Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan eviscerates Donald Trump in new column.

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:  

The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity. 

He’s not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he’s whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic. He’s a drama queen. It was once said, sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush that he reminded everyone of her first husband. Trump must remind people of their first wife. Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity. […] 

His public brutalizing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t strong, cool and deadly; it’s limp, lame and blubbery. “Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes,” he tweeted this week. Talk about projection. 

Damn!

 Noonan sums up her verbal curb stomping of Donald Trump thusly:

Donald Trump now is like an unfunny Woody Allen.

Yeah in the world of conservatism it does not get much worse than to be compared to Woody Allen or Alan Alda.

Though to be honest I think either one of those guys could crush Donald Trump in a street brawl.

I mean by the time the guy finally liberated his overly plump arms from the confines of his suit, courtesy of Omar the Tent Maker, he would be way too exhausted to actually make a fist. 

Other than that I think that Noonan has perfectly described Trump's lack of manliness in a way that I am sure will inspire him to wake up at 3:00 AM and slam his pudgy digits onto the keys of his smart phone until the hurting stops.

Maybe he will even call up the Mooch and have him do that thing where he describes what a great athlete Trump is:

“He’s the most competitive person I’ve ever met,” Scaramucci said. “Okay? I’ve seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. I’ve seen him at Madison Square Garden with a topcoat on. He’s standing in the key; he’s hitting foul shots and swishing them, all right? He sinks 30-foot putts.” 

"Say it again Moochy, only slower this time and try to make it sexy."

Sarah Palin gives passive aggressive endorsement to a Peggy Noonan column.

This from the "Queen of Holding Grudges" Facebook page:  

Great article, Peggy, but where the heck were you when I and other commonsense conservatives were sounding the warning bell in '08? You joined the "cool kids" in mocking and condescendingly criticizing -- ultimately demanding that we "sit down and shut up." Better late than never, though, Peggy and your ilk, because, meanwhile back in America... 

Oooh, snippy!

I don't have an account with the Wall Street Journal so I can't see the article she is alluding to, but here is how Politico described it:  

Palin was presumably referring to Noonan's remarks in a series of interviews last fall, during which she accused tea party conservatives of trying to "topple" the GOP and said they needed to stop name-calling and work out their differences with establishment Republicans. 

In Friday's column, titled "Meanwhile, Back in America...", Noonan called President Obama's State of the Union address "a spectacle of delusion and self-congratulation" that failed to address the true concerns of most Americans. According to Noonan, those concerns include the fate of the school voucher program, the IRS's targeting of conservatives and the plight of nuns who "have, quite cruelly, been told they must comply with the ObamaCare mandate that all insurance coverage include contraceptives, sterilization procedures, morning-after pills."

Of course Noonan is a well known Right Wing hack so I do not give her article much credibility, and if Palin kinda sorta endorsed it then it deserves even less as far as I am concerned.

However I DO remember a time when Noonan was right on the money back in 2009:

In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm. 

In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.

Oh yeah, that's the stuff.

And then there was this moment caught on an NBC open mic back in September 2008, right after McCain picked Palin: 

After a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mike ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin. 

"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 bullshit about narratives," she said. "Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it." 

Murphy chimed in: 

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

You know it must have really burned Palin's ass to give Noonan even that bitchy hat tip today, because as we know a Palin never forgives.

Unless of course it was the work of a soon to be kicked to the curb ghostwriter.

Peggy Noonan clarifies her criticism of the Romney campaign.

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:

This week I called it incompetent, but only because I was being polite. I really meant "rolling calamity."

Noonan goes on to give Romney some advice as to how he can fix it, but don't worry he won't take it.

After all he's an arrogant over-privileged prick and she's JUST a woman who doesn't know her place.

P.S. Besides Mitt doesn't need her help, look how easily he solved his lack of support from the Hispanic community.

