Peggy Noonan on Palin... and Trump
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Sarah Palin’s public performances continue to be
distinctive. Her endorsement of Donald Trump was less speech than podium jazz
scat, with some early Elvis thrown in.
* AND WHO DOESN'T LOVE ELVIS...?!?!
“Trump’s candidacy, it has exposed not just that tragic,
the ramifications of that betrayal of a transformation of our country, but too,
he has exposed the complicity on both sides of the aisle that has enabled it,
okay?”
* NOW WHAT NOONAN SHOULD WRITE IS... "AND OF COURSE
SHE'S RIGHT!" BUT INSTEAD SHE RESPONDS...
Essentially: Bee-bop-a-lula he’s my baby. Palin was
scattered, rambly; at moments she foraged through her notes in a way that was
almost endearing, looking for lines that would connect and explode. But it’s not
as interesting as it used to be because it’s not new.
* SERIOUSLY... WHAT A P.O.S. SO TRANSPARENT. NOONAN
COULDN'T CARE LESS THAT THE GOP IS CONTROLLED BY... RINOs. (BUT OF COURSE...
BEING A RINO HERSELF... HER POSITION DOES HAVE A INTERNAL LOGIC TO SUPPORT IT.)
(*SMIRK*)
* AGAIN... FOLKS... THE WSJ... NRO... FOX NEWS...
(*SHRUG*)
* THEY'RE ALL EITHER RIDDLED WITH RINOs... OR OUTRIGHT
CONTROLLED BY RINOs.
If you’re in the mood for irony, here’s one. The great
foes of Sarah Palin now are the people who made her a national figure in 2008,
defended her and attacked her critics.
* UNFORTUNATELY... THIS IS INDEED PARTLY TRUE. (MOST
PEOPLE ARE EASILY MANIPULATED.)
It is the GOP establishment that now most furiously
disses and denigrates her.
* THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT ALWAYS FURIOUSLY DISSED AND
DENIGRATED HER! (WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS NOONAN BABBLING ABOUT...?!?!)
Everything has switched around in the GOP the past eight
years. It is a world turned upside down.
* Er... NO. SAME REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT. SAME
REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT THAT SUPPORTED FORD OVER REAGAN... BUSH OVER REAGAN...
BUSH OVER BUCHANAN... DOLE OVER KEMP... MCCAIN... ROMNEY (OVER GINGRICH)...
(*SIGH*)
* FOLKS. OBAMA WOULDN'T BE PRESIDENT IF IT WEREN'T FOR
THE RINOs. HECK! CLINTON NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR
THE RINOs!
In the short term her endorsement is said to help in
Iowa. It would have helped Ted Cruz if she’d chosen him, because for the first
time it would have drawn a line, for some people, between real conservatives
and Mr. Trump. So it’s good for Mr. Trump she’s off the table and on his side.
But in the long run it’s probably a wash. Mrs. Palin brings her own mad excitement,
but at this point she sort of helps you with people who already like you and
hurts you with people who already don’t.
The clever thing Palin did in her remarks was to bring up
Phyllis Schlafly, still a generally uncredited force in the making of modern
conservatism and a brave woman. Mrs. Schlafly supports Mr. Trump because she
believes the conservative thing to do about a rotting edifice — the Washington
political establishment — is to tear it down. Mr. Trump will “defeat the
king-makers,” Mrs. Schlafly told Breitbart.com.
I’d note that for those who admire the conservative
philosopher-statesman Edmund Burke, this sounds radically at odds with his
frequent counsel of restraint and respect for history.
* Er... WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, PEGGY, IS... COMMON SENSE
RECOGNITION OF REALITY!
But Mrs. Schlafly’s view, too, has Burkean antecedents.
When he thought something so corrupt as to be destructive of British character
and national life, he went at it root and branch, as he did with the East India
Company, which existed at the heart of and was a symbol of the British
establishment. He challenged imperial practices, which is to say imperial
corruptions. The point here, again, is that what is at issue in the party right
now is not the end of conservatism but what a conservative approach would
consist of at this point in history.
* FOLKS. YOU DON'T NEED TO BRUSH UP ON YOUR "BURKEAN
PHILOSOPHY." JUST... CONTINUE READING MY POSTINGS.
(*WINK*)
* BY THE WAY... JUST IN CASE ANYONE ISN'T
"GETTING" THE TACTIC... NOONAN IS TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU THAT HER'S
IS THE "LEARNED" OPINION BECAUSE... WELL... ONLY "LEARNED"
PEOPLE BABBLE ON ABOUT "BURKEAN PHILOSOPHY."
(*GUFFAW*)
* FOLKS. NOTICE. I WRITE IN ENGLISH. I'M NOT TRYING TO
MANIPULATE YOU. AGREE WITH ME OR NOT, NO ONE CAN ACCUSE ME OF TRYING TO
"BAFFLE WITH BULL$HIT."
(*SNORT*)
* SIDE NOTE: IT REALLY DOES PAIN ME TO WATCH NOONAN
MISUSE HER GOD-GIVEN WRITING TALENT IN THIS WAY...
* RONALD REAGAN MUST BE WEEPING UP IN HEAVEN...
(*SIGH*)
What Mr. Trump really needs is to be endorsed not by Mrs.
Palin but by a political figure with stature, some sane...
(*ROLLING MY EYES*)
* Hmm... A TINGE OF DESPERATION EMERGING...
(*SMIRK*)
...member or members or administrations past who could
lend him credibility. He needs a gravitas injection. Trumpism suffers among its
critics for a reputation for intellectual carelessness — it’s all political
joyriding. Mrs. Palin’s presence does nothing to knock that criticism down, and
in fact underscores it.
* GEEZUS... WHAT A BUFFOON NOONAN CAN BE WHEN SHE CLIMBS
UPON HER HIGH HORSE.
* TAKE ANOTHER PILL, PEGGY... AND WASH IT DOWN WITH MORE
VODKA.
(*SMIRKING AS I ROLL MY EYES*)
To a larger point. Eventually in this campaign some
candidate is going to have to address Donald Trump and his rise in a
thoughtful, serious way. The obvious one is Jeb Bush...
* HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
* SERIOUSLY... I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE JUST WROTE THAT!
(*ROFLMAO*)
...by virtue of his name...
* PEGGY'S A BIG "ROYALTY" FAN, APPARENTLY...
(*SNORT*)
* "...BY VIRTUE OF HIS NAME..."
* SERIOUSLY...?!?!
...and its association with the way the party used to be —
the old, orderly conservatism.
* ORDERLY...?!?! YA MEAN... DOING SUCH A LOUSY JOB THAT
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REJECTED YOU IN FAVOR OF... BILL FRIGGIN' CLINTON...?!?!
OR... DO YOU MEAN IRAQ? OR... DO YOU MEAN "BUSH 2007/2008 ECONOMICS?"
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* THESE... PEOPLE... ARE... FRIGGIN'... DELUSIONAL...!!!
* PEGGY... HOW STONED WERE YOU WHEN YOUR WROTE
THIS...?!?!
* FOLKS... I LITERALLY CAN'T STOMACH ANY MORE OF THIS.
FEEL FREE TO FOLLOW THE LINK AND READ PEGGY'S BIG "ADVISE TO JEB
BUSH" CLOSING MEME FOR YOURSELVES.
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