Could sure do without her being the face, right Peggy?

I have no use for these Upper East Side Republicans anymore. They are killing us.

Why can't we adopt the Pawlenty approach and have more Sam's Clubbers that country clubbers?

Just what in the world is so wrong with that?

Peg=old face

Palin=New face

I like the new face.

Mom

I am not sure what Noonan has against Palin, possibly a simple hatred for the pretty young girl in school or equally silly an anger of attention for the non-selected by the chattering class of DC.  I have noted in the past that the "Well educated" chattering classes from the beltway take actual offense when someone not of their ilk is presented for leadership positions.  TO them it is a repudiation of THEM as our defacto leaders - regardless of their failed efforts at leadership (Witness John McCain as the nominee). 

But the real reason Palin is the focal point is that finally someone has arrived on the scene who espouses the conservative first principals.  After all, the only reason I voted in this past election was because conservative Palin was on the ticket.  And this makes the chattering classes nervous for she is not one of their own in DC social circles.

I would not have voted for just McCain alone, after all he is my states senior senator.  (Sadly, he jsut announced that he is running again for senate.  I guess I will be forced to vote for the liberal who they run against him to just put a silver knife through him.

Please God no.  If Palin is the future of the party, then there is no party.  The RINO's lost big time this year and hopefully a new crop of conservatives, like Utah's Caffetz, will lead the party.  Palin is a train wreck.  I respect her values and "down to earth" appeal, but she is too extreme in regards to the religious right for the future of the party.

 Look, I think the headline with Mrs. Palin, let me throw out this idea: she will never not be with us, she will be covered regularly between now and 2012. 

     Is it so difficult to refer to her as Governor Palin?  Why do people feel the need to marginalize Gov. Palin by just refering to her as Mrs. Palin?

Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration

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This all makes sense if you assume that Palin is "unqualified." The game is that if voters associate Palin as the GOP, the media and the Democrats will wait until the right time, and then pull the rug out from underneath her. The assumption is that it will be easy to pull the rug, because she's such a lightweight. Noonan, who agrees that Palin is a lightweight, agrees with the assumption.

The media created the narrative that Palin is not intelligent enough. How did they do that? They asked her questions that she didn't answer "correctly."

• The two most famous were about the Bush Doctrine, and what newspapers and magazines formed her worldview.
• At least for the second question, the media imposed their own prejudices on what "correct" is. After all, why did Katie Couric assume that Palin needed the media to form her worldview?

Palin is a successful and popular governor, but the media claims that it doesn't matter because the state of Alaska is so small. But then again, how big was Arkansas when Clinton was governor there?

"...because it amuses them to do that". Peggy, you are absolutely wrong about your conclusion. They do this because they believe they have successfully demonized Sarah Palin and as long as their "demon" is the face of the Republican party they will continue to push her out there in the twisted belief that she "hurts the Republican party". Peggy, do you remember working for a real conservative...a man of genuine character? Remember him? You were once a help to our party and now you've turned into nothing more than a lefty tool, IMHO.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31

We need a NEWnan.

We all have opinions about ourselves as well as others. Governor Palin came on the scene and in a short while endeared herself to a large number of conservative, (possibly Republican), voters. As in any situation in life, there are  many who feel that their light is diminished when the "new guy on the block" appears and captures all the interest.

Governor Sarah-- (I call my doctor, doctor Jim and my rep, Representative Phil, (Gingrey), that's my style, is ,to their shame. particularly vilified by women. To make matters worse, Republican women are more at fault than others. Decent conservative women like Kathleen Parker have turned their backs on principles to attack Gov Sarah.

My amateur psychological analysis suggests this is a case of mass jealousy. Gov Sarah is no less qualified than Prez Obama. Both of them could be judged to be less qualified than most in Congress based on however the jealous ones want to analyze it. Buit, on a psoitive note, she has not been tainted by DC corruption and self interest. God willing, her arms are too short to "reach across the aisle"" for a back stabbing.

Simply put, I might not have voted for McCain if he had not picked Gov Palin. I most certainly would not have voted for McCain if he chose another party hack RINO.

So, let all those who have a bug in their shorts say what they will. I believe there are millions of conservatives who really feel that Gov Palin is a conservative too.

