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| Peggy Noonan: the trouble with dynasties |
| 2009-01-02 |
| ...People who've seen politics up close when young tend to be embarrassed to be in politics. This is because they have seen too much of the show-biz aspects, the balloons and smiles and rallies. They are rarely (and this is odd) tutored in the meaning behind the artifice: that the artifice exists for a purpose, and the purpose is to advance a candidate who will advance a constructive philosophy. And so they find the idea of coming up with a philosophy sort of show-offy, off point and insincere. This is one reason modern political dynasties tend to have a deleterious effect on our politics. When you get new people in the process who think politics is about meaning, they tend to bring the meaning with them. On the other hand, those who've learned that politics is about small and shallow things, and the romance of dynasties, bring that with them. (They also bring old retainers, sycophants, and ingrained money lines, none of which help the common weal.) Those who are just born into it and just want to continue it, bring a certain ambivalence. And signal it. They're always slouching toward victory. It's not terrible, but it doesn't do any great good, either. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 I only clicked this link when I remembered it came here and not the linked article. No traffic for turncoats. I could care less what Noonan has to say about anything. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2009-01-02 14:53 |
| #3 Carloine has already said unless she is appointed to the senate seat she has no intent to run for the office in 2010. Translation: give me my pony or I go home to sulk. If the woman really thought she was the best person qualified to hold the office she would run. Trouble is, she knows in her heart she is not the most qualified for the job. She just "feels" the most "entitled" to Uncle Bobby's old seat. |
| Posted by: MarkZ 2009-01-02 11:31 |
| #2 I was dman disappointed in that column Frank. It sounded like my wife wrote it.. and she's damn near a commie and some what classist to boot. To my better .5z credit tho she's apply the same damn hammer stick to Caroline. So I dunnoo... I pray for Bill Clinton to get the Nod. Also there's a 1/1000 chance he might do an Adams and do some serious good. /Optimst |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-01-02 11:22 |
| #1 I don't read this *sniff* elitist trash writer *sniff* after what she wrote this summer about Palin. FOAD, Peggy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-01-02 11:16 |