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.”
No mention of the fact that this supposed “conservative” supported Barack Obama in 2008, as did Kathleen Parker, Christopher Buckley, Colin Powell and other RINOs.
“But Romney’s effort to politicize the violence in Libya was met with blowback not just from the Obama administration but from the media.”
Wow - that’s a shocker. Mitt mans up and says all the right things, and the Lefties use the opportunity to slam him.
What a surprise.
Meanwhile, Hussein the Vapid continues to kiss Arab *ss.
She’s been pushed back into the closet, but she’s still an Obama supporter at heart. She must prefer the Manhattan cocktail parties that the ‘rats throw or something.
I hope “President Romney” allows a press conference once a week! making Obama look like a fool who hates taking questions...what a total baffoon of a leader!
Shaddap Peg. We still think you’re a dope.
Noonan is full of it!!!!!!!!!!!
Shut the **** up, Peggy, and get out of my country.
Puh..leez. Noonan and conservative are two words that don't belong together. Haven't seen her on Fox in a long time and now she shows up?
I saw her spouting this cr@p on FNC this AM . I wanted to stuff one of my hubbies’ dirty sox in her mouth .
Peggy Noonan is a “Ronald Prescott Reagan” Democrat, right?
He did not “politicize the violence in Libya” - he was responding to the ridiculous statement put out by the Egyptian embassy seeming to be apologizing to the attackers.
Isn’t Peggy Noonan as dead as Al Hunt???
She sickens me, the way that Scarborough does. They are has-beens who are in the tank with the rest of the MSM for the money; nothing else.
I guess jetting off to campaign in Vegas and then going on the David Letterman show is presidential.
I think the upcoming election is so critical that these commentators like Noonan have a choice to make.
Keep your mouth shut and support our candidate because moving out Obama is critical. Or they can continue to ingratiate themselves to the mainstream media by offering pithy commentary against our candidate, which by definition ends up being pro-obama.
David Brooks, David Gergen, Mary Matalin, Noonan and perhaps (shudder) Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. All of them seem to value their cocktail party standing in DC than saving the country.
Flash back to 2008 and the manufactured financial crisis and the purple lipped prince was all over the news...they all effin’ wanted to know what the messiah thought...and ate it like vultures to dead, rotting, nasty, stinking, molding meat (I’m just sayin’).
Peggy Inside the Beltway Noonan.
That's the truth.
I used to read a lot of Noonan in the 1990s and 2000s. But she changed after the Bush 2004 campaign turned down her offer to work for the team.
Noonan is a throw-back to the old days of non-confrontational Republicans. Did I just say "old days?" That sounds just like today's Republicans, too.
-PJ
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