Even Peggy Noonan Has Abandoned Bush

[QC]

Some choice bits...

<I>The beginning of my own sense of separation from the Bush administration came in January 2005, when the president declared that it is now the policy of the United States to eradicate tyranny in the world, and that the survival of American liberty is dependent on the liberty of every other nation. This was at once so utopian and so aggressive that it shocked me. For others the beginning of distance might have been Katrina and the incompetence it revealed, or the depth of the mishandling and misjudgments of Iraq.

What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom--a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history we don't need hacks. ...

One of the things I have come to think the past few years is that the Bushes, father and son, though different in many ways, are great wasters of political inheritance. They throw it away as if they'd earned it and could do with it what they liked. Bush senior inherited a vibrant country and a party at peace with itself. He won the leadership of a party that had finally, at great cost, by 1980, fought itself through to unity and come together on shared principles. Mr. Bush won in 1988 by saying he would govern as Reagan had. Yet he did not understand he'd been elected to Reagan's third term. He thought he'd been elected because they liked him. And so he raised taxes, sundered a hard-won coalition, and found himself shocked to lose his party the presidency, and for eight long and consequential years. He had many virtues, but he wasted his inheritance.</I>

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage

[opihimoimoi]

1. She may have left the Bush Camp but still is a PUB....Fuck her and all the GOP who enabled Bush

She has NOT LEFT the PARTY of DELUSION/ GREED/ and Self Interest...The GOP has ruined America and she is part of the Prob

[Erika]

3. They were nothing but W enablers

and she and the bushbots should be held accountable for the role they played in the destruction of America.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Yup...now she trying to clean her act???...fuck that

She helped destroy America...never forget....

[ninkasi]

8. You are always wise, Opi

And 100% correct in what you say. When this nightmare is finally over, we will have a feast such as none have ever had before. I'll bring desserts. This feast will last for a long time.

[opihimoimoi]

13. A 7 DAY LUAU!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, we shyould do this, LOL....re WISE...Not always. Many times LOLO

Mynah, we go eat....

[The Count]

2. She always hated the Bushies - as she is a Raygun groupie. Now she says it loud

and that in itself is significant.

[tularetom]

4. We may get an impeachment out of this yet

The dumshit wing of the repub party is already pissed at bush over the immigration bill and now it looks like the $$$ wing is following suit over his general incompetence. Noonan is indeed pretty worthless but remember this piece appeared in the wall street journal, a stronghold of wealthy repubs.

When the big bidness repubs jump ship he's in deep doodoo. And if they think he's fuckin it up for them he's practically out the door already. Look for a couple of elder pub statesman to pay the Goldwater call on him within the next month or two.

[Erika]

5. He may have failed his big business buds by the immigration

bill failing. They could have kept profits so high and wages so low. Perfect GOP dream.

[smtpgirl]

6. Now she seeks repentance for being a *ush SHILL

Oh, well, I have no pity. She was a "hack" for a long time, now she seeks absolution.

Join the ranks of Howard Fineman, Andrea Mitchell....etc

What she doesn't address that the *ushies are a Crime Syndicate, nothing more than governmental mafia
disguising as "public servants" and "democracy builders".

[Athens30603]

9. um...

I disagree with her almost universally but Noonan wasn't/isn't a hack writer.

[smtpgirl]

10. See I remember, she was one of the *ush "Shills/Hacks"

for GWB in 2004, like I said, Fineman, Barnicle, Mitchell....etc. were shills, now they have "seen the light".

I don't have sympathy for them, whatsoever!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Noonan


Current work
Noonan is now an author, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and a commentator on broadcast and cable television news shows. She remains a Reagan-style conservative, although she often criticizes the GOP leadership.<4>

In mid-August 2004, Noonan took a brief, unpaid leave from the Wall Street Journal to campaign for George W. Bush's reelection. In the years since, Noonan has become increasingly critical of the administration since Bush's inaugural address in January 2005.<5>

See, among others fueled the FIRE and it is SO HARD to put it out!!

[Athens30603]

11. I mean...

I knew what you meant but a 'hack' writer is a specific thing and Noonan, as an educated and widely published person who also does research, wasn't a hack. You can be a shill yet not a hack. Pretty much everyone here probably remembers 2004, too. Noonan was publishing long before that.
We can't call someone a hack just because we disagree with them completely.
It's intellectually dishonest.

[smtpgirl]

12. To be honest, she is a hack, she believed

and so did the others, spreading fear, patriotism, war-mongering at the infancy of *ush's pResidency.

I have been a dissenter from way back. Fawning over called "republican" issues has been the status quo since the '80's.

Newty renewed that false sense of that ideology in 1994 with the Contract On America and is has snow-balled into the monster you see today.

I have no remorse for the so called conservative base or anything that has spawned from that belief.

Personally we are all responsible for the sad state of our republic. We can change if enough people are getting sick and tired of getting sick and tired.

[Athens30603]

15. OK

Nevermind. I think you're missing my point. Agree to disagree.

[MasonJar]

14. Oh, great! She is mad because she cannot bring Reagan up from the grave.

Reagan is one of the reasons our country sucks today.