78 Comments

• maloney | Nov 18, 2010, 07:53 PM EST

  Seano..I assume your last post was to me. I didn't take your prior post personally. I did understand exactly what you meant, agreeing with some of what you said. If your disappointed at the personal attacks of two others, your in for a hell of a lot of disappoinment. Subtle politically correct barbs, jabs & insults are the cowards tools. If I'm on the money, advise & I will explain in more detail. I'm sure you won't agree but I think you'll find it entertaining.

• seanomelbourne | Nov 18, 2010, 05:36 PM EST

  As a grandfather who sat down in the streets protesting the Vietnam war as immoral and unnecessary (as history has proved). I do not blame you (you were probably drafted)and I respect any serviceman from any nation who fought for his country. Your misreading of my blog is symptomatic of your inability to comprehend a changing world. I am disappointed in your nasty personal attack. Your narrow minded spite is a testament to your ignorance.

• maloney | Nov 18, 2010, 01:19 PM EST

  hancock..the 9:46 wasn't me. The post didn't have a name. Brave Vietnam veteran, afraid to have a name.

• maloney | Nov 18, 2010, 01:09 PM EST

  Seano..Our last election proves Americans will impute the politicians who don't follow the will of the people. I suppose you think the politicians of Ireland, England & Rooland are saints. The first world has copied & depended on America for 80 years, while hating us because we were free & better. You poll parrot the second half of my last post, wanting us to return to isolationism. We will, in the future, let the first world fend for it's self, both financially & militarily. The first world will be begging & groveling, on bended knees, for what we have & can do that it can't. bigdud..first you complain you weren't given facts but when you were, you deny them as I had predicted. I do feel sorry for you having been born a crack baby. Were your parents ever punished for having dropped you on your head repeatedly as an infant? Unfortunately, your just a waist of good oxygen. To the man with no name, aka, bigdud'sdaddy, you're a RINO. The Florida sun has fried your brain. You never have & never will be half the man Hancock is. You don't deserve the sweat off of Hancock's jewels if you were dying of thirst. When I was in Nam, we had a cook that sounded just like you, he pissed himself ever time the wind blew. Bush was in the military, not like your heroe obama, the Czar of drugs & a traitor.

• maloney | Nov 18, 2010, 09:46 AM EST

  hancock....I am a Republican grandfather from Florida, and seano is correct. Watching Fox has deadened your brain. Stop listening to Rush et al and turn off the TV. Everyone who doesn't agree with you is not your enemy but you sure piss some people off when you wear your ignorance like a damned badge for the world to see. I would like to not be called names but in all the years I've been talking to people like you, that what you have been trained to do. The people you listen to know that your arguments are weak and cannot hold up under scrutiny. So they tell you that people who disagree with you are commies or anti-American or whatever. Son, I fought in the jungles and the rice paddies of Vietnam. More than Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck or the neocons did. I talk to young veterans who have served 3 years in Iraq because of a man who would rather drink Jim Beam and snort cocaine than defend the freedoms he tells people he brought to the Middle East. He sent America's youth to die in the desert when he was too cowardly to serve himself. You should pick your heroes better.

• seanomelbourne | Nov 18, 2010, 12:58 AM EST

  Hancock! It's not how dumb you are.It's how dumb downed you are.And the rest of the world is dumbfounded

• hancock | Nov 17, 2010, 10:55 PM EST

  I love these eegits from Ireland and Australia, telling us how dumb we are. If things are so great there why are you so obsessed with us dumb Yanks and our fox news? Get a life you first world runner ups.

• BigDaddy | Nov 17, 2010, 07:58 PM EST

  baloney...you are either being paid to lie about Reagan or you are very, very stupid. Cutting taxes raised revenues? Reagan increased deficits as no other before him. Are you familiar with the Cheney quote...Reagan proved deficits don't matter... None of what you say is true. Family income rose 12% under Reagan....BS. The average American family income has risen only $300 over the last 30 years while it rose $13,000 in the 30 years prior.The Reagan administration was the beginning of the end for freedom in America and if you don't live in America and watch Fox News, how is it you are so dumb? Nice touch at the end, baloney. "If you don't believe my lies, you are a commie"...I never met anyone who didn't watch Fox who was as dumb as you appear to be, sir.

