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.”
Noodles is a sniveling Tw**!
No Peg ... STFU!
she only shows up to pound Romney.
In 10 years she’ll be a red haired Helen Thomas.
Sad what liberalism does to people.
Piggy should go back to scratching at Palin’s eyes, or something...
If Romney relies on the likes of Piggy and her Manhattan liberal users for advice, he’s toast anyway.
Peggy loves to display her wisdom and responses like this keep her name on the ‘call list’. Otherwise, she adds very little to any intelligent discussion. Phooey on her!
Oh please, this wasn’t even close to what happened on 9/11/01.
Mitt had every right to speak out.
Peggy, BS. I thought Romney sounded strong and presidential, while Obama sounded weak. I think it helped him.
Peggy Whooner?
Around 1989, Peggy got a divorce and moved to NYC. She’s been going left ever since. And 23 years of moving left has left her incapable of clear moral thinking.
Back in the President Ronald Wilson Reagan days, I had half a crush on Peggy Noonan, because of something about her looks, and because she wrote and spoke as though she actually posessed a brain.
She has not aged well. She looks like satan’s crazy aunt, and her writings and statements sound too much like Juan Williams most of the time!
Quite correct. Here "wisdom" on display.
Peggy Noonan, October 31, 2008 - "The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes:
He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122539802263585317.html
Peggy does herself “no favors in the last few hours”, quick to jump in against Romney, when “few words, or no words” from her would suffice. Afterall, many are relieved to see Romney finally show some chest against foreign enemies.
Noonan is no conservative, let alone a top conservative. She’s a lonely woman with a pen.
I heard her this morning, and wasn’t suprised, because she voted for the emptychair.
She was giving red meat to the Obama side...her ploy worked.
DeSousa is on Lou Dobbs now.
Is conservative Peggy Noonan an oxymoron, or just a moron?
Exactly. Peggy makes comments like this so that she will get some TV time once in a while.
Total nonsense. Democrats are the ones who need to learn to restrain themselves!!!
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