"Even if she is wrong, do we have to toss her over the side of the boat so reflexively when someone doesn't tow the party line?"
Apparently. If so, I'll be going over the side with her. And I'm taking 100,000 GOTV volunteers with me.
You can command 100,000 volunteers?
I doubt that.
"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."
PN is known as such a great admirer of RR. Funny. It seems to me that in this quote she equates the mind of RR to barren terrain. Would you say that this quote of PN's from Chapter 14 of "What I Saw at the Revolution" is laudatory or an insult of President Reagan?
I heard that Nancy Reagan was highly suspicious of Miss Noonan. Given this quotation, I could understand why.
By the way the quote can be found at this link:
http://www.aol.bartleby.com/66/17/42617.html
Another quote from Chapter 14 of "What I Saw At the Revolution:" "...when I thought of him in those days, it was as a gigantic heroic balloon floating in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, right up there between Superman and Big Bird. I felt like the kids in the apartments on Central Park West,watching the giant heads bob by."
We should not be concerned about her opinion of GWB. She was seriously flawed in her assessment of Ronaldus Magnus.
Your claim to be able to detach "100,000 GOTV volunteers" from the Republican party is disturbing for two reasons.
One, if an ostracism of Peggy Noonan is reason enough for you to ruin our party's chances in the next election, you are intellectually incapable of distinguishing big things from tiny ones.
And two, if you think you can actually deprive the party of "100,000 GOTV volunteers" in a fit of anger, your ego is so huge that you probably need professional help.