Good ol’ Doc Zero absolutely eviscerates elitist idiot Peggy Noonan:

Noonan could have used this column to praise Obama’s good judgement in hiring a deranged eugenicist who favors forced abortions and mass sterilization as his “science czar.” Why did she waste it pouring salt into Zombie Sarah Palin’s mouth and sewing her lips closed, so she could never rise from her political grave to threaten Republican voters again?

…It never occurs to Noonan that those “glimmers of actual secessionist movements” might be caused by freedom-loving people fleeing the “actual genius and true judgment” of the shady, unqualified junior senator she couldn’t wait to sweep into the White House. Hey, Peg, that “admission of bankruptcy” you’re quivering about? That’s coming because your boy Obama crashed the economy, looted the treasury of the future to serve the ultimate pork dinner to his faithful allies, and appointed fools and frauds to supervise his programs. He’s trying to pass a ludicrous energy plan that will cost each American family thousands of dollars, and guarantee a recession for decades to come. If America doesn’t rally to stop him in 2010, he’ll bury what’s left of the moribund economy under the bloodless husk of a nationalized health-care industry. If McCain had won in 2008, then immediately resigned for health reasons and left Palin in the White House, would she have cost us less than a trillion dollars? If so, she’d be a bargain compared to the nightmare Peggy Noonan helped to unleash.

Noonan is symptomatic of a defeated, collaborative wing of the GOP that wants nothing more than to be thought well of by the Left, which they believe has decisively won the political and cultural battles of the twentieth century. Their idea of a “conservative” is someone who can eke out a small discount on the price tag of mammoth liberal programs. Their goal in 2012 is to find a bland, pleasant, “moderate” Republican, who can win the approval of the media mullahs as a “serious candidate,” then lose gracefully and give America’s First Black President his second term. The idea of serious conservative reform terrifies them: radical overhaul of the tax system, dramatic reduction in the size of government, a system that compels Congress to live like humble servants of the people instead of Renaissance royalty… Who will throw those wonderful cocktail parties in Washington, if the conservatives burn half the city down? Who will tell Peggy bedtime stories of dashing social engineers with titanic government schemes? Where will she find hip, exciting statists she can celebrate with schoolgirl treacle, like this nonsense from her 2008 endorsement of Obama: “Something new is happening in America. It is the imminent arrival of a new liberal moment. History happens, it makes its turns, you hold on for dear life. Life moves.” She was on to something with that last bit. Obama has made a lot of American businesses think about moving.

Oof. I mean, just…oof. Also, ouch. A solid hook to a particularly flabby solar plexus, rhetorically speaking. Read the rest; Noonan has clearly outlasted her sell-by date, and needs to be taken off the shelf and tossed out with the rest of the RINO trash. Doc Zero, whoever he is, just gets better with each post — and he was damned good to start with.

Update! Think I’m kidding about my high regard for the Doc’s obvious skills, or overstating them? Well, think again:

This obsession with limited resources and zero-sum math runs through liberal economic theory. The amount of land and resources in the United States is fixed. The population keeps increasing. A limited pool of food, housing, medicine, and employment must be distributed among the population. Who else but a wise and benevolent state, run by highly educated and civic-minded liberals, could possibly manage that division in a fair and equitable manner? It certainly doesn’t make any sense to let a bunch of greedy rich guys parcel out the nation’s wealth. They’ll just keep it all for themselves.

You can find this kind of thinking behind every liberal policy. It is the electric current that leaps between the neurons of the socialist mind. Rich men “steal” their wealth from the rest of us – every dollar in a millionaire’s pocket is a dollar that he took from the deserving poor. The most infamous recent expression of this idea was Barack Obama’s unintentionally candid admission to Joe the Plumber, during the 2008 campaign, that he thought his job as President would be to “spread the wealth around.” The net worth of America is a fixed number in the minds of liberals. The only way they can imagine creating more wealth is to steal it from the future. The idea behind Obama’s reckless deficit spending is to inject a pile of cash into the heart of today’s moribund economy, and the only way to get the cash is to borrow it from foreign investors, and leave our children to settle the bills, plus interest, when they come due.

Two centuries of absolute failure have not dimmed the allure of Malthusian philosophy. It’s a failed idea because it overestimates the strain humanity places on the world, and underestimates the creativity and resourcefulness of free men and women. Viewing the rest of the human race as a virus flatters the liberal’s sense of superiority, because he has the superior wisdom to see those dwindling forests and shrinking oil reserves. He’s an enlightened steward of a fragile planet, not a primitive religious zealot rutting away in a trailer park, spawning the next generation of SUV drivers. He votes for politicians with detailed plans for redistributing wealth in the name of social justice… not corporate puppets selling fairy tales about opportunity and economic growth. The conservative bears witness to the wonder of human ingenuity, and the amazing possibilities that await even children born into humble circumstances. The liberal does not believe in such wonders.

That’s as good an entry-level summary of the core differences between us and them as I’ve seen anywhere. The liberal dream is actually a cramped, sweaty nightmare; they’re interested not in an optimistic vista of an ever-expanding future for all of us, but in tightening the bonds on each of us so that a dwindling, artificially-restricted prosperity can be “fairly” distributed between those who have earned their just rewards, and those of us who, for a variety of reasons (some of them actually good ones, in truth), refuse to. Their “utopia” is actually dystopian; their version of a perfect Eden is a tangled, impassable jungle of lowered expectations and stilted, mean ambition, ruled not by the strong and fit but by the weak, mendacious, and devious, and administered by incompetents whose only talent is for seeing to it that the fruits of human endeavor will lie rotting on the ground, untasted.