Video: Peggy Noonan votin’ for … McCain
posted at 3:42 pm on November 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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After weeks of suspense, she finally declares at around 4:10. I honestly don’t get it. After all the praise for The One’s coolness and supposed eloquence and passages like this about the ‘Cuda, she’s going Republican anyway?
In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It’s no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism.
Her last column declared “the imminent arrival of a new liberal moment.” Presumably this is her small way of standing athwart history yelling “stop.”
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They’re also both girls.
There, I said it. Let’s face it, Obama looks like he got a few wedgies in his school days.
YellowDawg on November 3, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Does this mean that she won’t be getting White House Press Sec???
nor on November 3, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Or,
4. She’s got family in the coal mines.
davidk on November 3, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Too little, too late. Peg, we still remember your hot mike moment. You can’t make it go away. You sense your market value falling, don’t you? Perhaps Paul Harvey will let you fill in for him on occasion. You can do the commercials.
a capella on November 3, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Fixed it for you.
Right_of_Attila on November 3, 2008 at 4:01 PM
No audience, needs money, Obama handouts not big enough.
tarpon on November 3, 2008 at 4:02 PM
WHO??
Bicyea on November 3, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Eh, I’m more annoyed by Peggy Noonan’s cloying preciousness than I am by her ideological caprice. Her brand of treacly prose is long past its expiration date, on either side of the aisle.
Glad to have her vote though. Glad to have every vote for McCain/Palin.
VOTE VOTE VOTE
Gilda on November 3, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Who cares what she says.. She is trying to redeem herself because things are changing and Mac is going to win.
romanianhacker on November 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Looks like there were no job offers…
right2bright on November 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM
I was a little upset with her criticism, but in my opinion, she at least did not seem to wallow gloriously in it like Kathleen Parker (going on Colbert, etc.).
Abby Adams on November 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Hadn’t read them all – but I like this one!
kybowexar on November 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM
No no. She thinks this proves to everyone that she’s unbiased and professional. F*cking Liar.
marklmail on November 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Wouldn’t that make her a coal-miner’s daughter?
wherte have i heard that one before.
YellowDawg on November 3, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Hey Peg
Please have a cup of shut the hell up.
And a goaway chaser.
TIA
drjohn on November 3, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Once you commit treason to the party and the conservative movement you should never be allowed back in!!!
This goes for Noonan, Powell, Buckley, Adelmam, Hagel and the rest of em……….
Sigtau22 on November 3, 2008 at 4:04 PM
She’s Neville Chamberlain … afraid to take a stand. Driving right down the middle. She has no spine and I dislike her intensely.
Did I mention she elitist and out of touch also? Oh yeah? Well there’s that too.
HondaV65 on November 3, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Who cares? Certainly not me.
uncalheels on November 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Is this tired old hag fucked-up on crack? Vulgarization? Does somebody need to break out the crayola for the dumb broad and bring her up to speed on what a shithole its been for at least over a decade now?
If DC is a greasy fart in a car, Palin is the mercifully opened window.
Noonan is deranged.
LimeyGeek on November 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM
I wonder how she’s going to vote.
JiangxiDad on November 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Its getting worse. Micheal Moore is now gloating about Obama starting warcrimes trials for Bush
William Amos on November 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM
I for one will not have that Noonan woman on my yacht after this. She’s wishy, but I would let Barry swab the deck, before I’d let her man the compass.
anti-boomer on November 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Well said, Abby! It’s ironic that the Sarah fanatics are ripping on her for criticizing Palin’s performance, because I was most impressed by how Noonan lambasted the left for its disgusting treatment of Palin in the days after she was selected. When she wrote that it “offended America’s sense of fairness and gallantry” she couldn’t have been more right.
Caiwyn on November 3, 2008 at 4:06 PM
I thing I’ve had my fill of this pretentious bore.
argos on November 3, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Maybe she suddenly found out that McCain has a chance, and wants to be his speechwriter!
Sorry, Peggy, the Pitbull with Lipstick writes her own speeches. You betcha!
Steve Z on November 3, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Another sign of Big Mac’s stock rising. Rats reboarding the ship.
ruben on November 3, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Hey, there’s an idea. “Why Peggy, I believe you’ve just had an ******.”
BigD on November 3, 2008 at 4:06 PM
At the end of the day, Peggy you know your audience. Some will take you back, some never left you, but for me, your “comfortable middle” brand of conservatism is the death of our party. No I don’t think you are evil or even manipulative, simply misguided. McCain’s principled stand on taking public funds for the election (something tells me this isn’t the only election year promise Obama has no intention of keeping) and his selection of Sarah Palin won my admiration and support. In turn, Peggy, your inability to distinguish the relative merits of a President Obama (129 “present” votes as state senator, mere 143 days as U.S. Senator) versus a VP Palin (runs and wins against corrupt incumbent governor of her own party and thus qualifies as having more executive experience than Obama or Biden) exposes you to charges of opportunism. McCain and Palin are not afraid to take on members of their own party or to lose an election if it means winning a war. You on the other hand are a “summertime soldier” unwelcome among those who wear the scars of battle such as McCain and Palin.
