She's become a performing pet for the liberal MSM. They put her on, she trashes Palin, and the MSM gets to say how smugly virtuous they are: “See, even conservatives like Peggy Noonan agree with us!”
And Noonan is being dishonest with herself when she says Palin doesn't stand for anything. She does stand for something: She's a populist, anti-corruption conservative who believes in individual rights and responsibilities, and a strong, no-nonsense foreign policy.
That Peggy Noonan, for all her Eastern sophistication, can not fathom why these values are popular with American voters, reveals that Noonan is not nearly as astute an observer as she thinks she is.
As Michael Reagan wrote shortly after the RNC, Sarah Palin is the best living embodiment of the Ronald Reagan legacy.
That is not to say she and RR see every issue the same way, but she alone among contemporary politicians represents so many of the same values AND can excite - inspire - lead in ways that other conservatives cannot (through no fault of their own). Palin has rare political, leadership, and communication gifts that come along once in a generation at best. She alone gives us hope of a resurgence of conservatism.
Peggy Noonan’s delusional attacks on Governor Palin have BETRAYED the Reagan legacy.
The reason that Noonan, Parker, and Christopher Buckley are becoming widely despised is that they are working to destroy the best bright hope that has come along in the past 20 years. All because Palin does not meet their sniffy, stuffy, pretentious “standards” of what they consider most respectable.
Well guess what, turncoat morons, Ronald Reagan went to an unknown little midwestern college and worked a career as an ACTOR before he succeeded so brilliantly in politics. He was always sneered at in the same ways that Noonan-Parker-Buckley are sneering at Palin.
It is absolutely disgusting that supposedly conservative chatterbox writers are serving the Demagogues’ agenda of tearing down Palin.
Noonan, Parker, Buckley and their pretentious ilk are dead to me — I will never care about their bogus opinions about anything. They are on the side of the snivelling traitor class of left-wing Demagogues, no matter what their past positions or claims of “conservatism” might indicate.