Although no one can know about Noonan

Just as no one can know whether or not George Will likes to rape little girls on the subway. Its just one of those things we may never know.

Have to interrupt your point right there, anegus.

Phrases like “hopelessly over her head” and “a cancer on the Republican party” are inconsistent with the expression “reservations”. Imho.

Jaibones on October 8, 2008 at 9:56 PM

The comment I was responding to concerned Peggy Noonan. I would not characterise Brooks’ vile statements as reservations either.

There you go, AllahPundit.

…Palin’s rise just reopens terrible psychological wounds for millions of American women who don’t want to be reminded indirectly by Sarah that they made the wrong choice.

Sapwolf on October 8, 2008 at 6:28 PM

Thanks, Sapwolf
I worked as a therapist for many years and professionally ministered to women who tragically suffered mightily from having undergone abortions. It’s a huge psychological burden that many women never bear easily. Although no one can know about Noonan, your comment in general was very insightful. However, Sarah’s choice actually reminds women quite directly about their wrong decision to kill and stands in stark contrast to societal norms. Abortion affects many women in ways that are unimaginable but predictable. Nevertheless, God bless Sarah’s courageous, loving example.

Whoever told that jerkoff he was smart? Some classy guy, going to an Atlantic lunch and getting down on his knees to service a whole room of liberals.
peacenprosperity on October 8, 2008 at 9:23 PM

I’m sure they told Brooks he was smart. Go ahead and laugh all you want – it worked, didn’t it?

I’ve done similar things; just not with anybody nearly as ugly (or as stupid) as he is.

He’s gotten comfortable with a party adrift, a party that has succeeded in doing nothing since the Iraq war ate everyone’s brains.

If there’s been a cancer in the GOP it’s been Bush. Palin is the cure, not the disease.

All the good little British socialists had through the ’60s and ’70s whittled themselves down to ever less competent leadership, eventually arriving at an irreducible minimum in Prime Minister James Callaghan. Thatcher was as close to a Palin as you’d get in postwar Britain, almost a character right out of Monty Python – but fearsomely competent.

So when you read Hitchens, bear in mind his opinion of Palin is little if any worse than his opinion of Reagan.

Of course, he was wrong then, and he’s wrong now.

People loved Hitchens because he supported (still supports) the Iraq war and some tried to pretend he wasn’t a Marxist.

aengus on October 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM

And that my friend is the problem. It’s nice seeing the left getting eaten by one of there own no doubt, especially someone with some real talent to intellectually zing someone. But some people went completely off the deepend thinking he is something he is not, while casting conservtives who disagreed with the war completely overboard(Robert Novak, Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul and the list goes on).
We hate these people but we love a stone cold marxist.

And now these people kick you when your down, surprise surprise.
Take David Frum, David Brooks, Warren Rudman, C Hitchen and file them under pay no attention fair weather friends.

Hitchens is a brilliant writer. Isn’t that enough?

RightOFLeft on October 8, 2008 at 6:08 PM

I’ll just assume you are kidding.

His point about anti-intellectualism being a cancer is well taken

Only if he admits that the institutions that formerly trained our intellectuals are in shambles. Exactly where are they supposed to spring from?

Columbia + Harvard = Obama.

BDavis on October 8, 2008 at 10:01 PM

No, not fragged. He’d never engage in the kind of risky conduct that could lead to violence. He’s spent his life cowering from that sort of thing.

But Brooks Fisks himself right off the bat by quoting Buckley with the anti-elitism quote of all time. Once Fisked, he can’t recover. He’s an idiot, of course.

You fool only yourself. New at this?