Maureen Dowd: Sarah Palin Scared

The American Thinker ^ | August 02, 2009 | Stuart Schwartz

[Scanian]

You're Maureen Dowd, and you're scared. The self-doubt, the "Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas," the whole Robert Frost thing --you know, "The Road Not Taken" -- relentlessly nibbles at the edge of your consciousness.

You're Maureen Dowd and you're scared -- Sarah Palin scared. Others -- like columnists Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker -- are jealous. But you are scared. You're celebrated, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, famed and feared, known as the "Queen of Snots" for eviscerating prose largely directed at conservatives and middle America, which begins at the Hudson River and ends just east of zip code 90210 in California.

But...the Big 6-0 is in front of you (wait-isn't that my mother's age, sixty years?! How can this be!?), the last gasps of menopause still flash hot and cold, and suddenly a woman comes on the political scene whose life, choices, and successes are the polar opposite of the choices you've made the centerpiece of your life -- written a whole book about, in fact, Are Men Necessary: Why Sexes Collide.

You have relentlessly developed an aura of intellect and sex. You are "a smart, ambitious, alluring woman in a crazy, often infuriating man's world." That's how Howard Kurtz -- a dear friend -- described you in the Washington Post. He wrote what you wanted him to write: Your mystique, your sexuality "is at the heart of Dowd's take on life."

You are the anti-Palin. You live alone because your job and accomplishments are intimidating to men, you're without children because you refuse to be "Mrs. Anonymous Biological Robot in a Docile Mass" of family and boring community, and you're not married because that's for the Sarah Palins of the world, women who want to become "harpies and nagging wives and mothers." Choices -- you chose sexy and

[SolidWood]

The follow-up to "Sarah-Envy"

Palin PING!

Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.

[Gaffer]

Ouch! If Mo had any ovaries, they would be burning! A fine tribute
to a bitter burned up ‘woman’.

[metalurgist]

Thank God that Doud has no issue to carry on.

It's perfectly fitting that this sour old b!tch dies bitter and alone.

[cbkaty]

You Betcha

[uncbob]

But you're Maureen Dowd and you're scared. New Yorker Film critic David Denby looks at you and sees a woman who is "essentially sour and without hope." And no matter what you do, what you say...the big 6-0 is around the corner. And your ritzy Georgetown place seems quieter.

Which will only make her more mean and vindictive if that is possible

[MrDem]

This is funny! Mareen Dowd disparately trying to be relevant by riding on Sarah Palin’s coattails.

[shibumi]

"You have relentlessly developed an aura of intellect and sex. You are "a smart, ambitious, alluring woman in a crazy, often infuriating man's world."

Yup! That's some alluring sexuality - fer sure!

[DieHard the Hunter]

Now that is a FINE piece of writing. Bookmarked!

[Guenevere]

Double OUCH!...Schwartz has surely channeled Dowd!

[sauropod]

read

[The Wizard]

I may have to subscribe to American Thinker

[geezerwheezer]

Yep, she is surely coyote ugly, and as mean as a badger! I wonder though, does she smell like a moose? (she kinda looks like one, don’t ya think?)

[mlizzy]

I’m a fan of Sarah Palin’s, but that was pretty harsh. Ouch!

[csvset]

[csvset]

[Willie Green]

Which will only make her more mean and vindictive if that is possible

Maureen Dowd's biggest nightmare is that she's going to wind up like Helen Thomas,
but Helen won't step aside and die and let Maureen take her place.

[snoringbear]

“This is funny! Mareen Dowd disparately trying to be relevant by riding on Sarah Palin’s coattails.”

Maureen who? Is that dried up old crow still around? Does anyone read her writings anymore? Not outside of the beltway where they sit in a circle and assure each other that they are still relevant, not, ha, ha.....

[StandUpChuck]

[Vaduz]

“Queen of Snot”