Noonan is an ASS, right from the title, "The Democrats' Soft Extremism" -- soft? SOFT?! -- through her "love" for Joe Bite-me, to near end, "... maybe a sense the Democrats were extreme will take hold."
*Were* extreme? They ARE extreme. Noonan's not going to say it outright, though. She's one of the Republican Party's "tone" people.