Apparently, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan doesn’t have a very high opinion of the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate, but who can really blame her?
After all, unless you’re a rabid conservative, there’s not really much to like about Palin. At any rate, here’s the video of Peggy Noonan dissing the choice of Sarah Palin:
And here’s a transcript:
Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she’s the right woman for the job Up next, one man who’s already convinced and he’ll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
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Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys — this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work. And —
Noonan: It’s over.
Murphy: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
Todd: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
Noonan: Saw Kay this morning.
Todd: Yeah, she’s never looked comfortable about this —
Murphy: They’re all bummed out.
Todd: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
Noonan: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bullshit about narratives —
Todd: Yeah they went to a narrative.
Murphy: I totally agree.
Noonan: 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: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
Todd: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
Murphy: Yeah.
Zach, Zach, Zach again only partly true. Is this how you do all of your blogging?
This is what Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, wrote in her Wall Street Journal column after she, Republican political consultant Mike Murphy and NBC-TV’s political analyst Chuck Todd were caught in what they thought was an off-air moment trashing the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate.
In the column, Noonan apologizes for using a “barnyard epithet” — it rhymes with bullspit — to characterize the choice of Palin.
And she says that when she was heard to tell Todd and Muphy, “It’s over,” she wasn’t referring to McCain’s candidacy. Noonan says the version of their conversation that went out over the Internet was “truncated” and leaves that erroneous impression.
“McCain may well win,” she writes in the apology column. “I do not think the campaign is over, I do not think this is settled, and did not suggest, back to the Todd-Murphy conversation, that ‘It’s over.’ ”
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/peggy-noonans-defenseapology-f.html
Wow Steve, what a revelation.
I know Noonan issued a statement trying to explain away what she said, but that’s to be expected, considering how damaging her statements were.
The fact that you believe her after the fact apology more than her “in the moment” statement says a lot, especially considering if you listen to the audio it’s plainly obvious what the three were talking about.
As for my blogging, you’re hardly one to critique.