Posted on 09/21/2012 11:13:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Chris Wallace doubts Noonan's conservatism
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By PATRICK GAVIN and DYLAN BYERS | 9/21/12 11:43 AM EDT
In an interview with POLITICO today, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace questioned Peggy Noonan's "conservative bona fides," following her recent editorials criticizing of Mitt Romney's campaign.
"Peggy Noonan has bashed George W. Bush, based Mitt Romney, wasn't crazy about McCain. So, [her] conservative bona fides I'm not sure I take too seriously," Wallace told POLITICO's Patrick W. Gavin. "[Columnists] like Peggy Noonan, sometimes they're New York City's idea of conservatives."
Wallace's remarks come on the same day that Romney surrogate and former Gov. John Sununu criticized Noonan, a Wall Street Journal columnist, for her attacks on Romney, telling MSNBC, "I wouldn't hire Peggy Noonan to run a campaign."
In her column today, Noonan doubled-down on criticisms she made earlier in the week: "This week I called [the Romney campaign] incompetent, but only because I was being polite," she wrote. "I really meant "rolling calamity."
During today's interview, part of POLITICO's "Turn The Table" series, Gavin asked Wallace whether conservative opinion makers who have criticized Romney -- such as Noonan, David Brooks of The New York Times, and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol -- had influence on conservatives around the country or were simply participating in an "inside-the-Beltway parlor game."
"I think it's more of 'Inside-the-Beltway," Wallace said. "Some of the people you've mentioned, like Peggy Noonan, sometimes they're New York City's idea of conservatives. Kristol is a different deal. Kristol is a serious, movement conservative, and he never wanted Mitt Romney. He always wanted people of the next generation like Ryan, Rubio -- so I think he feels disappointed."
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yes ..me too
Can’t pull the wool over Wallace’s eyes. I have always thought she was a rat plant.
Noonan is too emotional for a political analyst.
Peggy Noonan makes me want to puke, and that would be true if she never criticized a republican. Some of these people are repulsive self obsessed elitists. Peggy is the epitamy.
How can anyone who voted for Obama be a conservative?
That’s okay. I doubt Chris Wallace’s journalism.
Peggy and Piglosi make quite a couple.
“Peggy Noonan has bashed George W. Bush, bashed Mitt Romney, wasn’t crazy about McCain. “
She sounds like a conservative to me.
Duh.
She may not agree with every conservative on every issue, but she is more solid than most.
And who do these nimnolds bring up in comparison? David Brooks??? Kristol??? And BTW, Noonan is right about Romney, was right about McCain and about GWB.
Romney is making a hash out of his campaign. If he wins it's only because his opponent is a complete failure.
McCain? Does anyone around here think McCain is a conservative? I thought we all called him McLame?
GWB? I know there are misguided true believers who still delude themselves into thinking that the compassionate crony capitalist was somehow a conservative just because he bombed Muslims, but wiser minds like Noonan know better.
I recall Noonan for the past 3 years regretting her support of Obama. But now that we are down to the last month, she’s back on the Obama train(wreck).
The guy is right on the money.
BTW- didn’t she vote for Obama?
Kristol is another Establihment Republican who doen’t have a clue about real conservatives and conservatism.
He considers those who oppose amnesty “yahoos”. He has spent his entire life, thanks to his father Irving, inside the Beltway mindset. He lives in a secluded million dollar plush home in tony McCLean, Virginia far from the struggling neighborhoods where real people wake up every day to a job requiring hard work, not a college dorm seminar BS session like the world where Kristol reports to every day. He has never had a real job or ever talked to real people. Taking his advice wouild not be a wise move.
Others like Noonan and Kathleen Parker have no values other than wanting to be accepted by the elites and bettin invited on their various forums and talk shows.
William Buckley had it right - the first 500 names in the phonebook have more wisdom, common sense, and real life experiences than the 500 people who currently populate the MSM, politics, and pundits.
When I see Peggy Noonan on TV she always talks like she’s balancing a plate on her head. I agree with Chris - - Noonan is a Manhattan “conservative”. I doubt she’s voted Republican since her job depended on it (ie., Reagan). Brooks is another one, simply an actor hired by the New York Times to play a “conservative” after Safire left. Nobody takes either of those two assclowns seriously. Romney would be a fool to give either of them the time of day.
Kristol is another matter. He’s a real conservative. I think he’s more akin to many freepers who have little use for Mittens except maybe as a placeholder to get rid of the steaming pantload Ubama.
Most Conservatives doubt her Conservatism.
Ever since she has parlayed her service to Reagan as a credential for her usually banal and sometimes offensive sniffing and huffing around the edges of the ruling class.
While she evidently fell loopy in love with Reagan, just as she did with Obama in 2008, there is no evidence that she has ever had any personal conservative leanings.
Noon is to newsprint what Bill O’Reilly is to tv. They are both way too impressed with themselves, intellectually under-endowed, and shallow.
For some reason all these speechwriters for Republican presidents get characterized as “conservatives”. Noonan has never been conservative, neither has David Frum or Michael Gerson. The media uses them when they want to trash real conservatives like the Tea Party or Sarah Palin.
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