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Chris Wallace doubts Noonan's conservatism
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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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To: AppyPappy

I know some of you still cannot get over your crush on Peggy because she worked for Reagan 30 years ago.

Too bad she has totally betrayed everything Reagan stood for since


41 posted on 09/21/2012 11:48:31 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Too right.

Noonan's speechwriting for Reagan was an example of "automatic writing." The words were nice, but she had no actual connection to the content thereof.

National Review's savage review of her What I Saw at The Revolution said it best. "How is it possible a person could have written the things she has, and have so little apparent understanding of what they meant?"

In recent years, the disconnection between her mind and the typewriter have become increasingly apparent, and her columns verge on the unhinged.

42 posted on 09/21/2012 11:50:02 AM PDT by FredZarguna (47% were insulted. And they should have been.)
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To: Lancey Howard
Noonan, if I remember correctly, called The Divine Sarah “vulgar.” What a jealous cat!
43 posted on 09/21/2012 11:50:14 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: AppyPappy

It wasn’t pretty.


44 posted on 09/21/2012 11:50:27 AM PDT by Deb (If you wanna laugh everyday, follow Deepak Chopra on Twitter)
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To: Lancey Howard
Noonan, if I remember correctly, called The Divine Sarah “vulgar.” What a jealous cat!
45 posted on 09/21/2012 11:51:21 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I don’t think of Kristol or the rest as conservatives, either. When I think “conservative” I’m thinking Thomas Sowell, or others equally solid (but less talented) than him.
And being a ‘Pubbie doesn’t make you a conservative, as various Congresscritters and other elected officials have amply demonstrated to us.


46 posted on 09/21/2012 11:52:06 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This uppity beotch called my girl Sarah a ‘nincompoop’ a few years ago. I’ve been done with her long ago!


47 posted on 09/21/2012 11:52:06 AM PDT by MadelineZapeezda ("Paul Ryan is the intellectual epicenter of the Republican Party'...Allen West)
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To: Sub-Driver; All
It is most definitely time for an oldie, but classic Iowahawk Van Vorhees column (with the Dame Peggy reference) ...

It's that easy-going, almost effortless grace that has all the A-list conservatives like David Frum and Kathleen Parker whispering Reaganesque in hushed tones. Even Peggy Noonan -- the Grand Dame of Gipperism -- has succumbed to Obama's undeniable conservative charms. Just last month I listened to her wax poetic about the Adonis of Chicago between chukkers at the Newport Club polo tournament final. "Why Peggy, you old dowager," I quipped, "I believe you just had an orgasm."

48 posted on 09/21/2012 11:54:59 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Deb
Howdy Doody: "If I had a dummy, he'd look like Jeff Greenfield."
49 posted on 09/21/2012 11:58:36 AM PDT by FredZarguna (And if Howdy Doody had a dad, he'd look like Ted Koppel.)
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To: Deb
You ALWAYS have a way of getting to the heart of the matter!

p.s. please note the classic Iowahawk column from 2008 at post 48. Hilarious!

50 posted on 09/21/2012 11:58:51 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Sub-Driver

If she’s a conservative, I’m the best-looking and richest guy in Colorado. In simple terms: she’s at best a RINO and probably a Democratic [sic] party voter.


51 posted on 09/21/2012 11:59:01 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: AppyPappy

She also never based a Democrat.


52 posted on 09/21/2012 12:17:14 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: RIghtwardHo
Troll ---> RIghtwardHO
53 posted on 09/21/2012 12:25:59 PM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: Sub-Driver

If Peggy Noonan is a “Conservative,” then what is she trying to conserve?


54 posted on 09/21/2012 12:29:28 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Reagan got his message across long before Noonan came onto the scene. She may have helped write some of his speeches, but now I bet her words are the ones Reagan crossed out and substituted his own.
55 posted on 09/21/2012 12:35:37 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Sub-Driver

Duh....she voted for the Marxist in’08. What tipped you off, Chris?


56 posted on 09/21/2012 12:40:05 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Servant of the Cross

Good one.


57 posted on 09/21/2012 12:40:41 PM PDT by Deb (If you wanna laugh everyday, follow Deepak Chopra on Twitter)
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To: Sub-Driver

Chris is smarter than he looks.


58 posted on 09/21/2012 12:56:06 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Lancey Howard

I remember Noonan’s appearances on “Hannity and Colmes.” She would sit between the two of them, tossing her hair, batting her eyes, desperately trying to behave like a cheerleader instead of the pathetic, long-in-the-tooth old broad she was. It was cringeworthy to watch.


59 posted on 09/21/2012 1:29:21 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: pogo101
Deb just won the thread.

She's held the title for fourteen years.

60 posted on 09/21/2012 1:43:46 PM PDT by eddie willers
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