Peggy Noonan’s piece in the WSJ is funny beyond words — especially for a non-partisan like Polimom.
She started off with the Clintons:
There are many serious and thoughtful liberals and Democrats who support Mr. Obama and John Edwards, and who are seeing Mr. Clinton in a new way and saying so. Here is William Greider in The Nation, the venerable left-liberal magazine. The Clintons are “high minded” on the surface but “smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard at the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four years.”
That, again, is from one of the premier liberal journals in the United States. It is exactly what conservatives have been saying for a decade. This may mark a certain coming together of the thoughtful on both sides. The Clintons, uniters at last.
“Hahahahaha!“, laugh the right of center folks. “We’ve known this for years! Welcome to the party!”
But Noonan had some choice words about the GOP, too:
On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, “I’m here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party. It’s going to change it forever, be the end of it!”
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
Were there other causes? Yes, of course. But there was an immediate and essential cause.
“Hahahahaha!” chortle the left of center folks. “We’ve known this for years! Welcome to the party!”
*snort*
Welcome to earth, everybody. Remember to roll when you hit the ground.
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Added: This is what “thump” sounds like.
I think I hear a chuckle here.
Here, too.