Huh? This line in her column makes no sense to me at all. Is that all she could come up with to try to support her claim? That's some garbage.
And we must do nothing that provides our foes with ammunition with
which they can accuse us of conceit, immaturity or impetuousness.
[spit]
The garbage metaphor is a surprisingly weak one coming from Peggy. We could speculate that she wrote the column too hastily or that someone has kidnapped her and is writing columns in her stead.