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[[Image:Peggy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Peggy Noonan]] '''Peggy Noonan''' (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]) is a columnist for The [[Wall Street Journal]] and best selling [[author]] of eight [[book]]s mostly on [[politics]] and [[religion]]. Her columns have also appeared in [[Forbes]], [[Time]], [[Newsweek]], the [[Washington Post]], [[Wall Street Journal]] and the [[New York Times]].<ref>[http://www.peggynoonan.com/biography.php PeggyNoonan.com: Biography]</ref>  

[[Image:Peggy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Peggy Noonan]] '''Peggy Noonan''' (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]) is a columnist for The [[Wall Street Journal]] and best selling [[author]] of eight [[book]]s mostly on [[politics]] and [[religion]]. Her columns have also appeared in [[Forbes]], [[Time]], [[Newsweek]], the [[Washington Post]], ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' and the ''[[New York Times]]''.<ref>[http://www.peggynoonan.com/biography.php PeggyNoonan.com: Biography]</ref>  

Noonan holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, [[Miami University]], and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. After serving as a producer for [[CBS News]], she worked as a speech writer for [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[administration]]. She wrote Reagan's famous 1986 speech after the [[Space]] Shuttle Challenger disaster. During the 1988 Presidential Election she also wrote memorable phrases for then-[[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."  

Noonan holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, [[Miami University]], and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. After serving as a producer for ''[[CBS News]]'', she worked as a speech writer for [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[administration]]. She wrote Reagan's famous 1986 speech after the [[Space]] Shuttle Challenger disaster. During the 1988 Presidential Election she also wrote memorable phrases for then-[[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."  

In 2008 she criticized [[John McCain]]'s choice of [[Sarah Palin]] for vice president. In an opinion piece, she railed against Palin as too inexperienced. In September 2012, after several post-convention setbacks in the campaign of Republican candidate [[Mitt Romney]], she described his campaign management as "incompetent" and a "rolling calamity"

In 2008 she criticized [[John McCain]]'s choice of [[Sarah Palin]] for vice president. In an opinion piece, she railed against Palin as too inexperienced. In September 2012, after several post-convention setbacks in the campaign of Republican candidate [[Mitt Romney]], she described his campaign management as "incompetent" and a "rolling calamity"