Maybe McCain should have chosen Sen Martinez. My guess is he would have only gotten 25 million votes, I sure as hell would never have voted for them.

Finally, the fact that she is physically attractive, yet a loving mother was too much for many women to handle,

So to all of you Noonan types, I say, "Get thee to a nunnery",

i think the MSM believes it succeeded in portraying palin as a moronic individual and is doing nothing but piling on ... the most recent being the interview at the turkey farm. 

noonan is just being honest here IMHO ... when the majority of the american public gets its news from the MSM, the unflattering portrait they've painted of palin has stuck in the minds of most americans:

1. couric and gibson interviews

2. using tina fey's SNL portrayal of palin as factual

3. the pregnant, unmarried daughter

4. the $150,000 wardrobe expense

these are all things intended to make palin look like a buffoon and the MSM believes they've acheived this.  it makes sense when their effort is to keep dems in power ...  why wouldn't they want to make palin the face of the GOP if they believe they have successfully convinced the public that she is a embarassing dolt.

this is what infuriates me about the left ... they claim to be intellectual, mature and "above-it-all" ... but when you look at their track record ... there is no substance to their strategy ... they make it personal and drop the level of play down to an elementary school playground level ... name calling, rumour spreading and whining ... total immaturity.  they're scared to death of palin and this is the only way they can fight her.

i give credit to noonan for calling it as she sees it ... we need to find a better way to brand our product as conservatives/republicans to appeal to the masses as well as destroy the media's efforts to assassinate our leaders' characters for the sole purpose of fortifying the negative stereotype they've handed the GOP. 

The GOP leadership actively shut out Alan Keyes from any campaign event this election cycle. He was dis-invited to two of the early 'debates'. The GOP leadership was trying to do what the MSM did in the general election, namely decide for the people who their choices would be. As a result Alan Keyes was forced to leave the GOP and find another party that reflected his conservative views. Whether they know it or not, Alan took a fair number with him. McCain winning the nomination alienated many more because of his centrist views and his campaign finance reform stance. McCain only really excited the base of the party and thus had any chance of winning when he picked Palin as his running mate. Now we see that some of the GOP 'leadership' are uncomfortable with Governor Palin as the 'face of the party' becasue she has apparently not been properly instructed and indoctrinated into the party but rather comes to conservative views and holds conservative values all on her own. Imagine their horror to find that Sarah Palin energized the Republican base simply because she is an honest and real conservative, not the fake RINO that so many have become.

The face of the party should be, and will be, whomever can re-energize and revitalize the GOP. Right now that is Sarah Palin. It certaintly isn't Mitt Romney or Governor Pawlenty or Mike Huckabee.

As for the thought of the MSM 'making mischief' by trying to make Sarah Palin the 'face of the GOP'...well, I can only hope that they get what they wish for.

I've read about a Republican from the back-woods of hicksville who energized conservatives and became the 'face of his party. He was reviled by the liberals of his day and the news media poked fun at his unsophisticated and honest speeches. Left to the "intelligentia" and the news media of the day, Abraham Lincoln would never have amounted to anything.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

Peggy Noonan may have been a conservative speechwriter at one time, but she is now more liberal than conservative. Rush Limbaugh has said: "...but you know there are a bunch of people off our reservation in the conservative media and just lately the names being bandied about are Peggy Noonan, David Frum, David Brooks. I don't know to what extent these people ever really were on our side, to tell you the truth."

During the Republican Convention Peggy Noonan was a participant on a CSPAN program titled "Politics and the Republican Convention.." Peggy Noonan was an embarrassment. She seemed to me to be in a state of rambling incoherence most of the time, and when she did speak clearly she said (1) that reporters should be centrist in their reporting like Brian Williams (I kid you not) and (2) She longed for the 'old' days when we had the three powerful networks and Walter Cronkite.

If you are still not convinced that Noonan is a RINO and that she is infatuated with Barack Obama than perhaps her own words will do the trick. In Obama and the Runaway Train she writes:

"The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes: He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make."

In A Thinking Man's Speech Noonan writes: "I thought Barack Obama's speech was strong, thoughtful and important. Rather beautifully, it was a speech to think to, not clap to. It was clear that's what he wanted, and this is rare."

