[GSlob]

Ann already is. Ditto for Kemp and Weber. In every profession there is an acme period. For theoretical physicists, for example, it is their late 20s and 30s. The same notion, but with different numbers, applies to the PR types like Peggy and Ann, to [retired] politicians and think-tankers like Kemp and Gingrich, and so forth. There is nothing either ugly or chauvinistic in all of this - just a statement of the fact. One of the earlier records [1463] of the same concept was Villon's "lament of the fair armoress", where an old prostitute rued the passage of years.

[restornu]

Pardon me all but this man is a pig!

[TAdams8591]

"Ann already is."

No she's not, and she's got a ways to go. Plenty of the infuential people in the conservative movement are YEARS older than she is, some of them having gotten started in their late forties, early fifties. It is in fact, one of the fields where one's age is not as important.

[JCEccles]

Peggy Noonan is a wonderful, powerful stylist. It is quite unlikely that she will be Romney's only speech writer. It is more likely that she will be in charge of a group of speech writers. She will help select them and will contribute to the final result. That's where her incomparable experience as Reagan's speech writer will make a difference: in finding and shaping new speech writing talent and polishing the final products.

This was a great coup for Romney.