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Rogue American Woman (Dowd reads Sarah Palin's book)
New York Times ^
| 11/17/09
| Maureen Dowd
Posted on 12/08/2009 6:35:50 AM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010
Of course, the subtitle of Sarah Palins book is An American Life.
Because she is the lovely avatar of real Americans ordinary, hard-working, God-fearing, common-sense, good, ordinary, real Americans.
If you are not living an American life, you are, to use a Palin coinage, living bass-ackwards.(snip)
I approached reading her book with trepidation, worried I might learn that I am not a real American, dang it, just another dreaded, jaded enlightened elite.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: dowager; dowd; palin; sarahpalin; yuk
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Dowd goes down a laundry list of all the things she and Palin share in common. Here's one glaring difference:
![](http://www.butlersheetmetal.com/tinbasherblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sarah-palin-todd-palin.jpg)
And...
Lest we forget...
...Rules!
![](http://images.askmen.com/photos/catherine-zeta-jones/13400.jpg)
![](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/21/article-1151830-01FC99B3000004B0-120_468x807.jpg)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
I only clicked on the thread for the pics.
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
I approached reading her book with trepidation, worried I might learn that I am not a real American, dang it, just another dreaded, jaded enlightened elite. Yup. Yup, that's about right, lady.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:39:48 AM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
Sarah Palin is everything that Maureen Dowd wishes she was and is not.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:40:31 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
What’s interesting here really is the relative witholding of venom.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:42:00 AM PST
by
Pessimist
(u)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
...a Palin coinage, living bass-ackwards" To the lovely, but ill educated Ms. Dowd: If you were part of the real world, you would know that the "coinage" has been around for decades. But then, you never speak to "real people".................
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:42:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
Palin/Zeta-Jones 2012.
And stop those stupid questions about Catherine Zeta-Jones' Welsh birth preventing her from being VP. She was born in Hawaii and I have the birth certificate to prove it. No, you can't see it.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:42:51 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Obamalaise - the new mood for America.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
My goodness, do I sense a degree of respect from Dowd?
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:43:31 AM PST
by
Dansong
To: Red Badger
To the lovely, but ill educated Ms. Dowd: If you were part of the real world, you would know that the "coinage" has been around for decades. But then, you never speak to "real people".................That was my first reaction. I'm 66, and used it as a kid.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:43:52 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
To: ccmay
“I was beginning to panic. I pored over the book to see if there was anything that I shared in common with this apotheosis of traditional American values.”
Nope, probably not. Elitists do not tend to have any respect for or reflection of traditional American values. In fact, I wonder why she was feigning a desire to share those values.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:44:06 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
Totally self-defeating list of side by side comparisons.
Which is what made it worth reading.
That, and the fact that it was mercifully short.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:44:22 AM PST
by
supremedoctrine
("The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away."--Tom Waits)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
I don’t care what Mo Dowdy has to say. I don’t read the fecal matter she spews into print. She is the equivalent of a politician. That is to say, an unprincipled whore.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:45:35 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
You can almost feel the purple headed monster of jealousy’s hot breath searing the back of Maureen Dowd’s neck.
Don’t ya just love it?
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:46:20 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
To: Rummyfan
Yeppers.......that’s right! Dowd needs a man to get her out of that perpetual snit she’s in but WHO would step up and take care of that problem.....:)
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:46:48 AM PST
by
Dawgreg
(Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
To: Dansong
Here, I’ll give Dowd a “cred”.
Her final sentence was about Piper.
She has an inkling, at least, that Piper is going to be the next Piper “Quincy” Palin.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:47:07 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
I approached reading her book with trepidation, worried I might learn that I am not a real American, dang it, just another dreaded, jaded enlightened elite. "UNenlightened elite" is more like it...
I'd bet MoDo approached Going Rogue with trepidation because she was afraid she wouldn't understand the words.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:47:34 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
ALL of your pictures prove that God loves men and wants to see them happy.
What Dowd forget to say was that Sarah stayed right, and Maureen veered left. Sarah also managed to snag and KEEP the man she loved.
Better luck next time, Maureen.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:48:10 AM PST
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
To: KarlInOhio
LOL about the BC.
PALIN/ZETA-JONES 2012
![](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/04/article-1083076-02249324000005DC-117_224x587.jpg)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
Wow, its almost void of any negativity.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:51:06 AM PST
by
Raycpa
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
worried I might learn that I am not a real American, dang it, just another dreaded, jaded enlightened elite. You chose the path of evil Ms. Dowd.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:51:24 AM PST
by
sausageseller
(If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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