Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan Trip over Live Mics on MSNBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4sOM4tpno

It’s pretty obvious that there’s no focus, excitement, or passion behind the McCain campain. I hate to say it, but I would have voted for him a decade ago, when he wasn’t a party hack. Now he’s voting over 95% along party lines and pretending he’s still a maverick. It’s depressing.

At any rate, for those who don’t know, Peggy Noonan wrote the “Boys of Pointe du Hoc” speech for Reagan as well as the post-Challenger disaster speach link. She also was origin of G.H.W. Bush’s “a kinder, gentler, nation” quote. She now has declared the McCain campaign officially over. She obviously belives in John McCain, as I once did, but it seems to me that she no longer believes in the decisions of the party.

Transcript:

Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she’s the right woman for the job Up next, one man who’s already convinced and he’ll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.

(cut away)

Peggy Noonan: Yeah.

Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys — this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work. And –

PN: It’s over.

MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.

PN: Saw Kay this morning.

CT: Yeah, she’s never looked comfortable about this –

MM: They’re all bummed out.

CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bullshiat about narratives –

CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.

MM: I totally agree.

PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.

MM: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.

CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.

MM: Yeah.