Thorin wrote:
(>>>>>>Personally, I have never understood those who think the sun rises and sets on Peggy Noonan. She really annoys me with that soft, gooey (and supercilious) attitude of hers.<<<<<<<<<) I often disagree with Noonan, but she certainly deserves respect, having worked for our last great president and having written the best book on that presidency, "What I Saw At The Revolution." She also is an adult, and recognizes that the overblown rhetoric served up in Bush's Second Inaugural bears little to no resemblance to any strain of traditional conservatism. Just as an example: Bush said that freedom in America depends on freedom abroad, which implies that we are not safe so long as, say, Mali and Myanmar are not democracies.
No, it's just sour grapes by a former speech writer whose reputation as a wordsmith is overblown.
And many of us believe that Dubya will prove to be as good a president a Reagan when history renders its final verdict.
Oh yes, it would be nice those of you who are constantly bashing neoconservatives could work up as much dudgeon against our real enemies.