Chris Wallace doubts Noonan's conservatism

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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."

[eddie willers]

Reagan had his own philosophy. She did not create it. In some instances she put his beliefs into words, like an ad writer

And the line for which she is most known was lifted from a WWII poem.

[NVDave]

Kristol is the walking embodiment of “neo-con.” He and his ilk don’t care about conservatism as it relates to the domestic situation in the US - all he cares about is that the US military is used to support and defend Israel.

Noonan was nothing more than speechwriter for Reagan. She’s never actually walked her words.

Brooks is a foppish little twerp who tries to play in the big leagues, but he’s found wanting at every turn - like David Frum.

The best thing that conservatives (real conservatives) could do is savage these impostors and leave them with no choice but to join the liberal side for once and for all and quit holding themselves forth in the media as “conservatives.”

[NVDave]

Kristol hasn’t ever done a damn thing in his life that merits the amount of attention paid to him. He’s just another damn Harvard graduate who has beshat himself upon the American public.

[Chunga]

You slay me. ROFL!!!