Posted on 09/12/2012 4:00:50 PM PDT by Red Steel
The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan is criticizing Mitt Romney’s response to the death of a U.S. diplomat in Libya, telling Fox News today she doesn’t feel that the Republican presidential nominee “has been doing himself any favors” in the past few hours.
“I was thinking as he spoke, I think I belong to the old school of thinking that in times of great drama and heightened crisis, and in times when something violent has happened to your people, I always think discretion is the better way to go,” Noonan said. “When you step forward in the midst of a political environment and start giving statements on something dramatic and violent that has happened, you're always leaving yourself open to accusations that you are trying to exploit things politically.”
In a statement last night, Romney slammed the Obama administration for sympathizing "with those who waged the attacks" rather than condemning the attacks outright. Romney doubled-down on that attack today during a press conference, telling reporters the statement was “akin to apology" and that it was “disgraceful to apologize for American values.”
But Romney's effort to politicize the violence in Libya was met with blowback not just from the Obama administration but from the media. "[Romney's] doubling down on criticism... is likely to be seen as one of the most craven and ill-advised tactical moves in this entire campaign," Time magazine's Mark Halperin wrote on his blog.
Noonan's criticism delivers a harder blow, however, coming as it does from high within the ranks of the conservative establishment. Indeed, it is just the latest in a string of criticisms Romney has faced from the right's most influential media outlets in recent days, including The Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Weekly Standard.
“I don't feel that Mr. Romney has been doing himself any favors, say in the past few hours, perhaps since last night,” Noonan told Fox News. “Sometimes when really bad things happen, when hot things happen, cool words or no words is the way to go.”
Peggy Loonan was gushing all over Obama after he got elected. She is a moron who tries to maintain credibility because she wrote a few speeches for Reagan.
Hey, Peg - you stupid git - just become a Democrat. You’re not fooling anyone.
“Conservative” Peggy Noonan praised Obama to high heaven when he was elected. She said what a wonderful thing it was to elect a black man. Made no difference to her that he was the most pro-abortion candidate in American history. She didn’t care. This is the same Peggy Noonan who is supposed to be a staunch repubican, a devout Catholic, one who wrote most of Reagan’s speeches. She had definitely taken a liberal turn in the last few years. I suspect she voted for her hero.
A very astute observation, my FRiend!!!
‘You stupid f*cking c*nt.’
—Glengarry GlenRoss
I never get tired of that scene.
She has a PR business?
I hope all Republicans will boycott it.
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