Peggy Noonan: Romney will win!

So smug. So uninformed. It's as though the historic moment we're living through will bring much pain to people who are informed and do pay attention.

Gold I tell you!

As evidence of her candidate's impending victory, her final pre-election column talked about a proliferation of Romney yard signs in "tony Northwest Washington, D.C." That "observation" alone is enough to discredit anything she ever again claims, for eternity. There is not a single precinct in D.C. that gave Obama less than 85 percent. There's a point at which wishful thinking leads to unadulterated fabrication. Congrats, Peggy , on crossing that line!

Supporters. Well, a lot of us Didn't need a yard sign and or a car sticker. I needed to vote. My entire Hispanic family are Obama supporters who turned to the polls on election day to vote.

I bet Noonan didnt count ppl like me.

They also hate them Mormons too!

She has that affected tone about her that just makes me think of fingernails on a chalk board.

Arrogant doesn't begin to describe this self absorbed twit!

Oxycodone maybe. An opiate or semi-synthetic opiate of some kind, almost certainly.

1950's suburban Connecticut advertising culture writ large. Some things never change...

It just boggles my mind that these people are so dumb.

It boggles (and I confess thrills) me that they all
believed Mitt would win up until the last moment.

I haven't any sympathy because I don't think they have
any self-awareness.

If they were shocked stunned and devastated by the loss,
it's a good thing. I think Peggy Noonan is right that
there was something going on with the American
people.. she just sorely misinterpreted it as being
stupidity.

The check Rmoney paid her for that kiss ass interview before the concession speech? And she said the ONLY truth Rmoney said in all of his 6 years running. "I will not blame my predecessor".

"Fox news on election night # parallel reality":

to the decision desk guys that's nuts what was she hoping they would take it back??? That would not have changed the reality that the President had won LOL
They are nuts. I wish the Desk had taken it back. Imagine all the Faux viewers believing Romney had won. In fact they can just continuing reporting for the next four years as if Romney is President it will keep the crazies from going nuts

I can remember Noonan from her Reagan speech writing days. She wrote the stirring words of comfort he uttered after the '86 space shuttle disaster. Disagree with her politics, sure, but she had a gift with the word.

But by ensconcing herself in the alternate reality that is the Fox bubble, she has transmogrified into a clueless and thoroughly uninformed and uninformative hack. She "feels" the crowd's enthusiasm at Romney rallies; does she even remember that same unscientifically quantified "surge" that was reported at the Mondale rallies in the campaign rallies immediately preceding his record landslide loss? She also wrote about "vibrations" and "sensing" good things. Lots of anecdotal nonsense.

Noonan and those other "educated," blindfold-wearing, self-deluded and self-styled psephologists like George F. Will and Michael Barone really need to get to know their country better in general. It might not be a bad idea too for them to consult with pollsters without the last name Rasmussen.

Noonan has on her own developed into what a social commentator or pundit fears most: thoroughly inconsequential. She has heaped yet one more shovelful onto the rising peak of Bullshit Mountain.

Should we not expect better from the conservative "thinkers"? If I were a Republican strategist and really wanted to win next time through sounding out my prospective constituency, I'd trade 10 Noonans for the thoughts of, say, a randomly selected independent-leaning woman from a Northeast or Midwest suburb. I don't think many such voters were at those last Romney rallies.

.... Nate Fucking Silver

He's a bad motherfucker and roolz the sliderule.

'oh sh*t'


because those words just felt right at that moment

How'd all that dynamism work out for you, Peggy?

"dynamism" and more votes Ms Noonan believed the hype of the parallel GOP universe but so did Gov. Romney and his campaign team.

she stoned? She has magic underwear ?

They will be saying this for years.

and it backfired

what can you say??? The video speaks for its self. They are so disillusioned and more and more people are catching on.

The first minute or so of the video, after she's asked her impressions, she gives an exceedingly anodyne answer and wraps it up by saying how it's "fascinating" that people with whom she's acquainted (doormen? barstool buddies? Dick Morris?) "genuinely" don't know who's going to win. She calls her opening remark her "Ur Thought," as if to suggest there's some sort of fundament of profundity in her random, everyday musings. She might've left it at and looked almost reasonable if not especially keen or insightful. But for the next 3 minutes, given the rope of more airtime, she opts to hang herself in expanding the observation to suggest an unsupported "feeling" of a Romney wave.

"Ur Thought" or "er ... thought"?

Sorry Peggy, you arrogant piece of work, now she and all her little right wing friends, George Will, etc will go on ABC, Sunday and say " oh well, we got it wrong huh" ......yup you did

republicans are so peachy clean and now she is eating crow. I hope she chokes on it.

Ms. Noonan has been deep in a nice big bottle of Vodka.

I wonder if her typical high school-level editorial piece will appear in the Wall St. Journal today.

Americano-republicania

Romney is going to win....and I love you Ronnie Reagan. It's political analysis like that is how you qualify for the main stream media.

Was written by two people who knew her in high school and college. Peggy We Hardly Knew Ye

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all spaced out like she's on medication or something.

Oh look! There's a pile. A Goober Pyle! Ahhhhhh. Heyyyyy Annnnndyyyyyy!

And Tuesday night your bubble burst.

"Must...seem....im...por....tant...to some....one....."

God, I hate the she is part of my generation. We just came out and voted and kicked some ass. This is the most satisfying win in my life. she is so smug. I just love the they lost and were shocked by it.

Even on FOX news?

We have been overwhelmed by statistical data suggesting the president will win, but... Fuck that.

"I decided to throw out all tha inconvenient objective evidence and go with my own feelings. Feelings I've gotten from talking to other white republicans that inhabit the same bubble I do."

Every article and pundit that I heard were saying how close this election was. They said that the young people won't come out to vote. They actually exceeded the last election turn out. They didn't take into account that the minorities would react to the Republicans' attempt to suppress the vote with renewed determination. It is simply a fact that the corporate owned media is only interested in revenue and their hacks will not say anything to alienate any segment. It would just be bad business.

I think that, plus early voting this time around, made a big difference. The Obama team went under the assumption that it would be a close race and looked for new voters everywhere.

The networks absolutely told their views what they wanted them to hear. Fox told theirs that Romney had it in the bag, and ABC-CBS-NBC told theirs that it was too close to call, neck-and-neck, a squeaker, etc etc.

But why is Bob Sheiffer still saying it? Why is he asking if Obama really has a mandate?

yeah, racism, intolerance, feelings of white superiority. Is that what's roaring back in your mind peggy?

i.e. Peggy is speaking from her gut

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This gal is ALWAYS so smug and full of herself!

"on Day One" ever again, it'll be to soon!

Peggy Noonan wrote a book about a man who traveled to a tiny out-of-the-way town where civil-rights workers were murdered to announce his candidacy for the presidency. She called the book "When Character Was King."

It is a metaphor for how Democrats differ from Republicans on public policy.

I have a feeling a glass of air would "fascinate" Peggy Noonan.

That's okay. Let me show you how that whole 'er feeling thing played out for you.

respects Rasmussen so much... fail...
her instincts... fail
her prediction...fail
her reputation... diminished

I hope she did. All of it.

HAHHAH