Do you view the papacy as a poularity contest or one as the head of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and Christ's vicar on earth? You seem to be hung up on what the Polish masses think.
I'm not hung up on what the "Polish masses" think. But if you really believe you haven't been disdainful of John Paul, you'd have no trouble letting "the Polish masses" be the judge of that. The fact that you aren't shows just who is the "sissy" around here.
When I think of the "Polish masses," I think of the people who held on to the Faith despite tremendous persecution, some of whom handed it on to me. And people who had the good sense to always follow the Vicar of Christ, and not cast their lot with an excommunicated Frenchman who defied the Vicar of Christ.