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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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
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.
It wasn’t pretty.
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.
This uppity beotch called my girl Sarah a ‘nincompoop’ a few years ago. I’ve been done with her long ago!
p.s. please note the classic Iowahawk column from 2008 at post 48. Hilarious!
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.
She also never based a Democrat.
If Peggy Noonan is a “Conservative,” then what is she trying to conserve?
Duh....she voted for the Marxist in’08. What tipped you off, Chris?
Good one.
Chris is smarter than he looks.
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.
She's held the title for fourteen years.
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