Noonan’s message to Palin: ‘Our country is facing huge challenges. Suck it up and be serious.’
Noonan’s message to Palin: ‘Our country is facing huge challenges. Suck it up and be serious.’
Today on The Laura Ingraham Show, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan criticized Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) lack of gravity while the nation is experiencing a major financial crisis:
INGRAHAM: She’s saying to people out there who don’t feel like they’re connected to this political culture, “I’m hearing you, I know how you live, I know what your values are, I’m hearing you.” I think that’s what she trying to say. [...]
NOONAN: Oh, I think they both ought to get more serious. Our country is facing huge challenges. Suck it up and be serious. And don’t be doing this cute colloquial stuff. It doesn’t sit right with me. And it doesn’t seem fitting. … She’s a spirited person, I get all that, but I would like her to be more serious.
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Noonan’s comments represent larger conservative disenchantment with Palin. Yesterday, David Brooks said that she should “read a few more books,” and Kathleen Parker admitted that conservatives “gave her a pass up front.”
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Noonan be knockin', but there's nobody home...
October 6th, 2008 at 5:32 pmIsn't this the same Noonan who was praising Palin for her "brilliant" debate performance?!
What's happened to Noonan now? Did she get sober over the weekend or what?!
October 6th, 2008 at 5:32 pmThere, not goin' to happen, there also.
(I agree Noonan is going schizo).
October 6th, 2008 at 5:35 pmYeah, yeah, she should be serious... but isn't she so cute? And folksy?
October 6th, 2008 at 5:35 pm“Noonan’s message to Palin: ‘Our country is facing huge challenges. Suck it up and be serious.’”
- - Palin can't. It's not part of the beauty pageant process. Betty Boop for VP.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:38 pmNoonan just echoed the point on Chris Matthew's Hardball. Chris broke down the Repug move to paint Obama as a risky terror linked candidate, despite two years of public vetting.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:39 pmPalin can't be serious...that goes against the hockey mom/joe sixpack code of conduct. Plus it hurts a bimbo's brain to ponder and strain to the thought of seriousness.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:40 pmHow can she say Palin's not being serious?!
October 6th, 2008 at 5:43 pmI did a google on "noonan palin debate" and she did, in fact, claim that Palin had "killed". The knotheads over at freerepublic fell all over themselves panting about Palin and dumping on Peggy Noonan and all her liberal elitist friends. They must be getting ready to string her up right about now.
I don't know what Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter to their god, Ronnie, did to p!ss off the wingnuts. Must have been something really awful, like suggest that GWB was a bit thick.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:43 pmSilly me. It was Peggy Noonan who called the Palin choice "bullsh!t" on tape. No wonder the wingers hate her.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:44 pmIt's as if after six+ years of repubs falsly accusing ds of being weak, they suddenly decide that National Security is not important and cutesy gov't outsider is the way to go.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pmBible Spice just acts cute to cover her terror of the "scary black man". She's "fearful" of anyone "palling around" with terrorists. And her handlers won't let the press talk to the crowds at her events. I seriously doubt we will see any pretense of substance from her.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:50 pmGee I wonder if she has stocks?
October 6th, 2008 at 5:50 pmOops! Forgot the link.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN?SITE=IACED&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
October 6th, 2008 at 5:51 pmThe only Republicans who don't want Palin to be serious are the GOP'ers who have Viagra prescriptions and use Sarah's "cuteness" as a source of added stimulus. It's hard to buy porn when they think it'll always make baby Jesus cry.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:52 pmB b b but, she can gut a moose with her stiletto high heels on.
The GOP is reduced to smears and a freak show.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:53 pmlurker Says:
Gee I wonder if she has stocks?
Many male Republicans want to make her "stalk"-ings drop.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:54 pmBTW, thanks for not using the "winky picture," TP. :-)
October 6th, 2008 at 5:59 pmPalin actually used the racist term "man-child" to describe Obama, This hearkens back to the days of public lynchings and KKK terror
October 6th, 2008 at 6:00 pmPalin should be "sucking it up"????
Maybe that's the problem - you know, like with lusty John and the witchdoctor and several others.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:00 pmsarah, stop acting
like a boob with boobs.
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'k?
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thank you.
