. I've heard she like to say "Bend Me"...

:evilgrin:

[SaveElmer]

2. Good

We won't have to hear about her stupid column any more

[Caution]

3. good

get her vitriol off the pages of a national paper. hope she enjoys watching her candidate go down in flames.

[trumad]

4. She lies when she lies....

[Skittles]

5. Noonan is a Bush Whore

pathetic

[hatrack]

6. Buh-bye, Peggy - you WON'T be missed!

Happy fellating!! :evilgrin:

[LisaM]

7. He has been running for re-election since January 20th, 2001

how has she missed all of his relentless fundraising and campaigning?

[yellowcanine]

8. If they don't need her help - why is she helping? Just asking. This is

one egotistical woman. She actually thinks she is indispensible and that Bush is going to sink without her help. She won't say that of course - but note that she says "They have the best political strategists, communications specialists and speechwriters since the Reagan era, which had the best of all these since the time of JFK." Of course she was on the Reagan team so she is essentially blowing her own horn here. She really is a piece of work. This should benefit the Kerry campaign because she has some nutty ideas, any one of which could spring forth at an inoportune time for the Bush camp.

[displacedtexan]

9. At Reagan's funeral, the other speech writers wouldn't sit with her!

This is hilarious!

[Nay]

11. You took the words right out of my mouth. Noonan was a Reagan

speechwriter, and is patting herself on the back in this paragraph!!

[Robbien]

10. She wouldn't leave her job to join BushCo team without

someone asking her, would she?

[MichiganVote]

12. DO let the door hit you in the ass on the way....

[Stuckinthebush]

13. The WSJ should fire her

She has shown that she is not objective and, therefore, can not be considered a true journalist.

[Cocoa]

16. this is the WSJ editorial page

one of the worst RW rags out there, right up there with NewsMax and the Moonie Times.

[Insomnicole]

14. Buh-bye, Pegaloon.

This, I loved:

They have the best political strategists, communications specialists and speechwriters since the Reagan era,

Ooooh -- we like ourselves, do we, Peg?

In a weird way I'm going to miss her columns -- the zaniness was always good for a laugh (or twenty). Case in point: "The White House isn't in trouble and doesn't need my help -- but I'm gonna chuck everything and go help them without a paycheck because they're doing so incredibly well and don't need my help." Uh huh.

[bpilgrim]

15. "there's a high syllabic content"

wtf is she babbling about? she writes like a sheltered child whos stuck on themselves :puke:

no SHAME :crazy:

peace

[Paschall]

17. Sub-text: Peggy's spending her nest-egg on Shrub?

...Why don't you?

"Actually most of us, when we die, wind up with a few thousand dollars in the bank. We should have spent it! I am going to spend mine now."

Peggy will fit right in, obviously. This the Administration's attitude to the National Treasury.

[enki23]

18. send her to iraq

let her preach to the new faithful.