Tag Archives: Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noodnik Watch (pat. pending)

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column this week takes Barack Obama to task for “[spending] his first year losing the center, which elected him, and his second losing his base, which is supposed to provide his troops.” Nut graf, regarding … Continue reading →

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Peggy Noodnik Strikes Again

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From Peggy Noonan’s current Wall Street Journal column about Ronald Reagan’s 1980 co-opting of the John Birch Society (“Well, he said pleasantly, they said they support me, I didn’t say I support them”): He cared about reality, about the facts … Continue reading →

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U.S. Politics = Bizarro World

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Everything you need to know about the state of political discourse nowadays is contained in these two opinion pieces about Barack Obama’s Excellent Healthcare Summit: Piece #1: Joe Klein’s post on Time’s Swampland blog: Shame on me. I was elsewhere … Continue reading →

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Peggy Noonan Has Jumped the Shark

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

I know what many of you splendid readers are thinking: Hey, Campaign Outsider! Where you been the past few years – a Pacific island? Peggy Noonan jumped the shark like the Jets in “West Side Story” years ago. Well, if … Continue reading →

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Ad o’ the Day™

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Peggy Noonan’s latest Wall  Street Journal column (headline: “The Reagans and the Kennedys”) recalls Ronald Reagan’s speech at a 1985 fundraiser for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, “which at the time was relatively new and the only presidential library … Continue reading →

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Barack Caramba!

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

The jury is no  longer out on Team Obama. Which means the verdict is in: So sure-handed at campaigning, so ham-handed at governing. As Peggy Noonan would say: Paging Jimmy Carter. Paging former Pres. Jimmy Carter. Exhibits A and B … Continue reading →

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High Noonan

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider had a little fling with Peggy Noonan – as a reader, as a reader – during the 2008 presidential campaign.  Noonan was at the top of her game in her Wall Street Journal column … Continue reading →

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