And she’s a professional writer, too!
Peggy Noonan’s live mic honesty has caused her enough trouble that she makes an effort to explain it in today’s WSJ. Here’s the bit she’s at most pains to explain (from the full transcript on Talking Points)
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 –
Peggy Noonan: It’s over.
A widespread reading of this bit was that Noonan was ready to write an obituary for McCain’s campaign. In today’s WSJ, she tries to explain: “In our off-air conversation, I got on the subject of the leaders of the Republican party assuming, now, that whatever the base of the Republican party thinks is what America thinks.” Uh, the prior thing she’d said off-mic was “Yeah”
Oh my, some of the fanciest dancing seen since Dame Margot Fonteyn’s retirement. Goes SPLAT though.
Peggy gonna have to spend a lifetime of “make nice” with Kay Bailey.
I knew this reminded me of something and just now remembered what:
Whew! Been bothering me for hours.
And we all know what happened to HD.