"What? You heard me on the tape saying that if I was Latino this campaign would be easier. So I made myself Latino. When you're rich you can do anything. You should try being rich too. It's great!"

Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan: "It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one."

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:

The central problem revealed by the tape is Romney’s theory of the 2012 election. It is that a high percentage of the electorate receives government checks and therefore won’t vote for him, another high percentage is supplying the tax revenues and will vote for him, and almost half the people don’t pay taxes and presumably won’t vote for him. 

My goodness, that’s a lot of people who won’t vote for you. You wonder how he gets up in the morning. 

This is not how big leaders talk, it’s how shallow campaign operatives talk: They slice and dice the electorate like that, they see everything as determined by this interest or that. They’re usually young enough and dumb enough that nobody holds it against them, but they don’t know anything. They don’t know much about America. 

We are a big, complicated nation. And we are human beings. We are people. We have souls. We are complex. We are not data points. Many things go into our decisions and our political affiliations. 

You have to be sophisticated to know that. And if you’re operating at the top of national politics, you’re supposed to be sophisticated.

Wow! That is pretty damning!

And that is not all that Noonan had in her quiver:

It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one. It’s not big, it’s not brave, it’s not thoughtfully tackling great issues. It’s always been too small for the moment.

Noonan goes on to almost literally beg the Republican establishment folks to step in and "right this ship," but that is almost like sending sailors onto the Titanic with only the stern still visible above the icy waters and asking them to bail in order to save the ship.

Too little, too late. Now the only thing left to do is make a movie about the disaster.

I wanted to attach a segment from one of the news shows here in order to illustrate just how much trouble Romney finds himself in right now.  There was certainly no lack of appropriate choices, but in my opinion NOBODY was having as much fun tearing Romney into bite size chunks as Lawrence O'Donnell was yesterday, so the choice became a no-brainer. Enjoy!

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That mean librarian lady in Wasilla insults the President and claims the establishment is trying to "crucify" Newt Gingrich. Nothing shocking there.

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Clearly Palin has been mainlining Red Bull all morning and her bouncing seems eerily synchronized with the flames in the fake fireplace behind her.

Her frothy, rabies infected spittle spews forth at the President in the beginning of the interview, as both she and Stossel try to puzzle out why the President's SOTU speech received high marks when THEY certainly did not like it. (After all, don't THEY represent the REAL America?)

But leave it to the Grizzled Mama to get to the bottom of the problem. She states that MOST Americans are not, "so obsessively consumed with what goes on in the political arena. And I think a lot of people in the media forget that. The pollsters forget that. And a lot of pundits, just assume that all of us are like, maybe not you, but a lot of people, that would be your colleagues, in that we have the time, and that we have the energy, and the desire to be so entrenched in what's going on in the political arena today that we would know the difference between liberty and shackled to big government, which Barack Obama represents." 

Yes obviously the reason that people liked the President's speech is because they are too busy, and unaware, to recognize the difference between being free and being enslaved. You know THAT is the kind of spot on analysis that earns Klondike Kardashian the big bucks!

A few minutes later Stossel brings the conversation around to what she thinks about Ron Paul. Palin seems to like Paul's financial message, but of course cannot accept his anti-war stance. But Palin uses this as a springboard to defend her favorite candidate, serial adulterer Newt Gingrich: "Look at Newt Gingrich, what's going on with him? Via the establishment's attacks? They're trying to crucify this man, and rewrite history, and rewrite what it is that he has stood for all these years. So it's not just Ron Paul, I believe it's also Newt Gingrich that the establishment, that the liberal media, certainly that the progressives and Democrats, don't like."

It is at this point that Stossel dares to bring up "She whose name must not be spoken," Peggy Noonan. (She once referred to Palin as a "Nincompoop" and has been a vocal critic since the day McCain found her wandering in the woods of Wasilla.)

Stossel: "Peggy Noonan, who I respect, called Newt the 'little attack muffin,' something like that."