[Jack.Kerr]

Thanks to the mod who fixed the odd font issue.

Actually, Noonan's condemnation of Palin was much more directly about the candidate herself, and frankly much harsher than anything Rich said about her. So yes, Noonan's blast was a fairly more sound indictment of Palin herself. This just reminds me again that it was the Republicans who worked closely with Palin during McCain's presidential campaign who started striking the most damaging blows to her credibility as a politician (let alone as a candidate for national office), not Democrats, not the "MSM".....but Republicans.

Also, as to the effect on the GOP of the Far Right extremist anti-abortionists (to whom, with the assassination of George Tiller, we can again fairly refer as 'murderers'), and the Far Right extremist religious zealots who managed to hijack the Republican Party for the last 20-30 years, Frank actually explicitly says that the issues plaguing the Republican Party are bigger than those two extremist minority constituencies. You must've misread. I suppose that the dog whose tail has been stepped on several times in the recent past may snap at you if you even walk close to him.