Peggy Noonan Channels Dead Senator; Hilarity Ensues.

Today, former Reagan speech-writer and current rhetorical fabulist Peggy Noonan drank some port wine, put down her pen, picked up her Ouija board, and talked to spirits.

Not just any spirits, mind you; a very specific one. That of long-deceased Senator Robert Taft, who Noonan assures us is one of the five wisest owls of all time — right “up there with Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.”

And what does the wraith of Taft whisper into Peggy’s eager ear? A lot, not unpredictably.

Remember, this is all made up:

“The GOP will not be a victorious national party in the future without the tea party. The tea party needs the infrastructure, tradition, capabilities -— the car -— in order to function as a fully coherent and effective national entity. Their policy aims, while somewhat inchoate, seem on the right track. They need to be clearer about what they’re for —-intellectually more ordered. They can’t lead with their hearts.”

So the Tea Party’s primary weakness isn’t extremism in the face of electoral resistance, or dirt-poor strategy, or marketing optics. It’s clarity.

But let’s allow the Taft/Noonan spook-fest to get up on its hind legs. How should the establishment GOP handle its bat-crazy rump?

Go, Peggy:

“Wake up and smell the Sanka! Listen, reason, talk. Advise in friendship. Be open to debate and get broader, ask yourself questions. Deep down, do you patronize those innocents on the farms, in the hinterlands? Or perhaps you understand yourself to be a fat, happy mosquito on the pond scum that is them? You had better get a mind adjustment on that, and soon. You’re better than nobody. You had a good ride for 30 years. Now you’re going to have to work for it.”

Coming soon: Peggy Noonan: Writing Better Than Nobody, For Someone Who’s Dead.

By: rhb

Rob is a NYC-based Internet entrepreneur. He's also a businessman and job creator (wait: doesn't demand create jobs?) who understands the sense, and the eventual predominance, of the progressive agenda.