Just because my enemy attacks one of my friends does NOT mean that that friend is my BEST friend. BUT, when the smarmy Peggy Noonan attacks one of my friends, it is cause to sit up and take note. And when the nature of that attack is in the Malkin-Coulter vein, we know we have struck the tender underbelly of the Rightwing Beast.
Noonan proclaims: "We are grown-ups . . . We'd like knowledge, judgment, a prudent understanding of the world and of the ways and histories of the men and women in it."
This grown-up then proceeds to pronounce that Romney, McCain, Giuliani, Thompson and Duncan Hunter are all "reasonable" -- as are Biden, Dodd, Richardson and Obama (though too young and inexperienced to be President) -- but this is what she says about John Edwards:
John Edwards is not reasonable. . . . .[W]e can't have a president who spent two minutes on YouTube staring in a mirror and poofing his hair. Really, we just can't.
I think this is a valid, positive reason to vote for Edwards--the clear sense that the Noonans and Coulters and O'Reilly's cannot imagine the Truman Hell that they are about to enter ("I just tell'em the truth, and it feels like hell to them"). Read the whole thing here:
Greenwald on Noonan, Edwards and more.