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.

‘m not Irish, but am Catholic and I live in Charlestown now, the green square mile, wall to wall fighting Irish Democrats. You just got to know when to pick your battles.

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

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.

…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.

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.

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’.