The MSM is the place for you. Enjoy your run with MSNBC and CNN.
Angry Dumbo on November 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Does that her one vote make up for the many votes she may have cost McCain?
Mr A on November 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM
If I thought this harpie was really voting for McCain, I’d have to reconsider my own support for Mac. Rest assured, however, the two-faced punditress said something entirely different off camera.
james23 on November 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Trust me….neither Noonan nor Frum will vote for McCain/Palin when the time comes. I’ll never forgive her for what she did to Sarah.
wtmvaliant on November 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Hey Peggy – your time is up. You sold out, and I actually think you can’t wait to pull the lever for the imminent arrival of a new liberal moment and you and all of your friends at PMSNBC did more than your part. Regardless of what you say in public.
You, Madam (pun intended) are done.
JeffinOrlando on November 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM
No.
We don’t like her because she’s made a business the last 3 years of criticizing all things Republican.
YellowDawg on November 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM
I used to like Ms. Noonan, but I have found her columns increasingly wordy and empty. Inside all the flowerly language used to be something resembling a point. No longer. Now all I see is, “Blah blah blah I love my voice blah blah blah.”
DrMagnolias on November 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM
That’s a good idea. Or LimeyGeek. He’s got a way with words that I enjoy:
JiangxiDad on November 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Ugh, how can she persuade anyone when her mind changes weekly? Get ready to update this post…she’ll come up with some wispy reason to change her mind come tomorrow.
Scranton on November 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Maybe she sees the internal polling now too and doesn’t want to be on the losing side. Who knows.
dengar007 on November 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Ugh her again…
I know you post it because we will comment Allahpundit but there’s a nice patch of pavement under a bus with Peggy’s name on it. Can we put her there for a
few yearsdecadesforever please?Theworldisnotenough on November 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM
You must have missed the old bag’s column calling Palin “vulgar” and generally dissing the h*ll out of her. Wake up. Pegs jumped ship. Feel free to follow her.
james23 on November 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Who is she voting for? Can anyone be sure at this point?
Seems like somebody has a little credibility problem. Just sayin…
JiangxiDad on November 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM
I have idolized her for so long and have been extremely disappointed in her this election season. She will probably still go in there and vote for THAT ONE. Shame on her.
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pseudonominus on November 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM
What an elitist little snot.
Sir Andrew on November 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM
She runs away with her one night stand for three weeks and crawls back home.
What did he do to you , dear?
*puts blanket around her and gives her a hot cocoa*
Saltysam on November 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM
After my first post, I went back and read what everyone else had to say. I hope you guys are more willing to forgive than you sound, if indeed she were to change her tune. Of course so far there is no evidence to suggest she will do so, but people can get off-track and then get back on it. Is it appropriate that she pay a certain “scorn tax” for her weak-tea support for McCain? Yeah, definitely. But she has, prior to 2004, been a strong voice for conservative principles and for those virtues that make America great.
You don’t have to let her off the hook entirely; but just ask yourself — could you see Reagan bitterly despising her forever? Let’s not turn into Conservative KOS-Kids. America, and conservatism, should be about love, not hate.
RegularJoe on November 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Peggy Noonan is a total FRAUD. We will NEVER forget Noonan’s cheap sexist shots against a Palin.
I am disgusted with Noonan’s act at self-preservation at the expense of the country.
That goes for you too Colin Powellosi.
Geochelone on November 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM
So little Peg thinks American politics is vulgar.
Well, honey, you might want to crack open a history book between G&T’s.
Bug off.
jjshaka on November 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Gotta love that Iowahawk.
Yeah, we get it.
manwithblackhat on November 3, 2008 at 4:13 PM
This woman has discredited herself and there is no going back. No true conservative can support Obama and his extreme liberal, socialistic agenda without throwing conservative values aside. Values do not change. She is a very shallow person and it disgusts me.
AZDREAMER on November 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM
“That would work in Pennsylvania”?!
Phoenician on November 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM
kewl, my password works!!!!!!!!
weeeeeeeeeeeeeee
JaneNovak on November 3, 2008 at 4:15 PM
And i care about this why??? She reminds me of some one on Quaalude’s every time she talks
MDWNJ on November 3, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Peggy knows that the only job she has (had?) is as a conservative — the left does not need her and there are plenty of lefty lady pundits to go around — can you say “hello” Kirsten Powers.
