tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post114019496994296842..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Speaking of GOP Blondes That Drive Us NutsHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1140462464751415752006-02-20T14:07:00.000-05:002006-02-20T14:07:00.000-05:00I agree with you, Kathy; Peggy Noonan is, at best,...I agree with you, Kathy; Peggy Noonan is, at best, a milqtoast conservative, and I have never understood how she commands such respect. <BR/><BR/>I agree with Tom Van Dyke; she is conservative window dressing for the liberal insider set-and she labors to attain that status.Timothy Birdnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193888082216045778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1140239480376704202006-02-18T00:11:00.000-05:002006-02-18T00:11:00.000-05:00Peggy Noonan is one of the foxiest women over 50 (...Peggy Noonan is one of the foxiest women over 50 (and over 40 or 30 or...) on this planet, tho I'm glad she dropped the leather jackets. Plus, Republican men, who are the marrying kind (you could look up the exit polls), are suckers for a hot babe who talks like the Queen of England. You could look that up, too, altho I dunno where. You might have to take my word on that one.<BR/><BR/>Miss Peggy is a retro-con, sorta like George Will, part of the old-guard country club GOP: patrician, entirely reasonable-sounding albeit quaint to the old-guard FDR/Kennedy establishment, and entirely desirable as an invitee to a dinner party as some "spice" and diversity. (Sometimes, they even pretend to understand baseball.)<BR/><BR/>In her defense, she is from a different age, a different world: Ms. Noonan is indistinguishable from a JFK Democrat, but then again, so was Ronald Reagan.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1140219344238723842006-02-17T18:35:00.000-05:002006-02-17T18:35:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Devanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039407801743458960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1140217608483716792006-02-17T18:06:00.000-05:002006-02-17T18:06:00.000-05:00Kathy, I've also wondered of late what it is about...Kathy, I've also wondered of late what it is about Ms. Noonan that makes her so well respected. It seems that more often than not she's arguring for positions that are distinctly out of the conservative mainstream, which is fine, but how often do you do that before calling yourself a conservative is no longer truth in labeling. <BR/><BR/>She also doesn't always appear to me to be all there. A little ditzy, to use a sexist phrase. On this Cheney thing she has ditzed right off the edge.Mike D'Virgiliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03150525537509460056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1140212549825975392006-02-17T16:42:00.000-05:002006-02-17T16:42:00.000-05:00Ms. Noonan hits quite a few wrong notes these days...Ms. Noonan hits quite a few wrong notes these days. I'm quite sure she's wrong about Cheney. He'll be there till the end FOR CERTAIN.<BR/><BR/>I have a lot of affection for her thanks to the truly great political memoir "What I Saw at the Revolution." I have rarely enjoyed a book in that genre more.Hunter Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.com