If Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan decided to be a presidential candidate next year, she would be barred from the debates.
The GOP debate rules include a pledge to support the Republican 2024 presidential nominee and Ms. Noonan makes it clear, from the opening paragraph of her latest weekend column that she would not back a Trump candidacy.
Noonan declares in her lede paragraph that if “Trump Republicans” nominate the former president next year, “they will have ended the Republican Party.’ That there be no mistaking her comment as mere figurative remark, she declares in the following paragraph: “I mean it literally. The GOP will disappear as a party. Meaning the primary national vehicle of conservative thought and policy will disappear.” Peggy Noonan in 2016 (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 license)
As the title of this screed indicates — “Chris Christie and the Republican Party’s Peril” — Noonan […]
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