• Mitt Romney,  Peggy Noonan

    Peggy Noonan: Conservatives Thanked Me for Throwing Mitt Romney Under the Bus

    Peggy Noonan of the WSJ on Face the Nation

    Peggy Noonan, columnist for the Wall Street Journal

    Say what?

    Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan made as much news last week as either of the presidential candidates when she came out and advocated for an intervention to save GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney from himself. After calling the Romney camp a “rolling calamity,” Noonan was admonished by both Republican operatives and conservative commentators. However, on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Noonan claims that she privately received thanks from anxious conservatives who felt the Romney campaign needed some tough talk.

    Peggy, who “jumped the shark” at least two Presidents ago, is a political legend in her own mind. Unfortunately, Peggy has become old, tired and crotchety.

    Noonan hated McCain-Palin, hated Bush, hell she hates every Republican. But, she makes the case for Obama.

    Time for Peggy to move along and start writing for Slate or the New Republic.

    Watch her act on yesterday’s Face the Nation:

    Peggy, don’t speak for conservatives, because you left us a long time ago.

  • Barack Obama,  George Will,  Peggy Noonan

    Barack Obama Defangs The Media Right and Left

    Barack Obama at George Wills home

    President-elect Barack Obama waves to reporters as he arrives at a conservative columnist George Will’s private residence for a dinner in Chevy Chase, Md., Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009

    The RIGHT came first at a private off the record dinner at the home of conservative columnist George Will.

    Call it a charm offensive or a high-level “Listening Tour,” but Barack Obama is already signaling that he intends to break with the current president in one obvious way: hearing from his critics.

    Obama Tuesday night trekked to the Chevy Chase, Md., home of conservative columnist George F. Will to talk politics and get to know some of his fiercest intellectual adversaries: Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Larry Kudlow, David Brooks, Rich Lowry, Peggy Noonan, Michael Barone, and Paul Gigot.

    The two-and-half-hour dinner, which came at Will’s request, is only the first get-together between the president-elect and Washington’s opinion-makers.

    Then, this morning it was the LEFT’s turn to bite at the defanging the press operation apple of “The One.”

    Obama held a meeting with several columnists and liberal commentators this morning, following up on last night’s dinner with conservative writers, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting. Some of the writers there today are clearly on the liberal side, while others more moderate.

    The group included the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne and Eugene Robinson, the Wall Street Journal’s Gerry Seib, National Journal’s Ron Brownstein, the New York Times Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd, and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, among others.

    Today’s meeting was held at the transition headquarters, and unlike dinner at George Will’s house, I’m told there weren’t refreshments. But similar to last night’s, the discussion was off the record.

    All of these folks are Washington or New York MSM opinion makers and Obama is playing the “please be nice to me defang” card. Note, the LEFT’s meeting was obviously hastily arranaged (mid-day at Transition HQ and no food) after they whined about “The One” meeting with the RIGHT.

    It may be a nice gesture but Obama’s cabinet appointment distractions are starting to reach a crescendo.

    Exit question: Who on the RIGHT will write the first “Obama is All RIGHT” column?

    Flap is putting his money on Peggy Noonan.


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  • Keith Olbermann,  MSNBC,  Peggy Noonan,  Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome Supplanting Bush Derangement?

    Peggy Noonan makes the point on MSNBC

    Peggy Noonan says the media is “playing” a game to make Sarah Palin the face of the GOP. Of course, we know Noonan is NO fan of Sarah Palin so she is inclined to fuel the fire so to speak – especially on MSNBC.

    But, Noonan has a point. Watch the video below:

    Keith Olbermann ridiculing Sarah Palin on NBC’s Martha Stewart Show over Turkeygate

    Looks like to Flap that NBC and the LEFT which permeates its news AND entertainment shows wish to make Sarah Palin the “NEW” Bush.

    After all, President Bush is leaving office and it worked so well demonizing him for electoral success. Why not pick a new charicature – Sarah Palin?

    Allah has it RIGHT:

    Long story short, the left’s laying a bet that she’ll be easy pickings down the line and the right’s laying a bet that she’s here to save the day. And the pot just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

    Exit Question: While NBC and the LEFT concentrates on Palin Derangement Syndrome will other GOP stars rise to be the face of the party?


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  • Charles Krauthammer,  John McCain,  Kathleen Parker,  Michael Ramirez,  Peggy Noonan

    Charles Krauthhammer – McCain for President

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    Political cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    Charles Krauthammer endorses John McCain for President today.

    Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain. I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

    I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe — neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) — yelling “Stop!” I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I’d rather lose an election than lose my bearings.

    First, I’ll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The “erratic” temperament issue, for example. As if McCain’s risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.

    Read the entire piece.

    But, Charles forgot another conservative ship-jumper – Peggy Noonan.

    For Peggy and Kathleen Parker those state dinners will taste – well, bitter sweet, no?


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