• seanomelbourne | Nov 17, 2010, 05:23 PM EST

  Maloney your insular opinion on the rest of the world is typical of you yanks, your politicians lie to you on a daily basis informing you that you have the best of everything whilst the rest of the first world laugh at you. If you Americans knew how good we have it in Australia we couldn't handle the refugee problem. As for your foreign policy it's centered around American greed and not what is good for the rest of the world.The world would be a better place if you rediscovered your isolationist past. Go home the world is sick of your amateurish international forays making life harder for the rest of us.

• maloney | Nov 16, 2010, 07:18 PM EST

  Seano..I didn't say SDI, star wars happened. Just the talk of it did the trick. Remember, I lived here at the time. The poor got poorer is bunkum, everybody was much better off than they were under Carter. Your other observations are your long distance opinion & some didn't break my heart. His good deeds way out weighed his shortcomings. I noticed you didn't address all the things I said so you too agree he did do several thing right. GOP bull beats socialist rooshit every time. It's not America's job to babysit the world. The rest of you need to take care of your damn selves. Ever since we kicked the crap out of England the rest of the world wants us to take care of them including fighting their wars. The whole while badmouthing us & saying how bad we are. Your hands always out for more. Piss on Africa & the rest. At some point you have to stand on your own two feet. Buck up. It's not our fault we're better than the rest of the world. Better looking too.

• seanomelbourne | Nov 16, 2010, 06:05 PM EST

  Star wars!! another dream or another movie which was it, SDI like star wars never happened. He refused to use his powers to have Mandela released from prison.He supported the South African apartheid regime.HE was a self confessed racist. He ratted on his mates to Joe McCarthy when he was "supposedly a union activist".He made the rich richer and the poor poorer.Your reading to much GOP bullshit Maloney.

• maloney | Nov 16, 2010, 12:47 PM EST

  seano & bigdud...President Reagan was one of the greatest Presidents. Hostages were freed just by him being elected. He helped put an end to the Soviet Union by befriending Gorbachev & convinced Gorby to tear down the wall. He cut taxes, doubling revenue. He defeated Carter & Jerry Brown, both losers. He restored patriotism & optimism in America. He was responsible for rebuilding the military & SDI (star wars) which convinced the soviets they couldn't compete with America. He turned America, from progressivism, to a return of traditional values. He rebuilt the Repub. party. His economic policies stimulated 17 to 20 million new jobs. Family income rose 12% under Reagan. Inflation rose to 13% under Carter, it decreased to less than 4.4% under Reagan. I could go on but you will say these are all lies just like any good commie will do.

• hancock | Nov 15, 2010, 11:57 PM EST

  You said he was Irish, and he was agreat American president.

• seanomelbourne | Nov 15, 2010, 07:56 PM EST

  I could have sworn the Gippa had a limp. We should be thankful Reagan never played a presidential roll.

• BigDaddy | Nov 15, 2010, 07:08 PM EST

  maloney...your logic is flawed at the very least. Reagan was a bad actor who had Alzheimers. Well, that's what he claimed when he had to testify. "I forget; it's like I wasn't even president"..so much for your good/great president. He once told Elie Weisel that he helped free the death camps. So, he is either a liar, an addled old fool, or he saw it in a movie and thought he did it. Great is laughable. Good, maybe but only because so many were fooled by his lies. Oddly, you never address my charges but you don't mind claiming that if I don't think the way you think, there must be something wrong with me. I have facts, you have opinions and, yet, I'm wrong. You must be American. Clueless, fact less but certain you are correct in your beliefs. American exceptionalism is God's will, right?

• maloney | Nov 15, 2010, 06:23 PM EST

  Anyone who says Reagan wasn't at least a good President is either a fool or a liar. If Reagan was so bad, what do you think of jimmy peanuts carter?

• BigDaddy | Nov 15, 2010, 05:07 PM EST

  hancock...Kerry ISN'T Irish and Reagan was a traitor who allowed Americans to be held hostage to advance his political ambitions, a man who cut and ran from Lebanon after getting several hundred Marines killed and a criminal who violated international law by supporting terrorists who were raping & killing the population of another nation. But maybe we just have different definitions of the word great, eh?

• hancock | Nov 15, 2010, 10:46 AM EST

  John Kerry isn't Irish. Reagan, gteat president.

