Posted on 09/03/2008 10:31:20 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
For many years, reality was out of vogue with Republicans. They ignored the reality of Iraq and Katrina, of Pakistan and Osama bin Laden.
When confronted with their colossal carelessness around the globe and here at home, their mantra was, as Rummy put it, “Stuff happens.”
Now reality, in all its messy, crazy, funky glory, has flooded the party, in the comely, crackling form of Sarah Palin.
Unable to stop the onslaught of wild soap opera storylines erupting from the Palin family and the Alaska wilderness, McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt offered caterwauling reporters a new mantra: “Life happens.”
Indeed, it does. Only four days into her reign as John McCain’s “soul mate,” or “Trophy Vice,” as some bloggers are calling her, on the ticket known as “Maverick Squared,” Palin, the governor of Alaska, has already accrued two gates (Troopergate and Broken-watergate), a lawyer (for Troopergate), a future son-in-law named Levi (a high school ice hockey player, described by New York magazine as “sex on skates”), and a National Enquirer headline about the “Teen Prego Crisis” with 17-year-old daughter Bristol.
It seems like a long time since Vice President Dan Quayle denounced Murphy Brown for having a baby out of wedlock, bemoaning a “poverty of values.” It also seems like a long time — and another McCain ago — that Republicans supporting W. smeared the old John McCain by spreading rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate black child.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
DAN QUAYLE WAS RIGHT
Remember that magazine cover MODO?
Longer than I can remember. Or did she just make that one up?
People still read this hacks words... Hard to believe ?
Missing from the article is anything substantive that should cause any problem for Sarah Palin. “Broken water-gate” is asinine. Does Dowd really think this is an issue? And she still fails to see that Bristol’s pregnancy is a non-issue, even for evangelical voters (who, to Dowd’s disappointment, show no sign of gearing up to stone Bristol and drive her out of town). As for her crabby attack about Bristol watching Trig— is she kidding? This is any of her business?
dowd, hoping she’s relevant
I don't read the columns. You know what I'm here for...
When will this miserable bitch finally commit suicide?
From MSM, not Republicans or President Bush.
Maureen Shroud is a corpse from her innermost, to her outside Death Cult, baby killing, subservient “party” girl, exterior.
Nothing that comes out of her Red Rag Hag(NYTs) columns, is anything other than...poisonous.
Someone help me out here, I'm nearly apoplectic with rage and confusion.
Didn't our President face the reality of Iraq? Hunt Bin Laden when the Left/Dems/Clinton ignored the threat?
Are we to now invade Pakistan? and what is meant by "ignoring katrina" ?
Modo will die single for a good reason.
No. It happened in South Carolina in 2000.
The Drive-by Media are trying to create an anti-Palin earthquake. Yet not a single one of these smug, self-righteous, living-in-a-bubble liberal elitists can see the tidal wave they have inadvertently created, bearing down on them. They are about to drown and they deserve it.
I just finished lunch and now I’m sick. What a mean, bitter woman.
Dowd is nothing more than a hypocritical, bitter woman who can’t stand the fact Palin will end up stealing a lot of Hillary votes. Haaa....haaa....
Let’s all have a good laugh at this pathetic loser....
It’s all well and good posting pictures of Mrs. Michael Douglas here, but has anyone considered actually sending pictures of her to Miss Dowd?
And yes, it does look like CZJ is holding hands with her grandpa. Makes one speculate about what his personal charms were that attracted and still holds such a young, vital, and beautiful woman.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.