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Visceral Has Its Value
New York Times website ^ | November 22, 2009 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 11/22/2009 6:12:09 AM PST by RayChuang88

It’s easy to dismiss Sarah Palin.

She’s back on the trail, with the tumbling hair and tumbling thoughts. The queen of the scenic strip mall known as Wasilla now reigns over thrilled subjects thronging to a politically strategic swath of American strip malls.

The conservative celebrity clearly hasn’t boned up on anything, except her own endless odyssey of self-discovery. And she still has that Yoda-like syntax.

“And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain,” she told Bill O’Reilly.

Yet Democrats would be foolish to write off her visceral power.

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I think Dowd is just jealous of how Palin is attracting huge crowds on the former Governor's book tour.

(Per rules of this message thread, here's an appropriate picture:)


1 posted on 11/22/2009 6:12:09 AM PST by RayChuang88
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I think Dowd is just jealous of how Palin is attracting huge crowds on the former Governor's book tour.

No doubt some jealousy is involved. But beyond the vernier of jealousy is the fear. Every elitist and liberal suffers it.

2 posted on 11/22/2009 6:15:54 AM PST by bcsco (Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
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They can be dismissive of Palin all they want, but she will speak her mind and have an audience and that scares the hell out of them because it is exposing them for all they are. The Demonrat/media myth is going to die.


3 posted on 11/22/2009 6:16:46 AM PST by bushfamfan (United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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To: RayChuang88

I’m glad MoDo allows for the power of the visceral...beacause my disdain for her opinions is very visceral.


4 posted on 11/22/2009 6:18:17 AM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in democrat stands for patriotism)
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Dowd took her Dowdy world through the Bushy years (as she called them) now she is back into her Dowdy world.


5 posted on 11/22/2009 6:18:26 AM PST by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonyous)
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To: RayChuang88

If the ring is any indication, the phrase, “All surface, no substance” applies.

It is nice to know, as I sally forth into the Everglades to train another group of CCW permit gonna-be’s, that people like Dowd have managed to bring a share of New York Slimes stock to a lower market value than a copy of the Sunday edition of their paper.

Life is good, G*d is just, and the Slimes is going broke.

;-)


6 posted on 11/22/2009 6:18:34 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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clearly hasn’t boned up on anything

Like Alinsky, Ayers, or Wright?

If I were to go off on a speaking tour, I wouldn't have to "bone up" on anything. I would be talking about what I have known about for years, not something that had been quickly crammed into me the week before.

ML/NJ

7 posted on 11/22/2009 6:20:24 AM PST by ml/nj
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So eloquently scribbled from the Queen of Twit. She has the utter capacity to be so full of herself that for most people there would be plenty of room left over for the crowd from a football stadium.

Ms. Dowd will eventualy be one of those “crashers” who’ll just end up looking like a typical bag lady in a few years. We’ll see just how full of herself she is then.


8 posted on 11/22/2009 6:20:38 AM PST by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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The words spoken by Mrs Palin are not the outright lies and distortions we heard from Mr Obama. He continues to lie to our face on a daily basis. Is this what America likes? They elected an amoral liar and make fun of Mrs Palin? Would we be looking at the theft of millions in stimulus money under someone like Palin? I doubt it. Obama does not have common sense. He has an agenda not compatable with American success.
I will pick Mrs Palen every time over Obama.


9 posted on 11/22/2009 6:26:12 AM PST by oldironsides
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Maybe Dowdy and Martha could spend an afternoon together baking cookies and having a good Palin Bash over tea.
10 posted on 11/22/2009 6:34:43 AM PST by JPG (Obama's plan for America...today, Labor Unions...tomorrow, Labor Camps.)
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This is actually a rip on Obama. She ends up saying Obama should be like Sarah... and she says it using bitch like syntax.


11 posted on 11/22/2009 6:36:33 AM PST by joelt
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No, Obama’s lies, evasiveness and deception are not what America wanted. But the agenda isn’t to give America what it wants; it’s to transform America into the socialist model of government. The liberals and elitists support this, and anyone who is a conservative populist, and who has the ear of the people, strikes fear in their hearts. Someone as shallow as Dowd may live on jealousies, but beneath that vernier is fear.

And that’s something we need to manipulate.


12 posted on 11/22/2009 6:38:29 AM PST by bcsco (Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
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FUMODO


FUMODO
13 posted on 11/22/2009 6:39:00 AM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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I like the picture I posted better because it's beautiful, classy and elegant all at the same time.
14 posted on 11/22/2009 6:41:27 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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MoDo should go into porn. People putting things in her mouth would slow down the stupidity coming out of it.....


15 posted on 11/22/2009 6:50:36 AM PST by Feckless (Don't care where he was born. The oath I took said "...all enemies, foreign and domestic".)
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Hm, a fear ridden column from Modo. She goes where liberals always go when the public starts to sour on their guy: to the excuse that he’s too cerebral. There’s clearly some fear going on out there on the left. Chris Matthews said about the same thing the other day.


16 posted on 11/22/2009 7:05:19 AM PST by Yardstick
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I like "Yoda-like syntax" and the brains behind it.

0bambi = Jar-Jar....(the ears are a dead give-away)

17 posted on 11/22/2009 7:07:46 AM PST by spokeshave (Obama can't unjump the shark "Obama Wa Nobel-sho Ni Ataeshinai" ("Obama Unworthy of Nobel Prize"))
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True...but mine has more boobie in it.


18 posted on 11/22/2009 7:16:41 AM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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Holy cow... that photo could make a doorknob sweat.


19 posted on 11/22/2009 7:17:43 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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Dowd reminds me of a Walt Disney Character whose famous line started: “Mirror, Mirror on the wall...”


20 posted on 11/22/2009 7:38:01 AM PST by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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