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Peggy Noonan has done it now.

The erstwhile conservative writer has demonstrated a disturbing level of independent thought, and the Red (State) Channels crowd is about to blacklist her butt. And the rest of her, too -- particularly the fingers she uses to type her weekly Wall Street Journal column.

May God have mercy on her Commie-Lib soul.

You should SEE what this TRAITOR to Our Maximum Leader wrote this time!
Wait a sec; I'll SHOW you what this (and spew spittle when you say this) denizen of the mainstream media said in that lib'rul crapper of a column (and don't forget to try to sound like Douglas C. Neidermeyer when you say "crapper of a column")! Here:

He stood there at the podium, the kind of podium he'd stood at 5,000 times in a long political life, and talked to the kind of audience he knew well: supporters and loyalists, old friends and new. He knew how to play them, how to use the old jokes and have fun. And suddenly he was sobbing.

He had referred to his son Jeb's first campaign for governor. He had seen some "unfair stuff," but Jeb "didn't whine about it, he didn't complain." The old president began to weep. "The true measure of a man," he then said, "is how you handle victory, and also defeat." And here a sob tore out of him and he could not continue.

It is not fully right, or fully fair, to guess about another's emotions. But no one who
knows George H.W. Bush thinks that moment was only about Jeb. It wasn't only
about some small defeat a dozen years ago. It would more likely have been about
a number of things, and another son, and more than him.

Uh oh, Sparky. It's a-lookin' like she's castin' aspersions at our Commander in Chief. This can't be good.

Surely Mr. Bush knew -- surely he was first on James Baker's call list -- that the report would not, could not, offer a way out of a national calamity, but only suggestions, hopes, on ways through it. To know his son George had (with the best of intentions!) been wrong in the great decision of his presidency -- stop at Afghanistan or move on to Iraq? -- and was now suffering a defeat made clear by the report; to love that son, and love your country, to hold these thoughts, to have them collide and come together --this would bring not only tears, but more than tears.

And the younger President Bush, what of his inner world? He has been shorn of much --his place in the winner's circle, old advisers. A man who worked for Richard Nixon reminded me the other night that when Nixon fired Haldeman and Ehrlichman, "he lost his asbestos suit." He lost his primary protectors and loyalists. President Bush is now without a similar layer. Old staffers gone, Rumsfeld gone, Cheney marginalized, Condi and Karen off representing. And the ISG. And the loss of Congress.

AAAAAIIIIEEEE!!!!!!!!!! That thar woman done become a Democrat!!!!

Unlike anguished wartime presidents of old, he seems resolutely un-anguished. Think of the shattered Lincoln of the last Mathew Brady photographs, taken just weeks before he was assassinated. He'd gone from a bounding man of young middle age who awed his secretaries by his ability to hold a heavy ax from his fully outstretched arm, to, four years later, "the old tycoon." Or anguished Lyndon B. Johnson sitting in the cabinet room by himself, literally with his head in his hands. History takes a toll.

But George W. Bush seems, in the day to day, the same as he was. It is part of the Bush conundrum--a supernal serenity or a confidence born of cluelessness? You decide. Where you stand on the war will likely determine your answer. But I'll tell you, I wonder about it and do not understand it, either what it is or what it means. I'd ask someone in the White House, but they're still stuck in Rote Talking Point Land: The president of course has moments of weariness but is sustained by his knowledge of the ultimate rightness of his course . . .

If he suffers, they might tell us; it would make him seem more normal, which is always a heartening thing to see in a president.

But maybe there is no suffering.

Maybe he outsources suffering. Maybe he leaves it to his father.

(SFX: Sound of right-wing echo chamber having collective case of the vapors. Punctuated by the occasional THUD! of fainting without benefit of a "fainting couch.")

And now we cut to the OpinionJournal.com reader responses to Miss Noonan's column. Keep in mind, now, that the following ARE NOT parody:

When or if we lose in Iraq, it will be in large part because of a liberal media that has done everything in its power to undermine the decision to go to war, turn the American public against the war, predict defeat and proclaim defeat while ignoring successes.

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I see the current President Bush as a visionary and I believe that someday the world will thank him for going to Iraq to liberate the people. Things are bad there now because the terrorist do not want the President to succeed in Iraq. Yes, some mistakes were made but mistakes happen in wars and this is the war on terrorism and I hate the American people who do not understand that. The American people need to support President Bush and show a united front against the enemy and what did they do during the last election. The stupid voters elected a bunch of dingbats who are going to make matters much worse you just wait and see.

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I'm not enjoying Peggy Noonan's recent snarky blind sides of our sitting president. Just because a president doesn't include you in his inner circle doesn't mean he should die from a thousand cat scratches from someone who couches her attacks in therapy-speak.

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After reading Peggy Noonan's offering today I'm a bit confused. Is it the aim of former friends and forever foes to "break" our current president? If so, he must be driving everyone nuts because thus far it appears that is not going to happen. Questioning his "mental capacity" keeps sneaking into columns. Someone should address the "mental capacity" of Baker/Hamilton, et al The ISG is a very bad joke pushed off and supported by Democrats, has been Republicans and major media. I smell lots of rats. I enjoy your writing and have for years. Not today's offering.

Lord, have mercy. The final act of lemmings -- chucking the dagger at the Independent Thinker before diving off the cliff. Or drinking the Kool-Aid. Whatever.

Here's my favorite line. If there's a Dumbass Remark Hall of Fame somewhere, this needs to be in it:

Yes, some mistakes were made but mistakes happen in wars and this is the war on terrorism and I hate the American people who do not understand that.

Well, start by hating me. I am not amused that there are 2,928 American soldiers dead from a war we were railroaded into by the Bush Administration. There were no weapons of mass destruction; there was no working relationship between Saddam and al Qaida.

There are, however, those dead sons and daughters of American mothers and fathers. And those dead mothers and fathers of new American orphans.

And there are the 22,057 wounded, many grievously so.

That, of course, doesn't count the wounded capability of an American military that's being run into the dry, sandy ground. And that's not counting this country's wounded credibility.

And that's not counting the next president's wounded ability to govern a nation inclined -- after Vietnam, Watergate and, now, King George's Plague (Iraq + Katrina lies and bungling) -- to go outside and check every time he (or she) tells us the sky is blue.