• BigDaddy | Nov 15, 2010, 08:48 AM EST

  Mr. O'Dowd...Noonan's claims are at least naive. Reagan was head of the SAG and he was also an informer for the FBI at the same time. He was a racist who engaged in treason in 1980 to win an election. Irish or not, he is to be honored only by the ignorant and ideological Republicans. (Pardon my redundancy.) He called rapists and murderers the moral equivalent of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison et al...Either Reagan was a dope or he thought the people he was speaking to were dopes. As far as a donnybrook is concerned, the Republican tactic for over 20 years has been to slander better people in order to get Republicans elected. Take the Irishman John Kerry. A wounded and decorated war hero, he was slandered until Americans believed a drug addled, alcoholic dimwit was a better choice. Even then, the Republicans had to steal the election in Ohio to have Bush inserted again. If Noonan interferes with the neocon plans for America, her downfall will be quick.

• BigDaddy | Nov 14, 2010, 05:53 PM EST

  maloney...the childish name calling is part of the neocon approach to shaping policy in America. I assume you are American. If not, why else would you be so concerned about what goes on here, eh? If you are American, how much do you get paid to do this? hancock...If Dennis doesn't sound rational to you, he's probably saying things that make sense to sensible people.

• SouthBendNative | Nov 14, 2010, 08:44 AM EST

  Seanomelbourne..Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall". I am not sure why a leftist publication like Irish Central focuses so much on a pol that they think has no chance to win. You'd think that IC would love to see Palin run for the presidency as it should, by IC logic ensure the election of another nuanced, mainstream progressive. The fact that they smear Palin at every opportunity shows that the truth is that they fear that she might actually win. As a conservative member of the GOP, I laugh at such paranoia.

• maloney | Nov 14, 2010, 07:29 AM EST

  I knew something was missing, the tarnished penny returns. seano, The 13 colonies, after booting out the british trash, were an excellent example of which you speak. Man, being the greedy, power hungry, European mentality fools they are, have managed to screw it up quite nicely. We are in the process of taking it back to the basics. Keep watching. You'll be able to embrace your obama soon. He'll be looking to get the hell out of here in the not to distant future. By the way, that's, looks after themselves & each other. How about all those happy people in all of those successful socialist nations?

• seanomelbourne | Nov 13, 2010, 07:03 PM EST

  By the way DennisQ Reagan did not say "tear down the wall" from memory I believe he said "Mr.Gorbachev tear down the wall"

• seanomelbourne | Nov 13, 2010, 07:00 PM EST

  Maloney is living in a Walter Mitty Tea party world, where everybody looks after themselves. Can Maloney point to any libertarian successful nation.

• hancock | Nov 12, 2010, 07:52 PM EST

  Dennis is the other know it all lefty lunatic on this site. I suspect you are one in the same. You sound about as rational as he does.

• maloney | Nov 12, 2010, 05:39 PM EST

  hancock...that 5:09 post wasn't me. bigdud or IC is losing it. Probably both. My mistake, bigdud never had it.

• maloney | Nov 12, 2010, 05:10 PM EST

  bigdud..2008 dems held all 3 branches of power. Voter fraud charged & found guilty, all dems thank you. Young voter turnout only 20% in 2010, will be no more or less in 2012 as jobs continue to disappear. More illegals will scamper back south = less illegal dem votes. I could go on but you get the POINT. Oops, didn't mean to make fun of the shape of your head.

• maloney | Nov 12, 2010, 05:09 PM EST

  When did I defend anything?...hancock, as I said before, your ostensible need to flaunt your ignorance is unseemly. Is Dennis your imaginary adversary or just someone else who has pointed out how dimwitted you are?

• hancock | Nov 12, 2010, 04:19 PM EST

  When did I defend anything? Get help Dennis.

• BigDaddy | Nov 12, 2010, 03:53 PM EST

  hancock...It is reassuring to know that you will validate every post I make with your inane patter. I say defenders of neocon ideology are ignorant and you prove my point. Thank you!

• hancock | Nov 12, 2010, 02:07 PM EST

  Big Dennis get to the free clinic and get yout scripts.

