Dowd is very much a creature of the Clinton years. The only time anything she writes gets wider play is when she says something negative about a Democrat. It's the "even the liberal Maureen Dowd says . . . "
Anything negative she says about McCain or Palin will be further evidence that Teh Libruls hate small town Americans, and that Real Americans have to elect McCain to teach Teh Libruls a lesson.
Posted by James E. Powell at September 14, 2008 12:20 PMWow. Just read the MoDo piece, and you took every word out of my mouth, Turkana.
Posted by Sharkbabe at September 14, 2008 12:21 PMFrom Dowd's column:
But now we may want to think about where ignorance and pride and no self-doubt has gotten us.
What do you mean 'we' Maureen?
Posted by James E. Powell at September 14, 2008 12:29 PMDamnit, Turkana, I was going to make endless fun of this on L'n'L, as MoDo deserves. Now I have to go pick off something not so easy.
Posted by idiosynchronic at September 14, 2008 01:08 PMSomeone wrote that all of Manhattan needs to get together and have an intervention for Mo. She needs help.
Posted by jmac at September 14, 2008 02:21 PMSo...if Obami had picked Hillary...would that have been "cynical or political"?
Posted by jj at September 14, 2008 03:19 PMI know that a blog of differing opinions is poison here, but you might want to look at powerlineblog.com first story.
I called a relative up there and he said that poll is coming from the Mpls paper (Star Tribune) which is historically greatly slanted to Democrats.
One of two things...they are calling it what they can.. they can put the best face on it...meaning McCain is actually up several...or they called the wrong folks.
What the hell is happening..Minnesota?
Posted by jj at September 14, 2008 03:36 PMjj,
i'm not surprised that you can't discern the difference in intelligence, experience, and qualification between clinton and palin. that's why you're a republican. because you can't discern.
Posted by Turkana at September 14, 2008 03:55 PM...can tooo...one made it on the coattails of her husband, the other one did not.
Posted by jj at September 14, 2008 03:57 PM...except that MoDo couldn't stop at criticizing Palin...she had to go on to say that Palin made Obama seem "wispy" and "egg-head"-like.
("Egghead" was the slur against Adlai Stevenson...the election where America picked a military man over a clearly smarter choice.)
It might be amusing to watch the "villagers" start to realize that they have created a monster that is now out of control---like the British Colonel in The Bridge Over the River Kwai, who mumbles "What have I done?", as the Japanese munitions train approaches his soldiers' handiwork.
Unfortunately for Dowd, she can't still blow up the bridge, nor would she have the courage to do so. So no redemption is possible.
But she needn't worry, the authoritarian Right will be happy to use her high "comedy" and mockery to advance their agenda; it's not like she has any integrity to protect.
Posted by euzoius at September 14, 2008 04:53 PMi'm not surprised that you can't discern the difference in intelligence, experience, and qualification between clinton and palin. that's why you're a republican. because you can't discern.
and turkana scores again!
Posted by the young Judith (tyj) at September 14, 2008 04:59 PMTurkana:
that's why you're a republican. because you can't discern.But they can discriminate . . Posted by idiosynchronic at September 14, 2008 05:33 PM
yes, jj-
one was valedictorian at wellesley, graduated from yale law school when few women even got in, was a senate staffer, and helped found the children's defense fund. the other doesn't even understand basic tenets of science. don't think too hard, jj, you might hurt yourself.
Posted by Turkana at September 14, 2008 05:48 PMGreat credentials... what a resume...sounds like Presidential material to me...you folks did nominate her did you not? No ??
Now really...not very smart eh?
Maybe next time.
Let's not stop with Dowd. So many people who should know better contributed to McCain's image as a maverick when in fact he is one of the most conservative voting members in Congress. The John Birch Society rates him in the 90s, yet John Stewart invited him on his show what, 10-12 times in the last few years. Too many pretend it doesn't matter that the guy votes extremely conservative across a range of issues, and prefer to mindlessly contribute to the "war hero" meme and hollywood maverick crap that seemingly worked to boost ratings without providing a shred of evidence all the while ignoring his voting record.
There are many people that have their hands dirty on this one.
See what happens when your party is better than the gop? A perfectly good candidate like Hillary falls short of the nomination and doesn't get picked for the VP position, and we have a perfectly excellent team, whereas, you pathetic ass, mccain has to pick a complete loser because they got nobody else to run.
What a pathetic bunch of lying assholes the gop is.
Posted by Duckman GR at September 14, 2008 07:28 PMWonderful...glad you are happy.
That "excellent team" gonna work out for you?
Posted by jj at September 15, 2008 03:09 AM