Noonan made a very public the fact that she was resigning her job at the WSJ to volunteer her services as a speech writer to the Bush re-election effort. She went to DC and evidently was turned down, because she was soon back in NY.
You can look it up, she wrote in the WSJ all about it.
I’ve skimmed through Peggy Noonan’s articles from that period (August 2004 through Jan. 2005). Of course she mentions that she is taking a leave of absence from the WSJ. She does not mention getting turned down for any job with the Bush Administration. Please let me know if I have missed something.
I suppose what irritates me about the line of reasoning is the assumption that someone must have a personal vendetta in order to disagree with Our Guy, and she is allowing that vendetta to interfere with her writing in a unprofessional manner.
It is entirely possible (maybe even likely) that Ms. Noonan is a person of integrity and is simply expressing her true views. Perhaps we should deal with the charges on the merits.