Liberal Talk Radio

After reading Peggy Noonan’s latest*, I have two questions. One, is there anybody — save Karl Rove himself — who believes the Republicans will win this election? And two, won’t it be totally funny if they actually pull it out this time?

Vintage Nooner:

There remains a broad, reflexive, and very Republican kind of loyalty to George Bush. He is a war president with troops in the field. You can see his heart. He led us in a very human way through 9/11, from the early missteps to the later surefootedness. He was literally surefooted on the rubble that day he threw his arm around the retired fireman and said the people who did this will hear from all of us soon.

Images like that fix themselves in the heart. They’re why Mr. Bush’s popularity is at 38%. Without them it wouldn’t be so high.

Ba dum-dum!

*I’m guessing that there isn’t even one BATP reader in a hundred that can stomach Peggy Noonan, but I tell you, when she’s not shilling for a party or JPII, she’s good.