• BigDaddy | Nov 12, 2010, 11:54 AM EST

  You saw how many voted for the Republicans this past election. It will be worse in 2012... Republican voting was down this e4lection year. The reason they won is becau8se Democratic voting was down 60%. Don't take my word for it, though; I'm not maloney or Glenn Beck, do you own research. No amount of cheating will be able to overcome the amount of people against obama in 2012...Hahaha If not for the corporate Republican Congress and Supreme Court, Bush would never have been appointed in 200/2004. The cheating in Florida and Ohio were on a monumental scale. Whatever Americans see/hear on TV and radio is usually a lie or slanted toward maintaining the status quo of the social elite. Socialism = handouts...So the Wall Street bankers are socialists as well as the oil industry. The people will fix it not the govt..The people ARE the govt. or at least they were until a conservative court allowed industry to usurp the republic in favor or corporate interests. Finally...Ronald Reagan was a bad actor, a war criminal and a mental patient. He took great pride in pushing for an illegal war in Central America and then acted like a addled old man when he was under oath. Have a good day....BD

• maloney | Nov 12, 2010, 11:06 AM EST

  maireadofrooland.. What the hell is it with you goober socialists that you keep trying to put words in peoples mouths? "Fear of non Americans commenting". Where did you see this? In your dreams? I love the posts of non Americans, can't always say the same for Americans who act like their socialist overseas counterparts, they should know better, but there's no fixing stupid. Look back over my history on IC & you will find what I don't like is people who tell others to shut up or telling someone not to post. You don't understand how conservatives, some are tea party members, think. Most do NOT want govt. to "fix up all the trouble". Most conservatives think the people will take care of themselves. The people will fix it not the govt. Work is how it should be handled, not handouts. Socialism = handouts. The govt. should worry about corruption, not much more. Keep watching America, 2010 was the start. 2012 will be a much larger statement. People like dennis want to save the world & whales etc. but with other peoples money, never their own.

• hancock | Nov 12, 2010, 10:25 AM EST

  Bring on 2012.

• DennisQ | Nov 12, 2010, 01:28 AM EST

  The Tea Party people don't call themselves teabaggers, maireadinmelb, and a quick glance a Google will tell you why. For some reason, Barney Frank's name comes up in the first three hits - it must be some kind of joke.
  
  The Tea Party folks are the Over the Rainbow people. They know things would be better if only Americans were more sincere believers in American exceptionalism. There's going to be a happy ending to this, they believe.
  
  You may quibble that grown-ups should not act like credulous children. But they're not living in the real world - they're off to see the Wizard.
  
  I don't want to see them cry. However . . . from time to time I ask for specifics of how they're going to achieve their stated goals. They're going to lower taxes, bring down the deficit, and not cut any popular programs, and certainly not cut the Pentagon budget.
  
  Good-looking Ronald Reagan is to blame for the illusion that there will be a happy ending because we deserve one. He stood up in Berlin and commanded, Tear down this wall, and lo! It happened. Republicans have been looking to repeat that magic ever since. They absolutely refuse to believe in coincidence.
  
  Someday I'll wish upon a star
  And wake up where the clouds are far
  Behind me.
  Where troubles melt like lemon drops
  Away above the chimney tops
  That's where you'll find me.
  

• maireadinmelb | Nov 11, 2010, 06:51 PM EST

  Why the fear of non Americans commenting Maloney? This site is Irish Central. It is for those with an interest in Ireland not just Americans with link to Ireland. And by the way can anyone explain to me this teabagger theory that they can reduce the size and power of the federal government, but they still expect that same federal government to fix up all the trouble their in? It just does not make sense!!

• seanomelbourne | Nov 11, 2010, 06:20 PM EST

  DennisQ no offense taken but less of the dark stuff and more Irish whiskey

• seanomelbourne | Nov 11, 2010, 06:18 PM EST

  Maloney! you live in hope of a neo-fascist libertarian society time is not on your side ask your old fascist mates Hitler/Mussolini/Salazar and Franco. Your sowing against the tide.

• DennisQ | Nov 11, 2010, 02:16 PM EST

  I should have known that maloney would feel left out. Now I feel bad.
  
  I don't think I was disrespectful to Pittsburghkid by asking him to enlarge on the topics he discussed. That's actually a friendly gesture!

• maloney | Nov 11, 2010, 01:54 PM EST

  The pain must be excruciating after the humiliating defeat suffered by the liberals & socialists. To sink to the level of mocking a persons post, rewriting it in their PTSD minds, is sad indeed. Obviously, counceling is needed by poor dennisq, along with all the democrats who lost to their betters this month. Pittsburghkid submits a factual post & the feebal mind of dennis somehow changes the entire meaning. Even the poor socialists who aren't citizens of or live in America seem to have been crushed by the rejection of socialism in America. Don't worry seano, in another 100 years or so the socialists may have another opportunity to be embarrassed again.

