I know what many of you splendid readers are thinking: Hey, Campaign Outsider! Where you been the past few years – a Pacific island? Peggy Noonan jumped the shark like the Jets in “West Side Story” years ago.

Well, if not a Pacific island, I’ve certainly been on the fringes the past few years. For my money Noonan did a solid job chewing over the 2008 presidential election. (Brian Williams thought she should get a Pulitzer, and – full disclosure – I agreed).

But Noonan became boring and predictable after Barack Obama won, and now that things have heated up, she’s become boring and ridiculous.

Exhibit A: Saturday’s Wall Street Journal column, in which she dismisses the Obama administration’s “flakes” and handwrings over the rest of his personnel decisions.

A greater concern about President Obama’s staffers and appointees is that so many of them are so young and relatively untried. And not only young and untried, but triumphant.

But wait. It gets worse.

Now nothing can stop them, Let’s do big things, let’s be consequential. Consequentialism has been the blight of America’s political life for a decade. Because of it, America’s nerves have been rubbed raw.

Translation: George W. Bush was a crappy president.

But here’s where Noonan not only jumps, but pole-vaults, the shark:

Why be concerned about the young in the White House? Because they’ve never been beaten up by life, never been defeated. They haven’t learned from failure because they haven’t experienced it. They don’t know what the warning signs of trouble are. They haven’t spent time on the losing side.

Let’s make one thing clear: Peggy Noonan doesn’t know a goddam thing about the lives of the White House personnel. They’ve never been beaten up by life, never been defeated? How the hell would Noonan know? She lives in PeggyWorld, where everything fits into neat PeggyHoles.

Not to mention the parallels between the Obamachiks and – wait for it –  Noonan herself.

According to one Noonan bio:

Born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Peggy Noonan got her start in journalism as a newswriter for the graveyard shift at WEEI-AM Radio in Boston. She was promoted to editorial and public affairs director and won the Tom Phillips Award for broadcast commentary. She then worked for Dan Rather at CBS News in New York, writing and producing daily commentary for CBS Radio.

And then, at the ripe old age of 34, Noonan went to work as a speechwriter in for Ronald Reagan, who’d just won a second term in the landslide 1984 presidential election.

Think Noonan was “young and relatively untried?” Think the Reagan White House was “triumphant?’

Yeah, me too.