What the MSM doesn't get about Palin people

rod, in all honesty, how do you even consider posting this when noonan was caught off-mic saying this:

"It's over," Noonan said.

When Chuck Todd asked her if this was the most qualified woman the Republicans could nominate, Noonan responded, "The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives. Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and that's not what they're good at, they blow it."

I'm waiting with baited breath to see how Rod updates this post.

"Media" being the plural of "medium", the headline would read, corrected, as "What the MSM don't (not "doesn't") get about Palin people".

What MSM don't get most of all, most tellingly: plural subject-verb agreement on their own nomenclatural turf.

Next up - speaking of matters "Palinesque" [dons scraggly grey desert-island beard] - that most widely-abused contraction used when the apostrophe-free possessive is called for, viz.:

It's...

"Loyalty oaths"?!?!?! Mother Sarah is Dubya in drag.

More, from the same article:

From the The Anchorage Daily News on February 1, 1997:

City librarian Mary Ellen Emmons will stay, but Police Chief Irl Stambaugh is on his own, Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin announced Friday.

The decision came one day after letters signed by Palin were dropped on Stambaugh's and Emmon's desks, telling them their jobs were over as of Feb. 13.

The mayor told them she appreciated their service but felt it was time for a change. "I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I intend to terminate your employment ..." the letter said.

Palin said Friday she now feels Emmons supports her but does not feel the same about Stambaugh.

As to what prompted the change, Palin said she now has Emmons' assurance that she is behind her. She refused to give details about how Stambaugh has not supported her, saying only that "You know in your heart when someone is supportive of you."

bwahahaha!

well, rod, peggy noonan IS part of the mainstream media. she DOES work for the wall street journal, which is, if i'm not mistaken, the paper with the largest circulation in the country.

and she thinks that "it's over" and that the palin nomination was "political bulls*** about narratives."

face it, rod: the only reason they picked palin was that she had a baby with downs. that's it. there have to be at least 25 other republican women with equal to higher qualifications otherwise. instead it's this culture war crap that you peddle that got palin the nomination.

and its blowing up in your faces.

Interesting article, especially when contrasted with her now-famous "it's over" rant on a live mic.

Um, did you read her whole column? She admitted that she and other members of the "chattering classes" live in a bubble, and misjudge things. I'm pretty sure that's a mea culpa.

As for the potty mouth stuff, oh please, let's not be prisspots. I'm something of a pottymouth myself. Grow up.

rod! her title is "a clear and present danger to the american left"!

and on the same day she says "it's over" with regards to mccain's chances because of the palin nomination!

gimme a break. face facts - your enthusiasm for palin's natalism and (possible) homeschooling aside, this has been a train wreck for the GOP.

No, what you folks don't get is my extremely social conservative in-laws all suddenly deciding to vote for Obama, even though they freely use the N word to describe him because they have or have had teenage daughters and they agree with me that Palin is a monster.

watching the way so many "conservatives" have allowed themselves to be used (again) by the cynicism of the GOP machine reminds me of this quote from the run-up to the iraq war:

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

I have to agree with many here who have pointed out Noonan's hypocrisy. Compare this column to her "off-mic" comments. They're pretty much two widely varying opinions.

I certainly like her writing and her analysis in today's column is actually both substantive and spot-on. But let's face it, she's an Inside-the-Beltway snob -- and she apparently doesn't even believe what's she's peddling.

That must be a terrible feeling. I have the luxury of actually believing what I write, whether I happen to turn out to be correct or not.

I also happen to think Noonan is wrong that "it's over." I think it's only getting started, and it kicks off tonight.

I'd like to take a step back and review some of the predictions and positive qualities I (and many others) listed about Palin several days ago - on August 30. I don't think any of this has substantively changed. I'm sure many of you will disagree, and I'd like to hear specifics (because I know you have it in you!). These are high-altitude observations, not getting bogged down in the tit for tat trench warfare. And keep in mind that's how politics works. What is the impression voters will come away with, the top of mind message? Here's what I wrote 4 days ago:

1. As one blogger put it, "Sarah Palin runs a state. Barack Obama runs his mouth." In other words, while Obama and Biden have ZERO executive experience, she has ACTUAL executive experience.

2. She is a strong, hardworking woman of faith with energy and courage.

3. Her husband, "the first dude," is a stand-up family man and solid blue-collar guy.

4. She is pro-life - with a Down's syndrome son and four other children.

5. Her oldest son is going to Iraq -- whoops, that pretty much cuts the Democrats off at the knees for any hoped-for "chickenhawk" name-calling. They've now got to face a former POW and war hero, and the mother of a soldier.

6. She and her husband home-school their kids.

7. She brings an instant focus and expertise on the energy issue.

8. A great President or Vice President is a great leader. Leaders lead. McCain and Palin have led.

9. Palin's approval ratings in Alaska are over 80 percent. The people of her state have given her their stamp of approval.

10. Every time someone points out her "lack of experience" it points to the top of the Democratic ticket. In other words, John McCain's #2 has more experience -- and more executive experience -- than the #1 on the top of the Democratic ticket.

11. She completely undercuts the Obama "change" mantra - She is an anti-pork, pro-reform outsider who has taken on her own party, while Biden is the consummate Washington insider and Obama has been a party-line voter in the Senate 97 percent of the time (change we can believe in, indeed).

