Monday, February 18, 2008
Peggy Can Put It Like Nobody Else Can
I often disagree on policy with Peggy Noonan, but her assessments of candidates and how they are being perceived by voters and the media are always acute and thoughtfully expressed. She nails it with this line:
- Her whole life right now is a reverse Sally Field. She's looking out at an audience of colleagues and saying, "You don't like me, you really don't like me!"
Although of course she's not saying it. Her response to what from the outside looks like catastrophe? A glassy-eyed insistence that all is well. "I'm tested, I'm ready, let's make it happen!" she yelled into a mic on a stage in Texas on the night of her latest defeat. This is meant to look like confidence. Whether or not you wish her well probably determines whether you see it as game face, stubbornness or evidence of mild derangement.
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