the country." Such commentary resulted in a backlash from many conservatives.
In one opinion piece, Noonan expressed her view that Palin did not demonstrate "the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office," concluding that Palin's candidacy marked a "vulgarization in American Politics" that is "no good. Bush's reelection.ĭuring the 2008 presidential campaign, Noonan wrote about Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy in The Wall Street Journal. In mid-August 2004, Noonan took a brief unpaid leave from The Wall Street Journal to campaign for George W. Noonan worked as a consultant on the American television drama The West Wing. In 1995, Noonan received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris. Bush's subsequent reversal of this pledge is often cited as a major reason for his defeat in his 1992 re-election campaign. Noonan also wrote Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, in which he pledged: " Read my lips: no new taxes". Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, Noonan coined the phrase "a kinder, gentler nation" and also popularized "a thousand points of light", two memorable catchphrases used by Bush. Later, while working for then Vice President George H. W. Kennedy at a fundraising event held at the McLean, Virginia, home of Senator Edward M. She also worked on a tribute Reagan gave to honor President John F. The "Pointe du Hoc" speech ranks as the 58th best speech of the century, according to the website American Rhetoric. and touched the face of God." The latter is ranked as the eighth best American political speech of the 20th century, according to a list compiled by professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Texas A&M University. She also wrote Reagan's address to the nation after the Challenger explosion, drawing upon the poet John Magee's words about aviators who "slipped the surly bonds of earth . In 1984, Noonan, as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, authored his "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. Noonan meeting with President Ronald Reagan in 1988
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