July 17th, 2009 / 2:46 am
Snippets
Snippets
Justin Taylor—
It’s a cold day in Hell when I agree with every. last. word. of a Peggy Noonan column. Anyone down there want to shout back with a thermometer read? Here’s one of my many favorite parts of her take on the lately departing Mrs. Palin-
I think that link is heading over to her new column. Here’s the Palin piece.
Kinda wish more Republicans agreed with this assessment of Palin.
I think that link is heading over to her new column. Here’s the Palin piece.
Kinda wish more Republicans agreed with this assessment of Palin.
good link
good link
good points:
“She’s not Ivy League, that’s why her rise has been thwarted! She represented the democratic ideal that you don’t have to go to Harvard or Brown to prosper, and her fall represents a failure of egalitarianism.” This comes from intellectuals too. They need to be told something. Ronald Reagan went to Eureka College. Richard Nixon went to Whittier College, Joe Biden to the University of Delaware. Sarah Palin graduated in the end from the University of Idaho, a school that happily notes on its Web site that it’s included in U.S. News & World Report’s top national schools survey. They need to be told, too, that the first Republican president was named “Abe,” and he went to Princeton and got a Fulbright. Oh wait, he was an impoverished backwoods autodidact!
America doesn’t need Sarah Palin to prove it was, and is, a nation of unprecedented fluidity. Her rise and seeming fall do nothing to prove or refute this.
“The elites hate her.” The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conservative media that picked her and pushed her. The base barely knew who she was. It was the elites, from party operatives to public intellectuals, who advanced her and attacked those who said she lacked heft. She is a complete elite confection. She might as well have been a bonbon.
good points:
“She’s not Ivy League, that’s why her rise has been thwarted! She represented the democratic ideal that you don’t have to go to Harvard or Brown to prosper, and her fall represents a failure of egalitarianism.” This comes from intellectuals too. They need to be told something. Ronald Reagan went to Eureka College. Richard Nixon went to Whittier College, Joe Biden to the University of Delaware. Sarah Palin graduated in the end from the University of Idaho, a school that happily notes on its Web site that it’s included in U.S. News & World Report’s top national schools survey. They need to be told, too, that the first Republican president was named “Abe,” and he went to Princeton and got a Fulbright. Oh wait, he was an impoverished backwoods autodidact!
America doesn’t need Sarah Palin to prove it was, and is, a nation of unprecedented fluidity. Her rise and seeming fall do nothing to prove or refute this.
“The elites hate her.” The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conservative media that picked her and pushed her. The base barely knew who she was. It was the elites, from party operatives to public intellectuals, who advanced her and attacked those who said she lacked heft. She is a complete elite confection. She might as well have been a bonbon.
Whatever. There have always been paranoid narcissists. Today it’s Sarah Palin, thirty years ago it was Jim Jones– who, it must be said, wasn’t exactly coddled in his youth.
Seriously, though: an entire generation? Talk about yer hyperbollocks.
Whatever. There have always been paranoid narcissists. Today it’s Sarah Palin, thirty years ago it was Jim Jones– who, it must be said, wasn’t exactly coddled in his youth.
Seriously, though: an entire generation? Talk about yer hyperbollocks.