12. Perfect political jujitsu. Any attack the American Left uses against her will have an immediate boomerang effect. Here's a thought experiment: Try these potential attacks out in your head, and see what sorts of feelings they stir (here's a clue, most Americans will react with the same level of disgust against rabid far Left attacks) - "She's a right-wing Christian!" "She's against a woman's right to choose!" "She's been the mayor of a hick town!" "She gives her kids funny names" "She's a hockey mom!" "She was in a beauty pageant!"

13. As an addendum to this, the American Left is going to get very unhinged in coming weeks as their attacks on Palin boomerang and fail, so get ready to see some whacked-out rage. In fact, MSNBC's Keith
Olbermann has already weighed in with a big ol' dose of the hate last night.

14. In the coming debates with Joe Biden, all of his "strengths" are now gone. If he comes out as the condescending attack dog he is known to be, he'll come across as simply bullying the pretty young lady.

15. Plus, Palin is no shrinking flower. She's a tough, seasoned campaigner who has taken on her own party in her own state (to the point where they're now fomenting an "investigation" against her for getting her scumbag former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper - he was tasering his son and Palin's nephew, and even Olbermann admitted last night this issue was a "nonstarter").

16. She is no "token pick" or "trophy veep" - She's more prepared to be president if something happens to John McCain than Obama is to be president if something didn't happen to John McCain.

17. She pulls potential Hillary Clinton voters to her, who feel dissed by the DNC. She offered respect to Hillary and Geraldine in her speech.

18. She has charisma and smarts to burn - articulate and quick on her feet.

19. She wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth - she has worked hard for everything she has, out on a fishing boat in Bristol Bay!

20. She makes Obama and Biden look like girls. As a lifelong NRA member, she nails down the gun-rights voters. She hunts moose, and makes mooseburgers for her kids! Awesome!

21. She helps McCain in the Mountain states like Colorado and Montana.

22. She's not friends with racist Jeremiah Wright or 1960s radical terrorist Bill Ayers.

23. She's been proud of her country her entire life (not just this year when her president won the nomination. Ahem, cough). Yes, my use of the term "president" is intentional because of the Obamaniacs' presumptuous attitude about the "chosen One" heretofore.

24. She smoked marijuana (when it was legal in Alaska) but doesn't try to dodge the issue - "Unlike Bill Clinton, I can't claim I never inhaled."

Well Noonan has some backtracking to do now that she's admitted that Palin was a cynical "bulls@#t narrative" and now "its over" for the McCain campaign.

Christian conservatives are a joke. You don't stand for the teachings of Jesus Christ. You stand for politicizing God. You force your beliefs on others and the results are division and dischord. There is no love in that. I love the teachings of Christ, but I find the shallow interpretations of the christian right to be insulting and childish.

creationism? no rights for domestic partners? capital punishment? Iraq war? more guns? criminalizing abortion in cases of rape? This is a joke right?

I've just seen the Noonan clip, and I didn't realize that it happened today. I agree, then, with you who have called her out on this. What does she really believe about Palin? There's a lot in that Journal column that could be asserted by someone who thinks that Palin was still a disastrous pick. But it looks bad for Noonan, no doubt. She should take her own advice about being careful about how the world looks from inside the Bubble.

On the Murphy Brown point, remember that Murphy Brown deliberately sought to have a baby without a father. That was what Quayle was criticizing.

Really, Kirk? I had forgotten. My bad. Thanks for the correction.

This happened on an MSNBC hot microphone with two conservatives:
"It's over," said Noonan, who then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen.

"The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullsh** about narratives," she said. "Every time Republicans do that ... because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at and they blow it."

Murphy (2000 McCain Campaign Advisor) chimed in:

"The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."

Palin is not a true social conservative, she's a careerist whose kids get leftover time, but most of the GOP base is too dim to see this, they just swallow what Noonan calls the BS narrative. Idiocracy I tell you.

Thank you for the correction, Houghton.

There is another comparison, that between Murphy Brown and Sarah Palin. As I recall, one of the issues with MB was whether the uber-professional MB could successfully have a career and raise a child simultaneously. This comparison goes more to Palin's newborn than the pregnant daughter. At the time, the feminists' answer was a resounding YES, though we got to see Murphy struggle through the difficulties. Ironically, now the feminists have reversed their course. Short-sighted, if you ask me.

"Actually Kirk, the controversy was over the fact that Murphy Brown chose not to marry the father.

"That's why Dan Quayle criticized the show. Quayle criticized the show's writers for ignoring the importance of fathers. It makes me really wonder, sometimes, when people leave out this important detail, whether they're doing so intentionally."

How about the fact that the father of Murphy Brown's child was her ex-husband--so she had ALREADY tried being married to him and it had not worked. And, for that matter, by Catholic standards, she was STILL married to him, so what was the fuss about anyway?

Peggy Noonan said this is either a big win or a big loss in the WSJ article.

Sometimes I feel that what is said off camera when they assume no one is recording is more important than what is said on camera or in a printed article.

I think what this shows is that the front that all GOP members are thrilled about Palin is false. Even Noonan has reservations and its her job to make it sound great.

I think there were many better choices, but unfortunatly all of those women are pro-choice.

But of course in this day and age you are pro-choice if you make any exception for abortion. I remember back 8 years ago when my position was still pro-life as was McCain of 2000.