49erDweet:
S-hb, If by “blacks” you mean [what I call] “professional blacks”, I agree. Many blacks I know are not of that ilk, and are more and more troubled with the recent ugliness unleashed by BHO and his staff.

Not “more and more troubled” enough to not see blacks vote 95-1 for Obama and against McCain.

Republicans can hope to get more blacks, – but frankly their prospects are much better with Latinos, Asians and even Jews in the future. Practically, you write the black vote off to Dems, and work to get other groups in the middle to swing more to the Reps. Already the Hispanic population and donations exceed blacks, and their vote stength will exceed blacks by 2010.

“It’s over,” said Noonan, and 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 bullsh** about narratives,” she said. “Every time Republicans do that … because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at and they blow it.”

Noonan is part of the faction that believes McCain did a high risk selection with inadequate vetting. If Palin goes out and appears like a babe out of the woods, or more baggage is uncovered, McCain goes down on poor judgment. That is her fear, and the chance she may be right and it hurts the Republicans more than helps are higher than the Palin partisans care to admit. And if her selection dooms McCain, the post mortem on how Johnny poked the pootch will go just as Noonan says. Noonan is no intellectual dwarf. She writes on WSJ for a reason. Both her and her peer Dorothy Rabinowitz are smart as hell and great writers.