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Noonan: 'Over' Didn't Mean Mac

Posted Sep 4, 08 7:19 AM CDT in Opinion,  Politics 

(Newser) – Columnist Peggy Noonan has been catching flak since being caught on tape saying "It's over" during a frank assessment of John McCain's veep choice. But the Wall Street Journal writer insists she wasn't pronouncing Mac's White House hopes dead —she was simply remarking that the days of the GOP's base being connected to mainstream America are over, she writes.

Noonan, who said she feels "mugged" by the media after the flap, also apologized for using a "vulgar epithet" during her informal comments during a break on an MSNBC television panel. She used it while blasting the party's drive to chose a candidate not for experience, but for a person's effective role in an intended "narrative"—what the party hopes to communicate about itself.

Source Wall Street Journal

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Sarah Palin, left, is joined by John McCain, right, and daughter Piper at the end of her speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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John McCain joins his running mate, Sarah Palin, on stage after her speech to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan speaks during a remote interview on 'Meet the Press' March 23, 2008 in New York City   (Getty Images)
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I am certainly sorry that someone abused my meaning in the use of the words, 'It's over', and I'm sorry I didn't have the Kay Bailey Hutchison thought before this morning. - Peggy Noonan

The party can no longer assume that its base is utterly in line with the thinking of the American people. And when I said, 'It's over!'—and I said it more than once—that is what I was referring to. - Peggy Noonan

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