Riding Ron's Coattails

Peggy Noonan, the 72-year-old columnist for the Wall Street Journal, has been around the block, that's for sure, but in my opinion, she's lost it. For quite some time her political meanderings have been lackadaisical, redundant or just plain boring. My husband likes to read her while we're soaking in the hot tub, but these past few weeks we've started and stopped after a couple of paragraphs. 

Clearly out of ideas, Peggy often devotes many of her column inches to nostalgic looks back at her illustrious  career and excerpts from books or speeches from others. Today Peggy aims to grab more readers with the title, "Ron DeSantis Is Definitely Running." (Duh, you think?) 

Lots of it concerns the governor's new book, "The Courage to Be Free." Peggy quotes from the book as well as from several recent speeches by DeSantis, snidely criticizing between the lines. She notes that when DeSantis is pictured signing bills, "Often he is surrounded, oddly, by grade-school children." Uh-oh, should we be worried? Is he odd with kids? (Well, he was signing the Parental Rights in Education Act.)

Peggy ends with two pieces of advice for the governor. First, he has to connect with the voters out on the campaign trail, something he probably never thought of himself.  Next, he has to share his thinking with the voters. You know, all those voters who couldn't care less and just press D for Democrat or R for Republican. After Ron digests those valuable bits of wisdom, maybe he can offer Peggy some advice concerning her career, since she could use some. Mine is simple: She should take the title of Ron's book to heart, be brave, and then hand in her resignation and free herself, and her readers! I'm sure there are many writers out there with fresh ideas who could help us deal with it.