If you had read Novak’s autobiography “The Prince of Darkness” I think you would call him the thinking man’s conservative.
I don’t disagree with that statement.
His performance in the Plame nonsense was disappointing, however.
Like you, I enjoyed the biography very much.
I thought it put his actions during the Plame Game in better context. The guy was a defended of the Right when the list was very short and that ought to count for a lot of free passes on later, smaller, items.