Peggy Noonan is a gifted writer. Unfortunately she is also a Republican elitist who, like so many of her “inside the beltway media” friends, thinks that the problem with Palin is her lack of intelligence.
http://www.peggynoonan.com/
Noonan was against Palin from the beginning as this youtube clip reveals.
The problem with Noonan isn’t that she is wrong about Palin’s lack of knowledge, experience or familiarity with some basic core political philosophy. I’ve been making these same observations since shortly after Palin was nominated. I think Noonan is spot on in that analysis.
No, the problem with Noonan, in the true spirit of elitism, is that she seems to think that Palin, because of these deficiencies could perform any worse as a leader of America then most of the leaders that are currently running this country who have the knowledge, experience and familiarity with some basic core political philosophy which Peggy thinks is so important.
The point here is that the elitist experts running the country have bollixed things up royally, and this despite their so called “expertise,” which Noonan seems to believe is currently present in our leaders. Given how bollixed things are in the political realm, the question has to be asked if, ‘it is even possible that Sarah Palin could do any worse then those whom the elitist Noonan fawns over so readily.’ For that matter, I seriously wonder if the special education class at the local government school could perform any worse then Peggy’s “experts” who have been leading us.
Noonan, essentially makes the case that Palin is a novice who has no business being in the world of high stakes political leadership. In a normal world I would agree, but from where I’m sitting in the cheap seats the current parade of fools that we style leaders, couldn’t possibly be underperformed — not even by someone with the name of Forrest Gump.
So the fact that Palin’s isn’t qualified, is no reason to take Noonan’s warning seriously. We are awash in unqualified people (including former speech writers making their careers in journalism) serving as our leaders. What difference could it possibly make if a unqualified commoner were elected versus an unqualified elitist?
The ship of state is being run by fools. When such a situation obtains it hardly matters which fool, elitist or commoner, is serving as Captain of the Ship.