• DennisQ | Nov 11, 2010, 04:01 AM EST

  I'm glad that seanomelbourne isn't offended that my toast to the American Spirit didn't include a nod in the direction of the Australians as well. I've admired the Anzacs for years; in fact I've kept a picture of Suvla Bay on my desktop to remember how bravely they fought at Gallipoli.
  
  So cheers for the Aussies! We'll raise a glass of dark ale and join in heart-felt salute. Hip hip hooray!

• seanomelbourne | Nov 11, 2010, 01:29 AM EST

  Maloney seems to have a maudlin love affair with Palin. watch the teabaggers as they are sidelined by the GOP.Palin failed in getting her cubs elected in the senate. Here's looking to 2012.

• DennisQ | Nov 11, 2010, 12:23 AM EST

  This is a good opportunity for you to lay out the specifics of what the Tea Party are going to do to revive the Spirit of America, Pittsburghkid. Are you sure that that's not just an empty slogan?
  
  You sound like you're blaming Obama for everything that's gone wrong for the past ten years. Perhaps you will explain the role that Political Correctness has played in undermining the greatness of America. If you think that cutting taxes is the answer, which programs will you stop spending money on? And do you propose to do anything about the deficit except ignore it?
  
  Go ahead, have at it. America needs new ideas, but the country does not need more empty rhetoric. If you're long on generalities and short on specifics, you fit right in among people who essentially have no ideas.
  
  I'm all for the Spirit of America, too. Let's raise our glasses high. Hip, hip, hooray!

• Pittsburghkid | Nov 10, 2010, 11:17 PM EST

  Palin gets hell from the Democrats, and the Republicans, she must be doing something right. Republicans and Democrats share the blame for the sad state of America. Palin and the Tea Party want to revive the Spirit of America, which has been distroyed by both political parties. Political Correctness has to go. Palin is not afraid to step on toes. Palin campaigned against 20 Democrats, and 18 were unseated, that is political muscle. Noonan was a speach writer for GHW Bush. She wrote the line "read my lips no new taxes" Bush raised taxes, and lost his bid for a second term. NOTE; The "HW" in GHW Bush's name is for Herbert Walker. Herbert Walker was GHW Bush's grandfather. Herbert Walker was Irish Catholic multi millionare at the beginning of the last century. You can see the Irish is G.w. Bush's face. It is an interesting story, because Herbert Walker was displeased that his daughter married a protestant.

• DennisQ | Nov 10, 2010, 07:35 PM EST

  Sarah Palin hasn't been guilty of big time corruption only because she's never been big time. There are a number of examples of her small time corruption. What became known as "Troopergate" shows a mean streak and a fondness for vengeance. Then-Governor Palin used her office to punish Walt Monegan, Public Safety Commissioner, for refusing to fire her former brother-in-law as part of some family dispute.
  
  Then there was Alaska's famous "Bridge to Nowhere" that Palin supported - until its $600 million price tag became an embarrassment to the McCain campaign. Oops! Palin then claimed she'd opposed it all along.
  
  Palin petty corruption isn't virtuous. Given small opportunities to be backstabbing, mendacious or simply vengeful, she took them. Given larger opportunities, she'd have taken them as well.

• maloney | Nov 09, 2010, 05:37 PM EST

  Noonan's a fool. With all the corruption, posing, greed, pretending to be something your not & hidden agenda's infesting Washington, an honest, true heart would be a refreshing change of pace. For all her lack of experience & naivete, Palin would at least care about the country & would not yet be influenced by corruption. No hidden agendas & has a love of the American way of life & her people. She isn't afraid of hard work which is impossible to find in Washington today. Understands family & what it means to serve in the military. I'd be willing to give her a chance. I can think of no other repub of dem who hasn't at least been exposed to corruption if not involved. If you know of a better person, let me know & I will get behind them.

• seanomelbourne | Nov 09, 2010, 05:22 PM EST

  Reagan as a B grade actor who went through his presidency thinking he really was "the gippa" and Palin cannot make up her mind if she's a pit bull or a mama grizzly Reagan was in the early throes of Alzheimer's what is Palins problem?

• hancock | Nov 09, 2010, 11:43 AM EST

  Another county heard from, how are things in Mayo these days?

• FatherVol | Nov 09, 2010, 07:43 AM EST

  @ odonnell, didn't your glorious president obama quit the senat, leaving a term unfinished? Grow up!

