By ZamboniWow, you can just tell by her awkward mea culpa in The Wall Street Journal today — Peggy Noonan has been taken to the Rovian woodshed, big time.
We cats have never agreed with anything Ms. Noonan's ever said — with the possible exception of her recent off-camera denigration of the Sarah Palin nomination as "bullshit" and her pronouncement that the McCain campaign is "over."
However, we readily admit that Ms. Noonan is a talented writer. Which is one of the many reasons that we're simply agog at the pretzel she's twisted herself into, trying to get out from under her intemperate remarks.
"I got on the subject of the leaders of the Republican party assuming, now, that whatever the base of the Republican party thinks is what America thinks," she chokes. "I made the case that this is no longer true, that party leaders seem to me stuck in the assumptions of 1988 and 1994, and blah blah blah blah...." (We'd quote the rest of it, but it makes no sense.)
Here's what Ms. Noonan really said. (We cats know, because we've got very good ears, and we've listened to the tape.)
"It's over... The most qualified [woman]? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives. Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and that's not what they're good at, they blow it."
As for her piece in the Journal today, well, all we can say is that it reads pretty tortured. Reminds us of kidnap victims and POWs who make those monosyllabic videos denouncing everything their captors abhor.
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