[Bullish]

This is a hotter floor than the Republicans had, it’s more varied racially and ethnically and also more colorful – more people dressed in red, white and blue, shoes to hat, more people in crazy donkey hats, more wearing dozens of buttons. They look happy to be there, and a lot of them looked grateful, like it was their first convention.

Why don't you just go ahead and join them than Peggy?

You know you want to. Or have you already?

[kcvl]

Peggy Noonan Goes After Sarah Palin
She Has Become What She Used to Loathe

Mark Whittington, Yahoo! Contributor Network

Nov 5, 2010

One hardly knows where to start. Peggy Noonan used to disdain Northeastern elite snots who looked down their noses at the great unwashed, people like Ronald Reagan. Now it seems that living too long in Manhattan has turned Noonan into what she used to loathe.

Sarah Palin’s point was obviously not that Reagan was “just an actor.” Her point was that people who hated him would use that fact to belittle him, ignoring the record of accomplishment that Noonan so eloquently relates.

Noonan is also ignoring Palin’s solid record of accomplishment. Small-town city councilwoman. Small-town mayor. Energy regulator. Governor. Vice presidential candidate. And, as the midterms proved, Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle aside, a political force of nature.

Peggy Noonan, by the way, is a little confused about Sarah Palin’s media career. It is her daughter, Bristol Palin, who is performing on “Dancing With the Stars,” and not Sarah herself. Palin and her family are about to appear in an eight-part travel documentary about Alaska, something one suspects that the Gipper would have approved of.

When Noonan calls Sarah Palin a “nincompoop,” it is without apparent irony. If she had called Palin an “amiable dunce,” as someone once called Reagan, the irony would have been there even for Noonan herself to see.

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