Who is Peggy Noonan and why should any of us care what she thinks of Sarah Palin?
Oh didn't you know, she is a very powerful force in the Republican party now. Entire threads are dedicated to what she has to say about Palin.
That explains why I don't know the name.
I try to avoid listening to talking heads of either persuasion.
Seriously? She is more famous than just your typical talking head. She wrote some of Reagan's better speeches, and also the thousand points of light speech for Bush 41. Or parts of it.
In 1984, Noonan, as a speechwriter for President Reagan, authored his "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech on the 40th anniversary of D-day. She also wrote Reagan's address to the nation after the Challenger explosion, drawing upon the poet John Magee's famous words about aviators who "slipped the surly bonds of earth... and touched the face of God." She worked too on a tribute Reagan gave to honor John F. Kennedy, at a fundraising event, held at the McLean, Virginia home of Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the spring of 1984.
Later, while working for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, Noonan coined the phrase "a kinder, gentler nation" and also popularized "a thousand points of light", two memorable catchphrases used by Bush. Noonan also wrote the speech in which Bush pledged: "Read my lips: no new taxes" during his 1988 presidential nomination acceptance speech in New Orleans (Bush's subsequent reversal of this pledge is often cited as a reason for his defeat in his 1992 re-election campaign).
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