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Quote Of The Day: Maureen Dowd’s Idea for a 2012 GOP Ticket

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Politics.
Jul 5th, 2009 | Comments

Our political Quote of the Day comes from this acid column on soon-to-be-former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd:

Why not? Palin/Sanford in 2012, with the slogan: “Save time — we’re already in Crazy Town.”

On Palin’s surprise resignation announcement Dowd writes:

What looked like a secret wedding turned out to be a public unraveling as the G.O.P. implosion continued: Sarah wanted everyone to know that she’s not having fun and people are being mean to her and she doesn’t feel like finishing her first term as governor.

She can hunt wolves from the air and field-dress a moose, but she fears being a lame duck? Some brickbats over her ethics and diva turns as John McCain’s running mate, and that dewy skin turns awfully thin.

Maybe there’s another red Naughty Monkey high heel to drop — there’s often a hidden twist in Sarah’s country-music melodramas. Or is this a reckless high-speed escape from small-pond Alaska, where her popularity is dropping, to the big time Below?

Read it in full.

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adesnik

Count on Maureen Dowd to provide the NYT's readers with cute condescension instead of serious political analysis. But let us be thankful for MoDo -- she is always exhibit number one when we need to demonstrate that professional journalists are often less serious, more polemical, and less respectful than bloggers.

DaGoat

Good that Dowd consulted the esteemed psychiatrists at Vanity Fair to diagnose Palin.

Father_Time

I think liberals kicking neocons when they're down is appropriate. Neocons have been doing it for decades to liberals.

Humor here, is that neocons are kicking another neocon and that is the real story. John McCain, where is your chivalry? Will you not defend your chosen woman?

GreenDreams

Dowd's column was really funny, searingly, sneeringly, sarcastically, bitingly on target. I enjoyed it, and doesn't bother me at all that the right wingers here didn't. Thanks for pointing it out, Joe.

Lit3Bolt

Dowd and Friedman are usually good for one thing, and that's a thumb on the pulse of pundit consensus. And the consensus is that Palin is a hilarious cartoon figure of a Republican who will continue to define her party with her amusing antics, unless her party mans up and banishes her to the far reaches of thought and newspapers...perhaps even as far as A18.

D. E.Rodriguez

GreenDreams and Lit3Bolt on Maureen Dowd:

Hear, hear! (or is it here, here?

Anyway, since she drives rightwingers nuts (or is it rightnuts wingy?),keep 'em coming MD--and Joe.

moderator24

Maureen, say what you will about Palin. What we hear is that she makes you look like a mud fence.

DaGoat

It's funny. I am pro-choice, OK with gay marriage, recognized the need for the stimulus, believe the GOP did an awful job 2000-2006, think Palin was terrible choice for VP candidate, and think GWB was a poor president. But in here people think I'm a right-winger.

dcp137

I agree>> Who in the heck does M Dowd think she is? I can't stand her!

dcp137

I agree with Moderator24

Mo MoDo

Well, Sarah Palin is the genuine beauty pageant contestant and Maureen Dowd is the Pulitzer Prize winner. So if looks over smarts is the way to pick women, Palin is the winner.

fanforlife

AMEN..to the column on political wives....they make Tammy Wynette look stoic...

GreenDreams

Thanks, Mo MoDo. And frankly, I don't think Sarah's that good looking either, no offense to the guys who think she's so hot. You do know there are more beautiful women out there, don'tcha?

mlhradio

Thank you, God, for giving us Sarah Palin! Even as we approach the one year anniversary of her fifteen minutes of fame, Palin continues to be the Give That Keeps On Giving to the Democratic Party. It may seem a little bit silly that we are so incredibly obsessed on a washed-up has-been (or is that a washed-out never-was?), but I am thankful that she is still around. As long as the spotlight remains focused squarely on the "Shrilla from Wasilla", it is so very difficult to take the republican party seriously....about anything. At all.

So, please, Sarah Palin, please keep hogging the spotlight. We need you to keep the republican party look like crazy loons!

DaGoat

You guys talk about the slutty flight attendant look like it's a bad thing.

DLS

"Dowd and Friedman are usually good for one thing"

What's that, recycling whatever of theirs is printed?

DLS

"What we hear is that she makes you look like a mud fence."

And sound like one, in comparison, intellecturally.

Maureen Dowd is renowned for her vapidity, as well as those of her fans.

Leonidas

Palin would be a terrible candidate, I couldn't even vote for her over Obama, and thats saying alot. I'd rather have a moderate of either party than one of those two in 2012.

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