She shouldn't be encouraging Romney to be a better candidate because she herself just made the case that he is UNFIT to be President.

I'm not saying they should but they can. The whole problem with RMoney, despite being RMoney, is that his campaign staff and the campaign itself has no discipline. They are off the rails big time. One thing I can give the GOP's is that, until now it seems, they could run a campaign like nobody's business. They were ALWAYS on message and with Mitt, it seems the wheels have come off that particular wagon. I think the Shrub presidency really damaged the Republican party and the Teabagger's are putting the nails in the coffin. It's amazing when, as a very liberal democrat, I find myself actually missing moderate republicans and rooting for them to bring some sanity back to their party.

I have never seen such a biting, searing criticism of a GOP by a GOP ...

Behind the woodshed with you, Lil Mitt .......

New vid

She has some good ideas. It strikes me that some of them are somewhat progressive. Perhaps she is a progressive and doesn't even know it. She might benefit from a bit more introspection herself. In any case good article. I don't agree with a lot of it, but I see it's well thought out and seems invective free enough.

Hard as it is to believe, but among Cain, Bachmann, Perry, Santorum, and Gingrich, Romney was probably the least weird, the most well-prepared, and the most Presidential, and that's not saying much. And besides these nutcases there were other nuts even less Presidential who didn't run.

Right on the money.
She's too smart to be a Repug, maybe she'll come to the dark side someday.

...and that would be a bitter spiritual divorce.

than today's Republican party. It was his admin that started this embarrassing spiral of insanity for their party but at least back then, moderate's were allowed to be moderate's--they weren't targeted for defeat by their own party because they weren't "right" enough. They were actually capable of compromise.

It didn't just evaporate on it's own. The "movement conservative" Reaganites (like Noonan) fed hate, hear, and paranoia -- and starved moderation -- to get themselves in power. Unsurprisingly, the part of their base that they fed grew, and the part that they starved withered.

Yes, they were different then. They had to be, lest they be relegated to the ranks of "ranting cranks". But they operated under the same "Zoh my God! If the Democrats are in control they will drive the country to utter ruin!" hysterics they do now.

That's not a factoid she would have acquired via life experience.

Peggy Noonan is a Catholic. It shows in this piece, clearly.

Still, it's a sign of the state of the Romney campaign when Peggy Noonan looks like a hard-nosed pragmatist.

Of course, one point she avoids or just doesn't get is that the state of the Romney campaign is a reflection of the state of the Republican Party. You've spent your career praising people like Romney and excoriating Democrats but you never paid attention to where that was leading your party. You built that, Peggers.

She can be stunningly obtuse, but equally insightful...in my partisan opinion. But I'm always glad when she leans toward "our" side. She is neither bought nor sold and I respect that.

Talking about his market share.

This is great.

It's not that she's always right - it's that Repubs almost always listen to her. If I am right, Romney will be apologizing by the end of the week. But it will be too little, too late to repair the damage.