Slog - Comments on "She doesn't seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts." http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic That's Peggy Noonan writing about Sarah Palin in The Wall Street Journal, and of all the recent sanity/heresy from the right, it's the most eloquent about the fatal failure of leadership that was the selection of would-be Vice President Palin: Her supporters accuse her critics of snobbery: Maybe she's not a big "egghead" but she has brilliant instincts and inner toughness. But what instincts? "I'm Joe Six-Pack"? She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation—"palling around with terrorists." If the Ayers case is a serious issue, treat it seriously. In the past two weeks she has spent... Copyright 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:00:48 -0800 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:54:32 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Vince "McCain put his campaign before his country". Of course he did. That's what Republicans always do. It's any means to an end. That is why they run as moderates and then govern as extreme right wingers.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178687 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178687 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:47:33 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi McCain has always been a selfish little bitch. I've yet to see any evidence that anything he's done in his life wasn't a selfish act. Even his military service was all about his own aggrandizement and ambition and had nothing to do with service to his country.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178692 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178692 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:53:42 -0800 Comment by MEC What's the pendant representing?

]]> MEC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178706 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178706 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:09:22 -0800 Comment by Lord Summerisle I hate it when that happens. Damn thought patterns!

]]> Lord Summerisle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178707 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178707 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:09:23 -0800 Comment by Dr. Savage Mudede The Noonan piece is another example of the lengths to which the "conservative intelligentsia" will contort reality until they appear, if only superficially, to be winning this contest. In the same article, she:

- Claims that McCain won the final debate, despite the fact that, by any metric except FOX News polling, the exact opposite is true.

- Derides Obama's eloquence as a supposed character flaw, yet later claims none of the candidates "speak like an adult in politics now."

- Lauds theoretical candidates who "come from nowhere, with modest backgrounds and short résumés" and, in failing to apply these traits to Gov. Sarah Palin as a positive, fails to acknowledge that these are the qualities the Right has used to ridicule Obama.

Peggy Noonan is a credulous fucking hack.

]]> Dr. Savage Mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178737 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178737 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:37:09 -0800 Comment by snoozebar I thought it was a very thoughtful, introspective essay on why Palin is a problem for the intelligent conservative.

Yo, Republicans. Less rabid frothing, more smart people like this.

]]> snoozebar http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178748 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178748 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:48:55 -0800 Comment by raindrop Sigh. Noonan is correct. Sigh again.

]]> raindrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178776 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178776 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:15:11 -0800 Comment by Levislade This piece was certainly tempered with BS, as 5 points out, but I did like the Palin bits, particularly this sentence: "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."

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178784 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178784 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:28:56 -0800 Comment by Seajay "McCain has always been a selfish little bitch. I've yet to see any evidence that anything he's done in his life wasn't a selfish act. Even his military service was all about his own aggrandizement and ambition and had nothing to do with service to his country."

Of course. I'm sure that every day Mr McCain spent in the Hanoi Hilton, he congratulated himself on building brownie points for the day when he'd be running for President. It's only when Democrats like John Kerry serve in a war that it's patriotic and unselfish, right?

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178831 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178831 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:07:15 -0800 Comment by ellarosa i have to admit seajay has a point here. it's not right to attack mccain for his service. there once was decency in the man, might still be somewhere if you train a microscope on him. the candidate as he stands before us NOW is the one we need to address.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178857 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178857 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:30:53 -0800 Comment by Greg Isn't Peggy Noonan the one who once loved everything about G.W.?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178943 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1178943 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:32:29 -0800 Comment by MichaelPgh Peggy Noonan is a fucking cow. She made Palin possible by being Reagan's cheerleader and convincing millions to drink the Republican Kool-Aid.

That she should now turn on her creation, along with everyone else who now regrets ever voting for Bush, is just fucking pathetic. See a better takedown of Noonan at Brad DeLong's blog:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/10/peggy-noonan-te.html#comment-135376947

You know you're in good hands with an article that starts: "After twenty years of stupidity and cowardice, Peggy Noonan finally tells the truth about something:"

]]> MichaelPgh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1179047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/she_doesnt_seem_to_understand_the_implic#c1179047 2008 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:54:32 -0800