To throw some facts into the discussion, Peggy Noonan wrote very little for George Bush the Elder. She worked for him on the 1988 campaign, she may have written his Inaugural (I don't remember), but she was never hired in his White House. Oh, and she was very good for George H.W. Bush when she wrote his acceptance speech. It was a good speech - some say his best - and has always been considered very helpful to Bush's presidential bid. It is, incidentally, one of the few speeches he gave that anyone remembers.
Oh yes, memorable as the often ridiculed thousand points of light......midnight basketball and all that garbagola.