La Noonan: “It’s Over” for McCain

September 3rd, 2008 by TRex @ 7:45 pm| Posted in 2008 Race, Beltway Bores |

Beware, oh, beware the unexpectedly live microphone! Did Jesse Jackson teach us nothing?

This is what Peggy Noonan said about Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in her Wall Street Journal column today, entitled, “The Clear and Present Danger to the American Left”:

Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing — who is really one of them and who is not — and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.

She could become a transformative political presence.

But here’s what Listen to the Prozac Peggy says about Palin when she thinks she’s among friends:

Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor work. Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. And these guys, this is all like how you want to (inaudible) this race. You know, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work.

Noonan: It’s over.

Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

CT: Don’t  you think the Palin pick was insulting to  Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too (inaudible)

Noonan: I saw Kay this morning.

Murphy: They’re all bummed out. I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

Todd: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

Noonan: The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives and (inaudible) the picture.

Yeah, but what’s the narrative?

Noonan: Every time the Republicans do that because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at and they blow it.

Well, isn’t it nice for once to get the unvarnished, un-spun version of what they think inside the Bubble?

Meanwhile, the McCain campaign is hotly denying what the National Enquirer is saying about Sarah and her husband’s business partner:

(ST. PAUL, MINN.) – John McCain’s campaign threatened legal action against the National Enquirer today for running a story about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, allegedly having an affair with her husband’s business partner.

“The smearing of the Palin family must end. The allegations contained on the cover of the National Enquirer insinuating that Gov. Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie,” said McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt.

“The efforts of the media and tabloids to destroy this fine and accomplished public servant are a disgrace. The American people will reject it.”

Right.  Because there’s nothing the American people hate more than a salacious sex scandal served with a heaping helping of hypocrisy.  Normally, I would take anything the Enquirer says with a pound of salt, but Jonah Goldberg showed me the light about that a couple of weeks ago.

Tabloid Trash [Jonah Goldberg]

Whatever the merits of the whole Edwards love child story, are we really supposed to believe that one of America’s most famous trial lawyers wouldn’t sue a publication that printed defamatory and slanderous lies about him?

Also, it’s worth pointing out that while the Enquirer may or may not be scrupulous in its choice of stories — that’s in the eye of the beholder — it is pretty scrupulous about its facts. They win lawsuits. They’ve broken a host of stories the MSM guys couldn’t.

07/24 06:47 AM

Is is irresponsible to speculate about White Trash America’s newest screamy-voiced, wild-eyed Christian Mom heroine?  Given what’s at stake (come on, y’all, say it with me!), it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

Litbrit and I were discussing it earlier, and she doesn’t even think that Palin will make it to the end of her speech tonight without withdrawing from the race.  I dunno, they flew Bristol’s high school dropout Baby-Daddy down from Alaska and everything.  I think they’re going to go through with it.  Possibly all the way to the bitter end in November.

Goody.