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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How many practicing conservative women do you know?
And THIS is why we are going to keep getting beat. What Noonan said was spot on. Romney is a disaster. but, oh no . . .let’s fix it y saying she’s not a real conservative.
Maybe she is, maybe she isn’t, but the problem with the feckless, idiotic, Romney remains.
While I obviously agree that Noonan isn’t worthing thinking a whit about when it comes to conservative thought, I cannot help but yell “Pot...Meet....Kettle”...
Chris Wallace is nothing but a political double agent when it comes to conservative vs. liberal.
He’s a friggin liberal just like his scoundrel daddy - Mike Wallace. Screw him...appeasing collaborator saboteur...
Never a conservative, never open and honest...Always calculating, always deceptive.
Don’t believe a word he says.
She had an affair with Jeff Greenfield. No one who has ever seen Jeff Greenfield naked is a conservative.
I doubt Noonan’s sanity.
The problem isn't that she's bashed Bush, McCain and Romney; everybody on this board does that with great frequency and gusto.
The problem is with why she's bashed them. Her latest column literally screams: "I need a Daddy for President. I need someone to take care of me." Her columns have become nothing more than breathy supplications unworthy of an adult, let alone a supposed conservative.
There's a devastating critique of Peggy here: http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/peggy-noonans-looking-for-mr-big/. Well worth a read.
She sounds like a conservative to me.
And is a huge fan of 0bama. Still sound like a "conservative" to you?
Deb just won the thread.
Peggy Noonan is a piece of sh**. She voted for Ubama. Where you been? Noonan also got her claws out like a teenage Valley Girl and tried to scratch at Sara Palin's eyes, all because Palin is prettier, younger, and more accomplished than she will ever be. Ping me when Noonan goes after the scumbag communist Democrats the way she goes after Republicans.
Seems you have no understanding of the word "conservative".
So like Noonan you agree Obama has been great as President.
Did you vote for him like she did in 2008?
Ya think?
“She had an affair with Jeff Greenfield.”
I bet he had to burn the truck seats after that.
People change and often deceive themselves that they have. I believe Noonan is one of those.
My brother, who introduced me to Rush Limbaugh, married a Chicago teacher and before I knew it he was trying to convince me to vote Obama. His wife I expected, him? You could of knocked me over with a feather. He pretended to me he was considering Romney but I could tell from his rhetoric he was pulling the lever for the one.
People change and you don’t always know why. In my brother’s case I suspect it was a cold shoulder in the bed.
You make a lot of good points. I think Peggy wants to be solicited for her opinion, to be paid to write speeches and to be invited to all the right parties. That’s it. There’s no there there.
She could be a Rangers fan and I’d never know it. Is she on TV or something?
“Does anyone around here think McCain is a conservative?”
No, but he is compared to Obama for whom Noonan dragged out her kneepads in ‘08 and is again in ‘12.
We owe here NOTHING. Not a damned thing. Reagan had his own philosophy. She did not create it. In some instances she put his beliefs into words, like an ad writer. She’s given little to no clue that she herself believes in Reagan’s philosophy. If she did, she’d never get invited to all those swell Manhattan cocktail parties.
-PJ
A year or so ago, my husband and I were at a Broadway play and I turned to my husband and said (apparently not so sotto voce) “Oh, there’s Peggy Noonan.” My husband turned around and spotted her as well. He then said: “She heard you. She’s preening all over the place.”
Big deal. So do we.
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