Peggy Noonan: Mic off, truth on

One of my favorite conservative columnists is the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan. A former Reagan speechwriter. I don't typically agree with her, but her prose is graceful and she doesn't ooze venom, loathing and opportunistic cynicism like Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, et al.

Unfortunately, her column today on Gov. Sarah Palin was wishy-washy crap.

The Sarah Palin choice is really going to work, or really not going to work. It's not going to be a little successful or a little not; it's not going to be a wash. She is either going to be magic or one of history's accidents. 

Peggy Noonan loves Sarah Palin. No, wait, Peggy Noonan hates Sarah Palin.

Noonan's an experienced political hand who certainly has a more-informed opinion than most. She's simply not willing to share it on the record.

It's like Noonan's got a gun to her head while gargling the Palin Kool-Aid; unwilling to spit it out for fear or pissing off her Republican fans, and unwilling to swallow it because she doesn't want to be on the record saying anything positive about someone she knows is poison for her party.

How do I know what Noonan really thinks of Palin?

Because she accidentally told me today.

When she thought the mics were off after an interview on NBC today, Noonan called McCain's selection of Palin "political bullshit" and said, presumably of McCain's chances of winning, "It's over."

I eagerly await Buzz Brockway and gang at Peach Pundit denouncing of Peggy Noonan as a high-tech lyncher.