“Does anyone around here think McCain is a conservative?”
No, but he is compared to Obama for whom Noonan dragged out her kneepads in ‘08 and is again in ‘12.
We owe here NOTHING. Not a damned thing. Reagan had his own philosophy. She did not create it. In some instances she put his beliefs into words, like an ad writer. She’s given little to no clue that she herself believes in Reagan’s philosophy. If she did, she’d never get invited to all those swell Manhattan cocktail parties.
And the line for which she is most known was lifted from a WWII poem.