I am constantly amazed. A conservative values the individual. Values individual thought. Individual opinion.
Yet have another conservative stray off the Party reservation and the howling begins. Not at all dissimilar to the dogmatics of the left.
You don't have to agree with anything Peggy Noonan writes. You don't have to like her style. But the lady surely does have style.
A Peggy Noonan column is never going to be mistaken for anyone else's. And she always makes her point. Her a point. And it is always reasoned. Individually.
I think she may be a conservative. An actual one.
That's a good summation of Noonan. It's funny reading some of the haters here. One mark of a good stylist is he or she writes in an original style that one could notice without even reading their by-line. Noonan was a legitimate part of the Reagan Revolution. That alone is more than any of her haters can say for themselves. Moreover she is a fine stylist. Sure she mentions details that aren't simply on-the-nail--that's called being a writer, and using your writer's eye to bring in other elements that illuminate the subject. I don't understand why people here have a problem with her for doing precisely what an op-ed writer is supposed to do--bring their unique perspective to a subject. People don't have to LIKE her, but she is an accomplished woman who can't be faulted for her writing abilities, unless those complaining about them can point to their books, columns and speeches for Ronald Reagan.