Her problem is that the right doesn’t need her, either. Nobody knows who she is, and without a viewpoint, who needs a pundit?
BigD on November 3, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Probably wouldn’t be as bad if she hadn’t ripped Palin just simply for the absolutely transparent fact that she didn’t graduate from some elitlist college or didn’t attend the right cocktail parties.
Krauthammer criticizes Palin too, but it’s obviously a different way than Parker or Noonan does it.
YellowDawg on November 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM
She is only on because of her link to Reagan. She didn’t have to be a true believer to write as she did. I give her props for her work for Reagan but let’s face it — a whore will whore herself out to the highest bidder. Clearly, she flirted with the dark side and got no response from the Obama-ites so she is trying to save face and worm her way back to the right. The woman is shameless.
grdred944 on November 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM
I guess she’s back on her meds, or off of them, or something.
Brat on November 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM
You’re a bad person.
Lehosh on November 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM
In a choice between Noonan and Palin, I’ll take Palin hands down.
‘nuf said.
.
GT on November 3, 2008 at 4:17 PM
reverse Bradley effect for good ole Peg.
redrock on November 3, 2008 at 4:18 PM
What a hag.
rockmom on November 3, 2008 at 4:19 PM
KKHHAANNN!!!
baldilocks on November 3, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Noonan can kiss it. There is no room for her in the reformation of the New GOP.
Later Peg.
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Gilda wrote:
Ouch!
I wish I’d written this — it captures my state of mind perfectly.
BLOC on November 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM
REALLY? The hell is wrong with that woman?!
Achilles on November 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I call it the David Brooks effect.
BTW ever noticed how Fox liberals are more palatable than other liberals? Must be why MSNBC loves Peggy
YellowDawg on November 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM
She’s slipped the surly bonds of sanity. But at least she’s not voting for socialism.
Jim Treacher on November 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the vote darling but you cost us thousands. Your editorials/columns were used to embarrass the Repub ticket not to mention the wasted time in refuting them by the candidates.
patrick neid on November 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM
I just want to take a stroll down memory lane for a second:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122059352189503479.html
Just a simple reminder.
Abby Adams on November 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Peggy who?
70Novafan on November 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM
If I were an editor or owner of a newspaper and wanted to stay in business, I would drop her colum, and hire this guy……….. Orson Scott Card.
(For the newbies on this site, a truly good read.)
Seven Percent Solution on November 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Uh oh – I guess she didn’t carry the party line enough for you guys.
Overboard she goes! Only narrow-minded bobble heads on this ship!
the sky is Falling on November 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM
It must be the hate mail she got.
Terrye on November 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Another RINO tries to kiss and make up after showing their true colors. Enjoy the Wilderness, Ms. Noonan. I suspect you’ll be wandering there for quite a while.
cestoeckel on November 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM
she has always come across as a pompous b****. Just like the “elite” minded liberals I can’t stand.
She is a great writer and her Thousand Points of Light speech is quite an accomplishment, but she’s weak. She is pretty much dead in the Republican party and in Conservative circles as far as I am concerned so she better get comfortable on MSNBC.
Daemonocracy on November 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Not so much about forgiving as it is questioning her mental balance. An outbreak of viral insanity would make as much sense as what happened in the East Coast conservative bubble. Palin did nothing to deserve this. Once the Pegster showed she isn’t safe around sharp objects, why would anyone trust her again?
Feedie on November 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Apparently Allahpundit is a Noonan consertative. But I think most of her followers are now MSNBC types who applaud her courage in falling in line with the cool kids.
snaggletoothie on November 3, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Get lost Noonan.
Wade on November 3, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Her vacillations indicate a propensity for a lack of grasping elaborate ideas quickly, digesting their meaning, and responding with a simple elegance and rhetorical wit.
It also suggests a psychosis that reveals itself in the presence of attractive and courageous women that have an intuitive sense for political complexities and a natural ability to decipher their meanings into laymen’s terms, like, say, a Governor Palin type.
Saltysam on November 3, 2008 at 4:25 PM
i hope all of the pundits croak on the CROW they will eat!!
we will NEVER forget what they have done to our girl, SARAH!! i for one, will never watch any of the main cable networks (except FOX), ABC,NBC,CBS news again. media is dead in america! it is disgusting how they have attempted to slice and dice her. yet, she still STANDS! if she can handle all of this crap, there is no doubt she can handle prez or vp. obama would be crying and sucking his thumb is he had to deal with a sliver of what she has had going on in her life these last few months. think about it. How much has she had in her life, that we know of?