• mayoman | Nov 09, 2010, 07:26 AM EST

  Palin is on record for often praising Reagan as a "great President", so her recent comments about him being an actor should be read as a defense of herself rather than a criticism of Reagan. Why Ms. Noonan posesses such a shallow and delusionary view of Reagan, and feels the need to defend him against the smallest of critiques, is beyond me. I will say this though; as bad a President as Reagan was, (and he was a stinker despite what all the praise-gushing reactionaries may think), I'm quite sure that Palin would be much worst.

• odonnell521 | Nov 09, 2010, 06:25 AM EST

  If Obama is a one-termer, Palin has a history of a being only a part-termer. Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind Republicans. You invented and embraced the tea party, now you'll have live with its presidential choice.

• vincem13 | Nov 09, 2010, 02:19 AM EST

  There seems to be a misconception about what kind of person we need as president. Not a leader, as such, because he or she can't lead where congress or the supreme court say we can't go. Not a lawyer, necessarily, because all the President does is carry out the laws enacted by congress and fulfill duties as set forth in the constitution. We do need someone who can represent us to other heads of state and can communicate to the rest of us what we need to know and how we can help prosper the USA. Despite all the negative press by the lame-street media and the GOP Good-Old-Boy club, Sarah Palin can do all of that- very well. Moreover, she has an advantage that no other candidate for president has been able to match since Reagan. She has raised a family as a working parent. Sarah knows the problems of everyday Americans because- news flash- she is one of us. She isn't part of the ruling elite, and that scares the heck out of them. We have elected our share of not-the-sharpest-crayon-in-the-box presidents. I have read the qualifications in the Constitution. An Einstein level IQ isn't one of them. I would gladly vote for Sarah Palin in 2012- especially if the alternative is the reelection of "Teleprompter Man".

• hancock | Nov 09, 2010, 12:57 AM EST

  Obama is a clueless one term idiot.

• warrenpoint00 | Nov 08, 2010, 11:29 PM EST

  Herr Sarah....hell let her and the tea baggers run, the American people know better not to promote a nominee who espouses nazi sentiments thru her right wing agenda thus producing extremists like Tim Mc Veigh the bomber of Oklahoma City, the various factions involved in the bombings and murder at nation wide abortion clinic,TED the mad mail bomber of federal institutes.... and now the speaker of the house in that all red tea bag state of Ohio who with his fellow legislator friends dress up in their nazi SS uniforms every Sunday morning...going to do some bible thumping of I presume.God save and bless the United States of America from these extremists.. I do believe that they are something of a similar faction that the English expelled from their land in the 17th century and arrived in the new world where unsucessfully no doubt the Native Americans could not control them and their extremist ways either.

• galway2001 | Nov 08, 2010, 10:22 PM EST

  i hope sarah palin runs for president i dont know what your problem is .i love her way her thinking

• Aloygirl | Nov 08, 2010, 08:25 PM EST

  'He was a great man and you are a nincompoop' So true!Idiot comes to mind every time I hear her speak.As for the comment those who voted for Reagan will vote for Palin?!? I voted for Reagan &if Palin were the only candidate to vote for I would stay HOME!A 9/11 attack would never have occured w/ Reagan in office.He was a great president. Ms.Moron wantabee will never be a great anything.& yes she ruined everything for McCain which was his own fault.

• killowen | Nov 08, 2010, 06:52 PM EST

  Calling Palin a "nincompoop" is a typical Noonan comment - one which I'm in harmony with. Imagine such a character deciding our fate. Bad enough that those turkeys that we sheep pull levers for, time after time - forgetting they be our master's choices. It's all about those mavens who are positioned to pull the wool over our eyes. Brilliantly done - where the 800 pound gorilla that bears the lion's share of why we're hated so - sits about in every setting but is never confronted to explain - the smell of fear oozes from all of our screwable brethern. Observe those tele talk shows and if one's aware a puke feeling envelops a body.

• maloney | Nov 08, 2010, 06:51 PM EST

  slainte,,,then your for nobody. Seano, you better hope Sarah isn't elected. The first thing she'll do is blow up Aussieland.

• slainte39 | Nov 08, 2010, 05:57 PM EST

  What does Obama have to do with Peggy Noonan's opinion of Sarah Palin? I'm no Obama fan, but it seems like he gets blamed for everything, by the tea party, even if he has nothing to do with it. I'm for the RR&D party (reasonable republicans and democrats).

• patrickesq | Nov 08, 2010, 05:53 PM EST

  As lang as Sarah remains the media darling of Fox News she will cntinue to be a force the Republican Party will have to reckon with. The Democrats hope she has staying power to help OBama's reelection !

• seanomelbourne | Nov 08, 2010, 05:35 PM EST

  Palin for president!! I hope so, dems would gain another 4 years. Mama grizzly's cubs were rejected at the ballot box(senate)keep on giving mama.

• antoman | Nov 08, 2010, 05:33 PM EST

  I see Ronald Reagan getting mentioned in the comments a few times.Far as I know Ronald Reagan could'nt cut a fart without the approval of his stargazer Joan Quigley.As for Sarah Palin(soccer mom) becoming President of America,,you gotta be kidding me,..right?European politicians will be rolling in the aisle's with laughter.I won't be laughing,I'll be hysterical,maybe even wear my underpants on my head and shout the sky is falling,the sky is falling. :)

• maloney | Nov 08, 2010, 05:13 PM EST

  It's amazing how the liberal nitwits are now experts on who will win the 2012 elections & what the Republican party should or will do. You sure had it wrong for 2010. The cat is out of the bag, obama is a socialist & the country is angry. You saw how many voted for the Republicans this past election. It will be worse in 2012. No amount of cheating will be able to overcome the amount of people against obama in 2012. Everyone will be surprised at who runs against obama. Not that it matters but Palin would come closer to governing like Reagan than the majority of Repubs in office today. Palin won't run but she will be very influential. Obama will continue to be the great divider. He can't help himself.

• DennisQ | Nov 08, 2010, 03:37 PM EST

  Condoleezza Rice is a fraud. She claims an earned Ph.D. from the University of Denver, but she didn't write her dissertaion; colleagues did it for her. Another book attributed to so-called "Doctor" Rice was actually written by Philip Zelikow.
  
  Academics are supposed to do a lot of writing; it's called "publish or perish." But Rice's entire output has been the two books mentioned. She has recently published a memoir of her childhood. At least she knows something about that!
  
  Rice was the National Security Advisor who completely missed warnings about the impending attack on September 11th. Rice was the Secretary of State who supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq, telling us that Saddam had nuclear weapons. Compare Rice to legitimate scholars like Henry Kissinger who've held similar offices. For all the controversy around him, Kissinger at least renders an account of himself. Rice stays out of sight - and that's probably a good thing.

• KathleenBerrio | Nov 08, 2010, 02:30 PM EST

  The Republican party's endorsement of Sarah Palin will ensure 4 more years of Obama, and hopefully they are aware of that. John McCain might have been president if he picked a smarter woman than Palin. Condoleeza Rice comes to mind. She is perhaps the smartest woman in the US.

• hollabackgurl | Nov 08, 2010, 02:29 PM EST

  Obama will be re-elected. And if the GOP continue their obstructionist, no-compromise-ever, party of No Nay Never ways Obama will be re-elected in a landslide.

• glorybe1929 | Nov 08, 2010, 01:37 PM EST

  I think, haughty Peggy Noonan, should take on a new evil(according to her) to bash. Maybe Peggy thinks Peggy Noonan is the one who should be running for president. She's so smart you know. The real evil she should take on, is the one that Oprah isn't affraid to take on, pedophilia ... I say look at the pedophilia evil that has been scantioned by the Hierarchy in the Roman Catholic Church(that possibly she belongs to) and do something about that. That would really be gift to God Almighty, His people and most especially to the children, the handicapped and the marginalized adults that have been sexually abused by these so called holy priests, nuns and brothers. They say they represent God Almighty in the confessional and where ever they go, so they are truly the worst of the worst in this evil place. Peggy, I dare you to take on these sickos. That would be a gift not only to God but to the whole world that has been raped by the RCC.

• murphy66 | Nov 08, 2010, 01:29 PM EST

  The people who voted for Reagan will vote for Palin. And look at how successful he was.

• Nicomax | Nov 08, 2010, 01:05 PM EST

  The Republican ticket in 2012 will be Romney/Bachmann. Michelle will convince the party insiders she is less polarizing than Sarah, but still able to bring along a majority of the Tea Party folks. It will be a royal battle of mama bears, with the Minnesota kind winning out.

