PEGGY NOONAN: I wanna mention something that I think the Republicans are making a mistake on. The cumulative effect of what they say at their debates -- I love it that they're fighting and hitting each other over the head and occasionally addressing serious issues in a serious way. But the cumulative effect of the sort of harshness and even unlovingness of their rhetoric on immigration is gonna, in the end, hurt them. I also think the sort of severity and drama of their language on ISIS makes them look radical, do you know what I mean? As opposed to people --
JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Panicky? Like Panicky?
NOONAN: Not panicky, Jeffrey, but extreme. Do you know what I mean?
DAN BALZ: There's a belligerence to the talk.
NOONAN: Yes there is. That's actually the word.
BALZ: It goes beyond muscularity to belligerence.
NOONAN: Yes, and you don't have to be belligerent --
GOLDBERG: Or carpet bombing. I mean, you know, when you start talking about carpet bombing whole cities in response to a number of --
NOONAN: Yes, and turning deserts into glass and stuff like that. You can be very strong, very definitive, very seriousness but not use this harsh, severe, over-the-top rhetoric. It's misunderstanding their own base, I think.