1. Son born with Down’s
2. Son off to war
3. teenage daughter preg
4. tasergate
5. news media attempted murder
6. continue to work for her state from afar
7. american women stab her in the back
what else?
think she can’t multi-task?
sandlin71 on November 3, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Vulgarization? Does somebody need to break out the crayola for the dumb broad and bring her up to speed on what a shithole its been for at least over a decade now?
If DC is a greasy fart in a car, Palin is the mercifully opened window.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this post. Yes, that is exactly what she means by vulgarization.
Sally S on November 3, 2008 at 4:25 PM
To arbitrarily select the last post of the genre:
If that’s true, I’m not sure there’s any room for me, nor that there should be for anyone who claims to be a Christian. We should have things that we believe strongly, and that we stand up for strongly; but hating someone for believing them weakly — or even not at all — isn’t something I want to be a part of. If the GOP is going to be about bitter hatred, I hope you guys get the very small tent you seek, and the rest of us conservatives can start a new party or something.
On the other hand, maybe it’s you guys who are on the outside.
RegularJoe on November 3, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Are the rats reboarding? What could that mean?
towerh2o on November 3, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Whore.
RWLA on November 3, 2008 at 4:26 PM
A reading from the Gospel of Mathew the 20th Chapter v 1-16
20:1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius [1] a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ 5 So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ 7 They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ 8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ 13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ [2] 16 So the last will be first, and the first last.”
As much scorn as I have heaped on Noonan, I am glad at the 11th hour that she has come to her senses. I hope and pray that many of the Obama spell will be broken and many other voters follow in Peggy Noonan’s footsteps.
jerryofva on November 3, 2008 at 4:26 PM
That’s not fair. Allah may have a morbid sensibility, but I don’t think there’s ever been any chance he’s pull the lever for Obama.
Lehosh on November 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Sad, sad hag… she knows very well what kind of life she will have under zerobama, still she could not resist trashing Palin. And then switch back to the last minute… good ridance, but not before you VOTE.
Rookie on November 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM
I am really happy I was able to register, but unfortunately a bunch rats got in as well.
This fool seems to forget the public castration of a certain Joseph Lieberman or the recent charges of Racism against former President Bill Clinton and the outright misogyny leveled at Senator Hillary Clinton.
Go redistribute yourself in a wood chipper.
Daemonocracy on November 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Stick to the lib side Peggy. We don’t want you back.
Hammerhead on November 3, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Frankly Allahpundit…..
even though I get you… you still surprise me..
how can you not understand this?
She is an equal opportunity spoiler!!
After weeks of trashing Palin, she is leaving the Obama train even just for a moment to support McCain, even while trashing the Palin pick!!!
Don’t you get it!!
Maybe you do need medication?
She swooned over Obama for months and months and now she twists another new pretzel shape and you guys don’t understand her and want to forgive her!??
Good lord…
I won’t forgive her until she grows hair on her beard and comes out of the closet!!
Mcguyver on November 3, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Bush did just fine with his narrow tent in 2004.
YellowDawg on November 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM
C’mon, she got it right in the end.
So she focused on the fact that Sarah Palin is not ready to be POTUS. Nobody is.
Trouble is, everything Dems point to regarding Palin’s inexperience is far more troubling when applied to The One –before considering the fact that Obama brings that greater level of inexperience to the office on day one. There can be no doubt that Joe Biden wwould be locked in a closet before the, err, book is closed on inaguration day.
As I tell anyone who raises McCain’s age as an issue, “Did you see his mom at the convention?” Surviving 4 years is nothing for John McCain.
EconomicNeocon on November 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM
I plan on voting just once, than you very much.
wise_man on November 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Thor’s Banhammer is swingin’ your way ;)
LimeyGeek on November 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Oh, goody for her. As if we cared anymore…
I understood her early comments being disappointed in Palin to a certain extent, but to actually daydream about possibly voting for the O (!) she has forever crossed the line into nutty-land.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on November 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Here’s what I’m hoping for: five years from now, I wander into a McDonald’s late one evening, and my order is taken by a sixty-ish bonde-ish white woman. When she asks me in a whispery little girl voice “would you like fries with that?” I say “Why yes, Peggy, I would like fries with that.”
Kensington on November 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM
After her embarrassing truth telling when she thought the camera was off – how am I to trust her?
I dont. She has been noticably Pro-Obama for almost a year.
winged on November 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM
No word about opening a Pandora’s Box of Un-American, non-Christian, anti-Israel, anti-military goblins that will lose everything we have fought for and won over the last eight years?
The Obama Youth will be by to pick her up.
Hening on November 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM
If this were an Indiana Jones movie, Peggy would have morphed into volcanic ash for her smarmy treachery.
She chose…. unwisely.
DarthBrooks on November 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM
YEA, what he said.
scalleywag on November 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Sounds like a plotline for the next installment of “Sexy over Sixty”
YellowDawg on November 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM
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