Noonan

Several  years ago, I sat through a somewhat annoying program at the John Paul II auditorium in Vatican City moderated by Peggy Noonan.

Noonan embarrassed the Cardinal in attendance by repeatedly referring to the living Pope as a Saint. She was clearly off base and a young monk sitting near me said so.

Noonan has worn her Catholicism on her sleeve in books and in appearances.

Now this public Catholic has come full circle. She has endorsed Barak Obama for President.

I guess her conscience compelled her to fleetingly address Obama's abortion stance. But even here she pulls her punches. She does not mention that Obama supports partial-birth abortions, the barbaric killing of humans. Instead she chastises him for being too much of an intellectual when he said that the abortion question was above his pay grade.

In her endorsement, she declares that liberalism has triumphed (while on the same page Democrat Doug Schoen argues that Obama's victory is not a mandate for specific change) and she paints a most unflattering personal picture of McCain.

I know people who worked with Noonan in the White House who accused her of  taking credit for work others had done. Now, out on her own she seems like a valueless political pundit who is throwing Reaganism out the window.

Don't be surprised if she is the first "conservative" to interview Obama, if he wins.