^
October 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pmPalin is way in over her head, and many 'conservatives' know it. However, she should be able to get a job as a 'fluffer' in pornoland. Smarts are not required there.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pmPalin won't allow the media to vet her or clear her name in the Troopergate investigation but she is out throwing dirt with issues vetted in the Democratic Primary. The economy is tanking and the McSame campaign has nothing to offer. It is time to shoot out the lights and call the law.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:04 pmdae Says:
Palin actually used the racist term “man-child” to describe Obama, This hearkens back to the days of public lynchings and KKK terror
That's because she's an outsider and a maverick. You know, the same token b.s. that McCain uses to get away with his incredible poor taste in jokes and anecdotes. Then again, Sarah hasn't taken to the higher aspects of politics...so the muckraking might be her only hope now that the ballots are about to be all finalized, printed and all.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:08 pmHow can McCain think that 'Country First' slogan is a sellable one when chose Sarah Palin as his VP running mate?
October 6th, 2008 at 6:08 pmso, the "pitbull" joke was scripted, sounds like...
she's just doing her job.
randi was reading part of a matt tiabi piece about her:
Mad Dog Palin
The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin/print
"what her candidacy says about America"
that hurts me the most... my family is included...
October 6th, 2008 at 6:10 pmUncle Ho Says @ 22:
Palin is way in over her head, and many ‘conservatives’ know it.
Or as David Letterman so nicely put it, Gov. Palin is in over her hair.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:11 pmtarazan Says:
How can McCain think that ‘Country First’ slogan is a sellable one when chose Sarah Palin as his VP running mate?
Because McCain is an idiot who hasn't had a good thought since sometime in 2000.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:12 pmThe snowbilly seems to have found her "serious" niche: making seriously racist and/or untrue comments about Obama (or having the person introducing her in Florida do so).
October 6th, 2008 at 6:19 pmpeggy Nooner...ummm Noonan, complaining that somebody ELSE is not 'serious'? What the phoque? Her idolatry of the Gipper utterly disqualifies her from any consideration as a "public intellectual" or anyone worth paying attention to...I'm betting he was boffing her, or she was blowing him. Anyway, she's still narcotized by the taste of Raygun-Kum...
October 6th, 2008 at 6:20 pmSarah Palin is proudly running for vice president as "joe sixpack", with a guy whose (wife's) fortune is derived from Anheuser Busch, makers of Budweiser beer - now, really, how serious can they expected to be?
October 6th, 2008 at 6:21 pmkaty Says:
Mad Dog Palin
The scariest thing about John McCain’s running mate isn’t how unqualified she is - it’s what her candidacy says about America
Ouch. Great piece, dripping with cynicism. I could quote from it, but it hangs together too well and should be read in its entirety.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:24 pmHow can McCain think that ‘Country First’ slogan is a sellable one when chose Sarah Palin as his VP running mate?
He drops the o,r and y.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:25 pmlaura, laura, laura, how hard it must be to defend someone who would call you a filthy dyke once you've left the room and deny you the rights guaranteed you in the constitution.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:31 pmI'm serious ; Palin is a fu(king clown and Noonan is not much different than she ...........
October 6th, 2008 at 6:47 pmPalin's puttin' on her lipstick... She must be gettin' ready to be doin' some more slimin', lyin' and smearin'...
October 6th, 2008 at 6:52 pmOn the flip side, when required, Peggy Noonan will say whatever someone pays her to say.
A thousand point of bullsh*t.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:09 pmAnyone (dem, repug, indie, whatever) that thinks palin was added to add any intellect, integrity, or ideas to this ticket just isn't payin' attention.
Noonan - this is what the criminal cabal you helped usher in is all about.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:46 pmfrom a link at the end of the tiabi piece - another must read:
The Truth About Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin's credentials as a "reformer" are nothing but spin. She has sided with Big Oil, lobbied to increase pork spending and abused her public power to carry out personal vendettas. Here's a guide to separating myth from fact.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23140513/the_truth_about_sarah_palin
#8 is proof that this snowbilly (love it) was a complete make-over.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:47 pmThe Republican have fiddled while the economy has burned. The Democrats have been disinterested spectators.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:04 pmImagine, one loon (Noonan), giving advice too another (Palin). This could be a great segment on SNL?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:16 pmThat's "minus 200 euros"...
October 6th, 2008 at 11:13 pmI thought being stupid was a good thing, Peggy? It's hilarious to see conservatives all of a sudden find out reading is GOOD. I thought books were for 'dem elitists?
7 years ago, these were the same people screaming on how Bush's lack of curiosity was good for him.
I guess Peggy looked at her 401K and found it's down to 40 cents (which is -200 euros now).
That's why they're turning. It's not that they are having ephiphanies. Bush and company is screwing with their money, and they don't like it.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:14 pm"Suck it up" was a strange choice of words. Reminds me of the Jenna Jameson line in "Zombie Strippers".
October 7th, 2008 at 1:52 amI could make a joke about Palin "sucking it up", but I'll resist the temptation!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:55 amShe must think she's Britney Spears running for vice-president. How old is this Palin chick? I wonder.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm