Dear Peggy Noonan: Yes, Sarah Killed - Wolves, for Starters

"Sarah Palin killed," Peggy Noonan writes in today's http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122059352189503479.html?mod=djemEditorialPage#. "And more than killed." Of course she's referring to her jokes - and all the other lines she delivered so well. Then she goes on to suggest that Palin is "normal," as compared to Hillary Clinton, who, among other things, is "grim."

But it would seem that Noonan the careful wordsmith has let something slip. Indeed Sarah Palin has killed. She is a veritable Grim Reaper of the tundra, wrapping herself in the flag while mowing down wolves from the air and proclaiming her love of life at the same time.

Her official photographs show her pride in her ability to whack wildlife. How happy she looks in her office with a vast bearskin across her couch and a dead king crab as the centerpiece of a coffee table. See how she smiles when she talks of bagging moose. And how satisfied she seems to feel in taking down polar bears simply by filing a lawsuit.

Oh yes, see how she loves Jesus as she lays waste to the Garden of Eden!

This is not normal. It is beyond grim. Whoever got to McCain to foist the killa from Wasilla on to the ballot has also gotten to Noonan, who now, like every other Republican, has the blood of our wildlife on their hands as they proclaim the end of east coast "elites" and the triumph of the West while obliterating our heritage, our souls, our spirit.

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[SamEllison]

Nero fiddled as Rome burned, history repeats.

[Doofus]

Says Peggy Noonan, backing off from 'It's over.'...

'Her flaws accentuated her virtues. Now and then this happens in politics, but it's rare. An example: The very averageness of her voice, the not-wonderfulness of it, highlighted her normality: most people don't have great voices.'

'Baberaham Lincoln, as she's been called.'

'That was ugly.'

'This new war on new turf is not good, and carries the potential of great harm. Everyone really ought to stop, breathe deep, and think.'

'It is starting to look to me like a nation-defining election.'

'Where are the Democrats going to go? I suspect to foreign policy. In politics it used to be called Tolstoy: war and peace. McCain-Palin will mean more war, Obama-Biden will mean peace.'

***

'John McCain also made a speech. It was flat.'

[Doofus]

Noonan, ever the speechwriter, is not troubled that Palin (& McCain)
do not have the wit to write their own remarks.

At least Abe Lincoln wrote his own speeches (like Obama, most often),
though Lincoln (like Palin) was said to have had a most unappealing voice.

I take comfort in the strong belief that there aren't enough right-wing Repos
to get Palin+McCain elected.

[batguano]

More on the fitness, morality and integrity of Sarah Palin to hold the highest office in our republic.....only a heartbeat away......and the Bush Neo-Republicans who are foisting this charade on America, especially on "just folks" from "small town America" who they apparently take for fools.

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%e2%80%9cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%e2%80%9d/

See the Sarah Coward Clock @ http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/?pid=355765

[batguano]

Thank you for your sincerity & compassion for our wild creatures....and the truth. The depravity of Sarah...the Impaler....Palin is plain for all with eyes to see. This travesty must not stand.
http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm

"If all the beasts were gone, we would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast, happens to us. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the children of earth"

"perhaps there are other reasons why some men stop hunting as they get older.....not because they grow infirm, but because they grow more keenly aware of the finality of all life.
And a personal note on why I gave up hunting. I was not squeamish, say, about slitting the belly of a freshly killed rabbit and dumping the steaming guts onto the damp leaves on a chilly November day, but I cannot forget the day when I was 13 and shot at a big rusty fox squirrel three times before it came tumbling down from the tree, bouncing off limbs as it fell, then trying to crawl away.
And this hunter who would not remain a hunter grabbed the animal by it's tail, dragging it to a clearing to finish it off with the gun butt. Then he stood still in the dusk, listening to a chainsaw in the distance and waiting for his sadness to go away. He has been waiting for 40 years".

--- David Stout - from The Sadness of the Hunter - 1995

[patrice37]

I have a weird admiration for Peggy. She's an alarmingly gifted writer. But since she spoke to that MSNBC mic, it's apparent that she doesn't write what she believes or believe what she writes. She writes what she gets paid to write. This week she seriously undermined her own usefulness as a Republican marionette.

[IslandGyal]

People PLEASE register to vote before October 3rd. If possible request an absentee ballot and vote EARLY. I am not taking any chances with the republican this year; they like to disenfranchise voters, especially minorities.

So, if you don't have to deal with them on November 4th do NOT!

In Maryland you can request an absentee ballot. The deadline is October 28. PLEASE, vote and vote early!

http://www.elections.state.md.us/pdf/2007_English_InternetVRA.pdf

http://www.elections.state.md.us/pdf/2008_Absentee_Ballot_Application.pdf


Please pass along similar information about your state, thanks.

[MamaBird62]

The aerial wolf killing makes me ill. That's illegal most places except Alaska, thank God. Nobody eats wolf meat. What the hell is this for? Trophy kill?
Beautiful, intelligent, social creatures who grieve for missing members of the pack, those are wolves. Nearly hunted to extinction in the lower 48.
I really, really can't stand this woman.

[ttmatthe]

I can't believe she thinks anyone will buy into her praise of Sarah after being caught on camera trashing her.

[Ohsnap]

Sarah's a Dick.

[sassymom]

You criticize Palin for killing animals but Democrats think nothing of killing babies. Do I detect a teeny bit of hypocrisy here? I am sick of hearing about Obama and McCain. Is this truly the best that America has to offer? A plague on both their houses.

[anon004]

" . . . but Democrats think nothing of killing babies" Really? Do you have any statistics on actual babies the Democrats have killed? It seems to me with the social programs the Democrats promote and that the Republicans like to gut, the Democrats are the ones saving babies.

[k1k2legend]

Environmentalist, Sarah Palin is not, but how can any human being, particularly a woman who uses her love of family and her anti-abortion stance as tag notes for her campaign, so blatantly encourage the slaughter of innocent animals?
Watch the video of these courageous arialist hunters. The frightened wolf has no place to go to avoid being shot, and is slaughtered for Palin's blood money to any who will bring her the left leg of any wolf ! Any bets that none of these killers, including Palin, would track a wolf or bear on it's own terms where it had a chance to fight for it's life!
The question has to emerge: How can this woman state that she is pro-life when she has no remorse for killing innocent creatures? You have to know and accept that this type personality cannot maintain both standards. This does not represent hunting for survival nor does it relate to hunting for preference of wild meat. This information proves that Sarah Palin is an unfeeling, cruel person who is addicted to her need for control and her belief in her own PR.
Additional fact: Do not believe that these natural predators kill more than their share of livestock. The illegal aliens take their own toll and the ranchers and farmers know this, their lobbyists' grim rewards attest to this truth.

[YellerDawg]

The whole world heard how Piggy Noonan really feels about Klondike Barbie. Can you say open mic? It's hard to lose your credibility when you never had any to start with.

[wm1066]

Its not that she hunts that is the problem, but doing it from the air goes beyond the pall.
This is not a Sportman to be proud of, the animals dont stand a chance. This is "shooting fish in a barrel".

[Rmtns]

Huh?
Wtf are you talking about? Have you nothing to contribute but noise?

[BusGreg]

In 1992 Veep Dan Quayle made a lot of hay about the FICTICIOUS character "Murphy Brown" having a child as a single working mom, claiming it glamorizes single parenthood. In fact the TV sitcom highlighted the difficulty of a working mom raising a child by herself. 16 years later we have an unmarried MINOR child, 5 months pregnant by her ADULT boyfriend and all the right wing nuts are proclaiming how wonderful this is. Am I missing something here or what? This is also proof positive that the "Abstinence only 'till you're married" sex mis-education her mom, the veep candidate so fervently believes in and supports, does NOT work! Levy Johnston, Bristol Palins adult boyfriend does not even want children according to his myspace page. As Olliver Hardy used to say: That's another fine mess you got us into!