The latest “Declarations” by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal analyzing the GOP presidential race are marked by two of MoDo’s signature ticks — the kludgey pop culture reference (in this case, The Godfather, casting Sen. John McCain as Moe Greene and Mitt Romney as Michael Corleone) and a disjointed mental mish-mash that is equal parts nonsense and trite conventional wisdom. For example, Noonan writes: If you go by the Florida returns, maybe this year positions

First off, Lumpy: turns out that what my primary physician thought was a lipoma is actually calcification and bone fragment around what is a broken rib on the mend. At least, that’s what the MRI shows. A CT scan would give us a better idea, but for the time being, my doctor and I are just content to lay back and let the thing heal. So, a welcome relief, just