As Mark Finkelstein noted, Peggy Noonan is also not a fan of Gov. Sarah Palin (surprise, surprise). In Palin's Failin' she writes: "But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office."

Noonan further scrawls: "This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine. She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite. She doesn't seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts."

Beware of RINOs in Conservative's clothing!

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Why the two Americas, the Left and the Right, can never reconcile ~ An excellent article by Dennis Prager

Peggy's routine is getting pretty old, pretty fast.

Sarah Palin will no doubt be one of, if not THE face of our party. She has a whole lot of support. 

 For those who haven't checked it out, Team Sarah is a huge group, almost 60,000 and growing of Sarah Palin supporters. Team Sarah was founded by Fred Thompson's wife Jeri, and Janine Turner.

 www.teamsarah.org

She makes a fine governor for the state of Alaska. But listen to her talk for a while. Then listen to Pawlenty, Jindal, or Romney speak. There is no comparison. She is out of her league on the national stage and would be best off serving the fine people of Alaska.

I didn't vote for John McCain because he was the stupid RINO that the media forced into the Republican nomination just in case the Republicans won, they would still have a liberal at the wheel. I refused to vote for the lesser of 2 evils. I threw my vote to Chuck Baldwin because he knows far more what being a conservative means than pro illegal immigrant, pro climate change legislation idiot McCain did. Now they are being more bold by wanting to push Palin into the picture because they know that Palin is unelectable. I actually like her, but not for a president. Senator would be good. Then after a few years of learning more national affairs, she would be ready for a presidential run. Right now, Jindal and Pawlenty are looking MUCH better as the GOP option for 2012.

Peggy could be right, in which case I would advise the MSM, be careful what you wish for.

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

Ms Noonan is part of the Main Stream Media so she "feels" she is more qualified to make these determinations. One only has to watch her during an interview or segment to see she has an overinflated ego and opinion of herself. She will always smile, tilt her head to side, sigh every so lightly, then give a slow deliberate answer the whole time with the look of "You poor ignorant goose" "I must gently correct your empty headed assumptions or the free world will cease to exist." As I said, she is a large part of the problem with the GOP. I got a call this A.M. from the GOP wanting money to help poor old Senator NORM up in Minnesota. I asked the young lady how the hell was my money going to help Norm now that that votes have already been cast. She didn't get it (the money or the concept). As long as there are these "blue-blood" Repubs trying to pull the party to the center they will continue to aid and abet the Left / Liberal agenda and continue to lose elections. You just can't fix Stupid.

I have to ask, when did Palin rail against abortion?  Her comments were that life was precious to her, thus her and her husband's decision to not terminate the life of her child when diagnosed with Downs Syndrome.

 No, our 'Unbiased' media, (I'm saying that part while THROWING UP), talked about it.

Almost the same way as those ads the NAACP ran with the chains dragging behind the pickup saying George Bush would bring back 'Seperate but equal'.

The negatives that our press showed against this woman was deplorable.  How many days did they spend on Biden's goofs?  Heck, they HID Biden for the last two weeks!

The Zogby poll where more of the Obama supporters got the questions right about Palin, but WRONG about Obama, (I love the one where 57% of Obama supporters still thought the Republicans were still in charge of congress.), just shows how biased our press is.

The truth is that if Palin wasn't on the ticket, this would have been an even MORE of a blowout. 

I live in Washington state, that is now in a $5 billion budget deficit, 20% of our budget.  This was KNOWN, but the Democrat governor still got re-elected.  Why?  Because our press didn't TALK about it.

But I have had a bunch of 'I told you so' rolling out.  And I intend a bunch more to come out for Obammy.

My theory is that the liberal media is keeping Sarah Palin ever present to spook the heck out of Peggy Noonan and drive her bonkers.

Poor Peggy Noonan!  What is to become of this is elitist RINO commentator?  She has a tin ear for family values and culture war issues.  She is probably almost as disdainful towards Christians as the rest of the MSM, but is aware that she had better keep quiet about that.

She is ambivalent about the subversiveness of the media, because she is part of the media and actually thinks that the media is on the whole a positive force in our society.  Yuck!

Her collection of dispositions and predilections have less and less currency in the shifting scene, along with RINOs and their shiftless “principles”.  Maybe she would be at home with a spot on The View.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.