Maureen Dowd is a tired, weak, shatteringly insecure hack who hasn't had an original thought of her own in 20 years and who recycles the latest talking points of Drudge, etc., after she blends them with her own stew of innuendos, slander, lies and general misrepresentation. Plus her hair is ugly.
Also, I think the left needs to own this narrative: "speak for real Americans," "protect the rights of real Americans," "stand up for Americans," and take back those words from these insane Christianist ne0-fascist zealot ideologue mouthbreathing submorons, you feel me?
@If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Ironically, Dowd and Palin are of the same ilk--token females who aren't the best person for the job(s), but are given the job in order to maintain the patriarchal status quo: "See? Silly girls don't know how to get the job done!"
Douthat: "Both (Palin and Huckabee) came from lower-middle-class backgrounds, and joined a soft-edged social conservatism to a strong populist streak. "
What does "soft-edged" mean here? That they are to be applauded for not literally stoning the gays and adulteresses to death as the Bible says? That they ferociously oppose affordable health care for the poor but say so in such a sunny way?
@Baroness: Yeah, I haven't seen anything soft-edged about Palin or Huckabee at all. Just because they don't shout their backward fundamentalist views at the top of their lungs doesn't make them any less backward or fundamentalist.
@Baroness: They couldn't possibly stone all the adulterers, because that would wipe out most of their own party. I would totally give up the right to gay marry if I could stone Newt Gingrich, John Ensign and Mark Sanford. Hell, I'd settle for just being able to stone Sanford.
I'm thinking if Obama started speaking and/or thinking like Sarah Palin, then he in fact would need a CAT scan, because he very clearly has had a stroke.
" I can't think of a policy right off the bat". Stolen from one of Palins' interviews.
"I don't know half of the things that people ask me". God this is like shooting anything you want in a barrel.
"Ism" everybodies talking about faggism, dragism, Marxism fuckism. When I'm President I going to track all these people down and hit them in the face with a pie.
And how did these people find a book store?
@Mediahohoho: I'm sure they are in favor of deporting them, y'know 'cuz Obama is making all those illegals citizens so they will vote him in to finish his destruction of America.
I'm not sure why Palin is supposed to be brilliantly managing her book tour when the second day on it she pissed off a crowd of frozen Hoosiers by scooting early, thereby underscoring the fact that she's a quitter who knocks off early when the going gets tough. But then, I don't understand most of what twinkle tits Mo is saying more of the time.
Look, every place in America where Sarah Palin has a book signing will be, by default, the dumbest/craziest place in America.
Until tomorrow, when she has another signing, in another city.
Just like the Water cycle, the Nitrogen cycle, and the VH1 Celebrity cycle, the Sarah Palin Crazy cycle helps nourish the Earth and replenish its natural reserves of crazy.
Because the Palin wing of the US viscerally, completely hates him. Not just like "man I don't want to vote for that you," we're talking "I want to kill you." Dowd's theory is that some of the down-homin' that Palin is famous for would ingratiate Obama to that wing, which, hah.
The bottom line is that the only way Obama becomes best buds with the moose-slaying set is if he figures out the secrets of Sammy Sosa's radiant skin.
@Unsolicited Advice: Right. As you point out, though, this is a relatively small segment of the population who are never going to like him, no matter what he does. He could restore the U.S. to vibrant prosperity, regain our status in the international community, and bring peace and justice to all humanity, and they would still hate his guts. Moreover, they're people whose goodwill he obviously doesn't need, since he won handily without them. But Maureen thinks he needs to snuggle up to them why? Well, because she's an idiot, mainly.
@Unsolicited Advice: That still wouldn't work cause he's married to an angry black lady which I think that's still illegal in certain parts of 'merica.
Dowd's from DC. Demographics are always viewed as malleable by the weird cretins in that place. After all, if they didn't believe in the power of message and spin to Change The World (TM), they'd all go nuts. Never shove a DC analyst or columnist into the Total Perspective Vortex.
@MissNormaDesmond: Better question is why Dick Fucking Cheney would be giving Obama advice on how to win the war in Afghanistan. That bastard must have his balls stored away in some basement, because they are way too huge to carry on a daily basis. Did he forget who had 7 years to "win" the war?
Do any of them understand that Sarah jogs? Could any of them possibly emulate that? Because that would do a lot more for their quality of life than anything that's going on in Washington, DC.
And, yes, what I mean is: they are all goddamn fat (except for the Nazi grandma, who scared me).
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Maureen Dowd is a tired, weak, shatteringly insecure hack who hasn't had an original thought of her own in 20 years and who recycles the latest talking points of Drudge, etc., after she blends them with her own stew of innuendos, slander, lies and general misrepresentation. Plus her hair is ugly.
Also, I think the left needs to own this narrative: "speak for real Americans," "protect the rights of real Americans," "stand up for Americans," and take back those words from these insane Christianist ne0-fascist zealot ideologue mouthbreathing submorons, you feel me?
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What does "soft-edged" mean here? That they are to be applauded for not literally stoning the gays and adulteresses to death as the Bible says? That they ferociously oppose affordable health care for the poor but say so in such a sunny way?
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"I don't know half of the things that people ask me". God this is like shooting anything you want in a barrel.
"Ism" everybodies talking about faggism, dragism, Marxism fuckism. When I'm President I going to track all these people down and hit them in the face with a pie.
And how did these people find a book store?
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Also, I'm not a big fan of Harleys!
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(Denton needs to launch a moto-focused Gawker blog.
Jalopnik for bike people!)
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Until tomorrow, when she has another signing, in another city.
Just like the Water cycle, the Nitrogen cycle, and the VH1 Celebrity cycle, the Sarah Palin Crazy cycle helps nourish the Earth and replenish its natural reserves of crazy.
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Because the Palin wing of the US viscerally, completely hates him. Not just like "man I don't want to vote for that you," we're talking "I want to kill you." Dowd's theory is that some of the down-homin' that Palin is famous for would ingratiate Obama to that wing, which, hah.
The bottom line is that the only way Obama becomes best buds with the moose-slaying set is if he figures out the secrets of Sammy Sosa's radiant skin.
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Dowd's from DC. Demographics are always viewed as malleable by the weird cretins in that place. After all, if they didn't believe in the power of message and spin to Change The World (TM), they'd all go nuts. Never shove a DC analyst or columnist into the Total Perspective Vortex.
#tips
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And, yes, what I mean is: they are all goddamn fat (except for the Nazi grandma, who scared me).
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