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2009-08-16 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2009-08-16 12:52|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 "But Newt Gingrich was a professor. And he does know something about pulling yourself up by dragging down others and imploding when you take center stage both Palin specialties".

A bit of transference, Ms. Dowd? Your reason(s) for offering opinions about Mrs. Palin appear to be unrelenting animus and ad hominem attacks about someone who scares the bejesus out of you.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-08-16 13:31|| 2009-08-16 13:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow! Does the NYTs still allow her to expose herself to the public outside of the registration attic? I thought they had packed her away her like a crazy spinster aunt.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-08-16 13:56|| 2009-08-16 13:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Dowd is in a moronic class only shared with with that ass from MSNBC and crabs. She reminds me of an old Asian saying, well at least its old to me, called the Crab rule. Certain people, Ms Dowd to be sure, live life like a crab that is in a bucket. The crab knows it is caught, it knows it is going to die, yet when one crab starts to crawl out all the crabs grab it and drag it back into the bucket. Ms Dowd's bantor is quippy full of east coast elitism and probably entertaining to the New York crowd that feels the end of the earth is at the Manhatten tunnel. She knows a rising star when she sees one, and there is no doubt Sarah's star is still rising. So Dowd atacks as only she knows how, trying to drag Sarah into the bucket of slime that New Yorkers call home. New Yorkers as a whole love to see one of their own drag someone down, they revel in losers. They love to see someone brought down to their level. Why else would New Yorks largest paper hire such a sleaze, why would New Yorkers embrace such a paper and writer if they were not the losers in the bottom of the bucket not wanting to see anyone get ahead?

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-08-16 13:59|| 2009-08-16 13:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Triage systems in war medicine require prioritizing which of the wounded gets served. The UK does have similar mechanisms, and law suits based on choices that caused death, are too numerous to count. There is no such thing as licensing political rhetoric. If Sarah Palin wants to refer to triage based systems as "Death Care," and bureaucratic administration of same as "Death Panels," that's her business. Over-sensitivity to political hardball is no worse than what Sarah did.

Posted by Unitle Borgia4836 2009-08-16 14:33|| 2009-08-16 14:33|| Front Page Top

#5
MoDo (the worlds oldest teenager) just called Sarah Palin "dizzy".

Oh, the irony!

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-16 14:58|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-16 14:58|| Front Page Top

#6 "Ms. Dowd has no children, as I recall, so needn't worry about the government being untrustworthy. Besides, she goes to dinner parties with those people, who will take care of her because of her charm and insight."

But woe unto the day she ever disagrees with them...and MoDo knows it. Makes you wonder how many liberal reporters and writers keep chugging the Kool Aid out of fear of what would happen to them professionally and socially if they ever stopped.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-08-16 15:39|| 2009-08-16 15:39|| Front Page Top

#7 New York Dowd types need to be bypassed like Truk and Rabaul were in WW2, and be allowed to wither on the vine.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-08-16 17:01|| 2009-08-16 17:01|| Front Page Top

#8 "Ms. Dowd has no children, as I recall, so needn't worry about the government being untrustworthy.

Seems like the gene pool is improved as a result.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-08-16 18:07|| 2009-08-16 18:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Ms. Dowd should read Charles Lane's recent article in the WP. Lane looked at the various bills, saw that there wouldn't be death panels, but saw that doctors would have financial incentives to steer the elderly to palliative care.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-08-16 18:12|| 2009-08-16 18:12|| Front Page Top

#10 MoDo a bitch needing a slap.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-08-16 18:15|| 2009-08-16 18:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Sarge, be civil; even though Ms Dowd isn't. Her foolishness will come home to roost.

Warning: long rant follows
Evidence in support of Palin's assertions re: Downs' Syndrome kids like Trig: something like 85% of fetuses who test positive for Downs' Syndrome are being aborted. I have 3 kids with Aspergers Syndrome (out of 5 kids) and you would not believe the idiot comments I've gotten over the years: "Is there a prenatal test for that?", with the ensuing comments implying that somehow my kids are less than other people's. Never mind that my eldest is working, the next Aspie kid has a job and is starting community college, and the youngest may be engineering school material; and all 3 are interesting, intelligent people, although seriously immature in some areas.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-08-16 18:24|| 2009-08-16 18:24|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd have to be crazy to try to outsnark such a wonderful array of comments, but I will point out that by rough count this is MoDo's 2,456th column about Palin. This is turning into one of those creepy B-grade stalker movies.

Posted by Matt 2009-08-16 18:34|| 2009-08-16 18:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Once again, Maureen Dowd demonstrates that she is strongly in need of some powerful medications and quiet time - lots of it. Her column is just too irrational to respond to directly.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-08-16 18:51|| 2009-08-16 18:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Shock poll result among progressive online activists
Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin proved to be extremely unpopular with conference attendees: Just 1 percent rated Palin favorably, compared to 88 percent who rated her unfavorably. Thirty-six percent rated Palin as the easiest Republican presidential nominee to defeat in 2012, followed by former Sen. Rick Santorum, who was rated easiest to beat by 20 percent, and Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal, who was the choice of 12 percent.

The poll was conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, in conjunction with Democracy Corps and Campaign for Americas Future.

Posted by tipper 2009-08-16 19:23|| 2009-08-16 19:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Who cares what a skank like Mz Dowdy foams a rant on? In the end she's still a stinky skank.

Posted by 3dc 2009-08-16 19:34|| 2009-08-16 19:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Just why does Sarah have to run for office? She is so moronic that when she posts "jump" on Fbook politicians immediately respond "How high?" I'm betting Obama wonders why he cannot be that stupid.

So how expensive would it to run your whole campaign on MySpace?

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-08-16 20:40|| 2009-08-16 20:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Ms. Dowd seriously needs some counseling or something. She seriously needs to talk to someone or get laid or something because this is really beginning to creep people out. Does ever a week (or a day) goes by where she doesn't have a column about Sarah? Sounds like a serious obsession - hope Sarah's careful when she visits NYC.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-08-16 21:20|| 2009-08-16 21:20|| Front Page Top

#18 So how expensive would it to run your whole campaign on MySpace?
You reckon that's what MoDo is up to?
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion thinks she is trying to hook up.

Posted by tipper 2009-08-16 21:21|| 2009-08-16 21:21|| Front Page Top

#19 Skunky Glins5***, you forgot your /sarcasm thingy. Trailing daughter #2 got quite upset until I translated the humour for her.

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