Why Peggy Noonan Is The Real Winner Of The Democratic Primary

Women's Wear Daily via Huffington Post
June 20, 2008

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/20/why-peggy-noonan-is-the-r_n_108371.html

Excerpt:

But in 2005, Noonan broke with President George W. Bush's administration over the Iraq war, among other things, and it gave her an air of cross-partisan credibility going into the current presidential season. Then, as Clinton stumbled in the Democratic primaries, Noonan found herself being embraced by an unlikely coalition of Obama supporters and disaffected Republicans to whom she was no longer a boilerplate conservative, but an iconoclast who'd turned on President Bush and been vindicated by anti-Clinton sentiment that was growing among Democrats. What's more, being a woman gave Noonan a freedom to write critically about Clinton with little risk of being labeled sexist by the senator's supporters.

"With Peggy Noonan, not only did I share many of her views about the election, I felt she was coming at it in a fair-minded way," says New York Magazine columnist and Obama supporter Kurt Andersen. "It wasn't like Bill Kristol, who you know what he's going to say before he says it."

"This moment was made for her," Stephanopoulos says by phone. "She has a special feel for Hillary, though I'm sure it's not one Clinton supporters always appreciate. And she's had tremendous insight into what has been a troubled period for the Republican party. It gave her an opportunity to show some independence."

Read rest:
http://wwd.com/issue/article/125874

"special fear"
Do not trust this woman.

Her Clinton obsession is borderline, but Arianna Huffington herself was serving the forces of evil at one time too, and she came around. We'll see.

Thanks for posting. The whole article is 9 pages and is quite well-written and interesting.