Kicking the Rats Off the Ship
Joshua Pundit on Oct 18 2008 at 7:55 am | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Media Watch
There’s something very interesting happening with certain self-styled ‘Conservative’ intellectual pundits these days..David Brooks, Chris Buckley, Kathleen Parker and especially Peggy Noonan come to mind.
They’re all willing to tacitly or openly endorse an avowed socialist for the presidency, primarily because they consider Sarah Palin an idiot and she embarrasses them at the smart, sophisticated parties they attend in Manhattan or Georgetown with their Liberal buddies.
Here’s Noonan in full bloom with her latest opus ‘Pailin’s Failin’ ( no link..you can find this crap on your own if you’re so inclined):
There has never been a second’s debate among liberals, to use an old-fashioned word that may yet return to vogue, over Mrs. Palin: She was a dope and unqualified from the start. Conservatives and Republicans, on the other hand, continue to battle it out: Was her choice a success or a disaster? And if one holds negative views, should one say so?
…we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office. She is a person of great ambition, but the question remains: What is the purpose of the ambition? She wants to rise, but what for?
She doesn’t think aloud. She just . . . says things.
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. She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite. She doesn’t seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts.
Lessee…Governor Palin is pro energy independence, pro life, pro small government, supports drilling in ANWR and off shore, unapologetically working class, in favor of a vigorous and pro-active foreign policy, pro Second Amendment, supports lower taxes, the death penalty, and has a record of taking on entrenched special interests and cleaning up corruption in government.
Nah…she’s just a pillowcase with no concrete positions or original thoughts of her own, right Peg? Can’t figure out whom she is or what she stands for…not like Barack Obama.
One thing she hasn’t done…been caught lying to her own audience about some embarrassing comments that got picked up when she thought the microphone was off, like a certain columnist and self-styled pundit I could name.
These people despise Sarah Palin, not because she doesn’t think but because she’s honest, unreconstructed and says what she thinks, and it doesn’t quite fit their ‘nuanced’ world view. So they’ll torpedo her and gravitate to Barack Obama, a real intellectual they can understand.
The quaint idea that people like Noonan are trying to peddle is that by doing their best to destroy the McCain-Palin ticket they’re being True Conservatives and setting the stage for a reconstruction after the One marches into the White House.
They’re lying through their teeth.
What they’re really doing is setting themselves up in position to be employed as token ‘conservatives’ after the Left comes to power.
That’s a despicable act of cowardice but they’re welcome to it. I just wish people like Peggy Noonan would stop lying about it.
When the rats are leaving the premises, I have no problem with helping them to their new home with a good swift kick in the right direction.
Their kind we can do without.
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