• Given4AZ | Nov 08, 2010, 11:38 AM EST

  I always laugh when I hear of the indignation of the likes of Peggy Noonan and David Brooks, the RINO lapdogs of the left. Peggy Noonan was A speech writer for Ronald Reagan, not THE speech writer, and certainly not the keeper of his legacy. Countless are the stories of how Reagan's best speeches were the ones that he wrote himself after rejecting those written by his speech writers. How is it that Sarah Palin insulted Ronald Reagan's legacy by mentioning something that the Liberals tried desperately to use to diminish him, to no avail. Palin made the point that they were unsuccessful because that is not how Reagan was defined, regardlessof how hard the Liberals t

• Yerffac | Nov 08, 2010, 11:05 AM EST

  Who is going to vote for Palin for President? The blacks? the Hispanics? The Democrats? The independents? The academics? Anyone with half a brain? That leaves very few people. Bring it on, you old bunch of (tea) bags. We all know you are backed by big business. Obama will be reelected. Six more years!!!!

• GeorgeDillon | Nov 08, 2010, 10:58 AM EST

  Is Noonan trying to rewrite Hollywood history? Ronald Reagan DID star with a chimp in a movie called Bedtime with Bonzo. Why deny it, Noonan? And thanks to Watchman for citing Noonan's rather cloying description of Bush--" if there's a fire on the block, he'll run out and help". I'm sure the 100000 Iraqis that were killed in the invasion of Iraq would agree that Bush is a reasonable common sense guy! It's garbage, Noonan, we're sick of the Country Club Republican crowd. And by the way, why is Irishcentral obsessed with claiming people as "Irish American"? What Irish American organizations is Noonan a member of, what steps has she taken to study or promote Irish language or heritage etc. etc? By IrishCentral's inane definition, Reagan himself was a great irish American also, even tho he had no interest in his ethnic heritage.

• 1IrishMedic | Nov 08, 2010, 10:43 AM EST

  I supprised that Peggy Noonan would waste her time to comment on remarks by such an ignoramus as Sarah Palin. Palin may be raising hell with the Republicans and that's a good thing. But insulting presidents is another.

• Watchman | Nov 08, 2010, 10:40 AM EST

  I couldn't give a stuff about Peggy Noonan as an Irish-American, an accident of birth which has no relevance to anything. But as source of personal insights, she is certainly far from infallible. This is what she said about George W Bush in 2004: "Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man. He's normal. He thinks in a sort of common-sense way. He speaks the language of business and sports and politics. You know him. He's not exotic. But if there's a fire on the block, he'll run out and help. He'll help direct the rig to the right house and count the kids coming out and say, 'Where's Sally?'" Tell that to the people of New Orleans. Heck of a job, Peggy!

• thebloodysword | Nov 08, 2010, 08:57 AM EST

  obama isn't clueless, he's simply a political puppet. despite all their promises & rhetoric-filled speeches, modern presidents are slaves to the leaders of industry, because industry controls the economy, most people base their vote on the state of the economy. they have little choice but do what they are told.

• hancock | Nov 08, 2010, 07:35 AM EST

  Obama is a clueless, arrogant idiot.

• DennisQ | Nov 08, 2010, 01:23 AM EST

  I am so looking forward to watching the Republicans blame each other for the party's failure to deliver on promises made in the '10 election. They will not interfere with Obama's alleged "agenda" because Obama doesn't really have one. The president is reaching out his hand in a goodwill gesture in anticipation of working together for America's benefit.
  
  Regardless of who the Republicans nominate, that person will need a track record of accomplishment. It won't be enough to invent scary stories of what will happen if Obama gets re-elected. That means that the Republicans have nothing to gain by refusing to work with Obama than they have by repeating the obstructionism of the first two years of his presidency. And this time around, Democrats won't sit back and allow it to happen the way they did. We're going to hear that term obstructionism used over and over again.
  
  There will not be a President Gingrich or a President Romney or God forbid, a President Huckabee. These old retreads won't get the support of the energetic elements within the Republican Party. But Noonan is correct that there won't be a President Palin either. If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as useless and unpopular as he was this election cycle, could still manage to defeat the Tea Party candidate, President Obama should easily defeat Sarah Palin.
  
  Bring it on! I'm looking forward to it.

• sodakhic | Nov 07, 2010, 10:37 PM EST

  Hey Rove and Noonan put your candidates where your mouths are. It's a battle of ideas, that's what the primaries are all about.If Castle can't beat O'Donnell and Lowdon and Tarkanian can't beat Angle and Norton can't beat Buck, whose fault is that. Sarah Palin? But your right Sarah is going to kick alot of butt,So Mitt, Newt, John, Mitch, Tim, Mike, Haley, get ready.