who are deathly afraid of becoming irrelevant if the voters turn back to American values. They know this is a center right country and they fear people like Palin who can give voice to first principles in a way that is attractive to the average voter.

a bitter, jealous media hack who is desperate to curry favor with the Georgetown cocktail circuit because she hasn’t really been relevant for who knows how long. What a disgusting ‘hit’ piece. While I like Sarah, I am not in the camp who believe she’s a female version of The One. However, this POS by Noonan was nothing more than a hate-filled, bitter, personal screed against someone who, apparently, struck some sort of bile-filled nerve of Peg’s.

As to your question - most moderates I know by their nature find some sort of ‘vitrue’ in being more ‘thoughtful’ and ‘reasoned’ in their ‘moderate’ approach to life than the rest of us neandrathal, knuckle-dragging cretins who actually not only have values and core beliefs but actually *cling* to them. Thus, if we get upset with them it’s because we’re just too small-minded, naive, and, well, stupid, to see how reasoned and brilliant they are. When they refuse to support us it’s because, well, they’re just too smart and brilliant to be sucked in to supporting the likes of…….’us’.

She evidently lost the ability to think “outside the beltway” a long time ago, making her irrelevant to modern conservative thinking. If I ran the WSJ, I would send her packing (regardless of her past work), as she is now an embarrassement…

The minute I read it, I started to write a rant of a diary myself tearing her to shreds. She hides behind her writing style and pretends to be deliberative, but her article is rife with catty jealous pot shots. A “bonbon”. She doesnt read?

Disgusting human being.

And there is a difference between percieved elected poltical “moderates” in Blue states and talking heads. I have no patience for this crowd. It not a conservative thing really. Its an elitism thing. The definitive country club conservative.

years ago…

…she speaks into lovely dulcet tones, with only the slightest of upturned nose, as she spouts nonsense that would have gotten her bounced from the Reagan White House post haste.

She is everything we have come to expect from the Old Guard of the Republican Party…

…and she has become as irrelevant as a stale moldy bagel…

…and just as palatable.

she was clearly not truly grounded in conservatism, as she sold out conservatives as soon as she became infatuated with Barack Obama. I doubt she was every really a conservative, she just started her career in the Reagan era so jumped on the train and rode it until she thought a newer, shinier train was going faster.

Join the RedState Strike Force

She went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be.

Except for that bolded phrase, Peggy Noonan is absolutely correct.

Even as someone who has posted above inresponse to this diary once intimated just a day or two before John McCain selected her as his running mate, Sarah Palin does not have heft or gravitas nor does she display a depth of understanding of conservative principles. But that is not the problem. The problem is that many conservatives now want to pretend she does and thus, she is not forced to learn.

I remember “stupid” Dan Quayle and a host of others that the squishes and the libmedia were afraid of. (remember “potatoe” was printed on answer card.)

Call folks names, the public is too dumb to verify facts and find out they were pretty bright people

I do not get this implication of stupidity from some fronts. Anyone who has heard the lady speak knows she is intelligent, whether they are willing to admit it or not.
There may be several legitimate criticisms of Palin you can reasonably make, but being dumb certainly isn’t one of them.

And tsquare, I agree with you that big words should never be used when a diminutive word will do….

Regards

“Here’s why all this matters. The world is a dangerous place. It has never been more so, or more complicated, more straining of the reasoning powers of those with actual genius and true judgment. This is a time for conservative leaders who know how to think.” Peggy Noonan in her hack piece “A Farewell to Harms”

First, if you want to interpret this drivel, it really says that we average Americans are not smart enough, good enough, or wise enough, to make decisions about our future. Like a classic aristocrat, Noonan believes the entitled, self-described betters need to shepherd the poor, drooling idiots who can barely feed themselves into the future. She doesn’t believe the people can possibly make an appropriate choice. We must be docile enough to hire the brainiacs to tell us how to behave.

Second, she broke Ronald Reagan’s eleventh commandment. Thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans. Reagan would have taken Peggy to the woodshed over this garbage. He would rightly argue it is not the leaders who make America a great country, but her people that make the right choices and sacrifices. He believed in real democracy, not this elect a statesman crap the blue-bloods subscribe to. He believed Americans made America work, not politicians.