Peggy Noonan Mea Culpa - trying to salvage career? Plus freeper comments - it ain't working...

[jannyk]

The freeper comments to this bullshit are a hoot - she's toast! Caution - wear rubber gloves before entering.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074147/posts

" However, I did say two things that I haven't said in public, either in speaking or in my writing. One is a vulgar epithet that I wish I could blame on the mood of the moment but cannot. No one else, to my memory, swore. I just blurted. The other, more seriously, is a real criticism that I had not previously made, but only because I hadn't thought of it. And it is connected to a thought I had this morning, Wednesday morning, and wrote to a friend. Here it is. Early this morning I saw Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and as we chatted about the McCain campaign (she thoughtfully and supportively) I looked into her eyes and thought, Why not her? Had she been vetted for the vice presidency, and how did it come about that it was the less experienced Mrs. Palin who was chosen? I didn't ask these questions or mention them, I just thought them. Later in the morning, still pondering this, I thought of something that had happened exactly 20 years before. It was just after the 1988 Republican convention ended. I was on the plane, as a speechwriter, that took Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush, and the new vice presidential nominee, Dan Quayle, from New Orleans, the site of the convention, to Indiana. Sitting next to Mr. Quayle was the other senator from that state, Richard Lugar. As we chatted, I thought, "Why him and not him?" Why Mr. Quayle as the choice, and not the more experienced Mr. Lugar? I came to think, in following years, that some of the reason came down to what is now called The Narrative. The story the campaign wishes to tell about itself, and communicate to others. I don't like the idea of The Narrative. I think it is ... a barnyard epithet. And, oddly enough, it is something that Republicans are not very good at, because it's not where they live, it's not what they're about, it's too fancy. To the extent the McCain campaign was thinking in these terms, I don't like that either. I do like Mrs. Palin, because I like the things she espouses. And because, frankly, I met her once and liked her. I suspect, as I say further in here, that her candidacy will be either dramatically successful or a dramatically not; it won't be something in between.

But, bottom line, I am certainly sorry I blurted my barnyard ephithet, I am certainly sorry that someone abused my meaning in the use of the words, "It's over", and I'm sorry I didn't have the Kay Baily Hutchison thought before this morning, because I could have written of it. There. Now: onto today's column."

[colorado thinker]

1. Freeper comment:

"Palin’s pick, if you’ve been paying attention to things beyond Palin’s plumbing or family issues, says “We’re coming to Washington to clean out the swamp.”

Which swamp would that be? The one the repugs were going to Washington to clean out in 2000? Or the bigger, deeper, slimier, creepier swamp they built since then?

Morans . . .

[Eric J in MN]

2. One commenter is also mad at Fox News

"BTW: O’Reilly already defending Obama on his show tonight. Claiming that his experience is far more than Palin’s. This is the selling of the soul of FNC, Ailes cow-towed to Obambi and O’Reilly has agreed to give him a softball interview on the night of McCain’s speech.

It’s no wonder Brit Hume is retiring. I wouldn’t want to be further associated with FNC since it is selling itself out to Obama.

Back to old movies, CSPAN, and talk radio."

[my3boyz]

3. Bill O' is just trying to be nice so Obama does not back out of his interview with him. nt

[SoCalDem]

4. She just "blurted"?..ummm no she didn't

She was having a REAL conversation with her PEERS. They all spoke their minds..said what they really thought.

They went "off script", and because they are not all that used to doing that kind of broadcast, they blew it.. All week long and even last week, they were uncomfortable with the set up and many of them got the wrong feeds, or talked over each other, or stared into the camera, not realizing they were "on"..
Either they were supposed to be in commercial, and they did not go to commercial, or someone in the booth forgot to kill their mic..or they finished too early, and thought they were in commercial..

Regardless of the mechanics of it all, they all spoke their minds FOR ONCE..


Peggy owes ME no apology..I loved hearing what she really thought:)