Posts Tagged: Peggy Noonan


28
Oct 08

Best. Post-Election. Crackup. Ever.

Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures
see Sarah Palin pictures

It’s not even election day, and already the GOP is taking out the long knives. I’m unsure if McCain picked Palin as a stunt to woo the unicorns PUMAs, as a dog whistle to crazy-baselanders, or as a patsy for his increasingly probably defeat. In any case, the coalition of convenience formerly known as the GOP three legged stool of social conservatives, policy and pundit conservatives, and fiscal conservatives is rapidly coming off the rails. We can only hope that the GOP is too busy dealing with their own insurgents to pay attention to any of the real work getting done in picking up the pieces of eight-years of GOP-rule.


11
Jan 08

The War on Populism

It's been seething under the surface, aimed particularly at John Edwards and Mike Huckabee.  But as long as we remain distracted from the abstract and remote threats of the Culture War, the War on Immigration, and the War on Terror, and instead choose to worry about the cost of the war in Iraq as well as the nations own precarious financial system (which starts with the subprime mortgage market), the political race (and the races in the Senate and House of Representatives are going to be trending away from pro-Elitist messages in favor of strong traditional-Populist rhetoric.  (That's not to say that we haven't experienced targeted populistic campaigns in the past – Immigration, Welfare Reform, and Faith-Based Movements are all 'populism', in the sense that they act as popular dog-whistle within their own natural constituencies).


16
Jul 07

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