Everyone can see the republican party implode, I never understood the middle class and poor right wing voters. This has been happening for a long time. A long time coming, but inevitable. Nobody can say they didn't do it to themselves, and it is about time!

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And now the bottom knows they're the bottom.
One for your "oops, did I say that out loud?" files, Peggington.

is so strong on that side that they can be brought together by a simple whistle.

Very little will be needed other than the possibility of a liberal woman, for example, being president.

Whether or not you or I believe Hillary is a liberal, and I believe she is on many important subjects, does not matter.

They do, they think she is a liberal commie pinko.

Peggy appears to be reaching out to those she indicts in hopes of reminding them exactly what is at stake.

The way she mimics thoughtfulness, what with her English major vocabulary, has always been to her good credit. I admire her wordsmithery. She's been able over the years to elevate and immortalize the language support some truly horrible public policy decisions. Girl's gotta earn a buck, so I begrudge no one for earning a living.

Now, on the other hand, she ain't too good on the facts. I still remember the time she went on John Stewart and praised Reagan for having had only "one scandal" during his tenure as president. Stewart's lame response was "Yeah, but it was a doozy!" No, the only doozy involved was Noonan's outright fib about the Reagan Admin's horribly corrupt record. It was the most scandal-ridden administration since Harding (only to be topped by the Dubya Bush Admin 12 years later).

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Still, Noonan is a classy lady. I can only imagine how frightening it must be for her to see the eloquent mask of her conservative philosophy ripped away by the big orange cave man. Like waking up from a 10 year coma and realizing how bad your morning breath got after a decade without Colgate.

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"We are witnessing history. Something important is ending. It is hard to believe what replaces it will be better," Peggy Noonan wrote.



"We are witnessing history. Something important is ending. It is hard to believe what replaces it could be WORSE than the GWB Administration," -PassingFair


The Bush's BROKE the republicans.

self deception (I imagine you didn't think you could!), and survival. The post-Reagan era, once he was safely voiceless, was the launching pad for a 20-year career as TV's official keeper of the flame. When that finally grew too old to market, her new schtick was a DC-insider representation of nationalistic Christian conservative values, (supposedly) elegantly understated white candle version. She explained God's will to us, demonstrated through W, the neocons, Rove.

Now, what? I literally haven't listened to her in a couple of years. Will the theme of a post-2016 GOP resurrection, perhaps a neo-reaganism version, be Noonan's own next rebirth? Or perhaps she will become the voice of the oppressed citizen against the power of a dangerously out of control government. Charles Koch would like that, I imagine.

Where she attempts to use her vast vocabulary to praise and give support to the Tea Party and the anger they brought to the discourse in hopes that it would shift the party further rightward and make it more ideologically pure. All these republicans are lamenting Donald Trump when it was them over the past 8 years calling for someone exactly like him.

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Actually not hard to believe at all, Peggy. After all, what would it take for it to be better? Not much. A chastened Republican Party reeling from the loss of the Presidency and the Senate might actually decide once again that elections matter and they need to respect the will of the electorate. And that would be better than the head in the sand denial which has been a prominent feature of the Obama presidency.

Fugg that pretentious git Peggy Knewnuthin'- I remember her detestable comments re the President.

of your beloved Ronnie Reagan..?

The current status of the Republican Party is no aberration...the DNA has not been corrupted...

the gene pool has merely evolved towards it strongest nature...

and you were one of the troubadours of that 'new dawn'...

It will just assume a new form. There's always a right-left dichotomy. That's how the Founders set it up.