Sarah Palin gives passive aggressive endorsement to a Peggy Noonan column.

This from the "Queen of Holding Grudges" Facebook page:  

Great article, Peggy, but where the heck were you when I and other commonsense conservatives were sounding the warning bell in '08? You joined the "cool kids" in mocking and condescendingly criticizing -- ultimately demanding that we "sit down and shut up." Better late than never, though, Peggy and your ilk, because, meanwhile back in America... 

Oooh, snippy!

I don't have an account with the Wall Street Journal so I can't see the article she is alluding to, but here is how Politico described it:  

Palin was presumably referring to Noonan's remarks in a series of interviews last fall, during which she accused tea party conservatives of trying to "topple" the GOP and said they needed to stop name-calling and work out their differences with establishment Republicans. 

In Friday's column, titled "Meanwhile, Back in America...", Noonan called President Obama's State of the Union address "a spectacle of delusion and self-congratulation" that failed to address the true concerns of most Americans. According to Noonan, those concerns include the fate of the school voucher program, the IRS's targeting of conservatives and the plight of nuns who "have, quite cruelly, been told they must comply with the ObamaCare mandate that all insurance coverage include contraceptives, sterilization procedures, morning-after pills."

Of course Noonan is a well known Right Wing hack so I do not give her article much credibility, and if Palin kinda sorta endorsed it then it deserves even less as far as I am concerned.

However I DO remember a time when Noonan was right on the money back in 2009:

In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm. 

In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.

Oh yeah, that's the stuff.

And then there was this moment caught on an NBC open mic back in September 2008, right after McCain picked Palin: 

After a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mike ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin. 

"It's over," said Noonan, who then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen. 

"The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives," she said. "Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it." 

Murphy chimed in: 

"The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."

You know it must have really burned Palin's ass to give Noonan even that bitchy hat tip today, because as we know a Palin never forgives.

Unless of course it was the work of a soon to be kicked to the curb ghostwriter.