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Absorbing the Impossible [Dowd Has Lucid Moment]
www.nytimes.com ^ | 11/09/2016 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 11/09/2016 11:59:47 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Dowd called her conservative brother?

Might be hope for her, after all.


21 posted on 11/09/2016 12:15:35 PM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Starboard
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
22 posted on 11/09/2016 12:16:34 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Liz

Yes, she was bewildered by what was happening, and needed him to actually fill her in on reality....................


23 posted on 11/09/2016 12:17:59 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

**If you don’t count Newt Gingrich — and I don’t**

Well that’s because you are a dumb cow.


24 posted on 11/09/2016 12:18:37 PM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: Red Badger

Rules is rules. :-)


25 posted on 11/09/2016 12:19:07 PM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Red Badger

Common sense prevailed ..... AFTER her bro weighed-in.


26 posted on 11/09/2016 12:19:21 PM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Red Badger

Say what you will about Maureen Dowd...but she explicitly acknowledges that the Clintons are sleazy felons worthy of prosecution, even if that may never come to pass. I’m willing to give her credit for being intellectually honest about them. She wrote a column in the 1990s rhetorically asking whether Bill and Hillary were in league with the Devil, saying that it would go a long way to explain how the Clintons managed to prosper and profit, while so many others in their circle of acquaintances met terrible fates.


27 posted on 11/09/2016 12:19:21 PM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Red Badger
As Salena Zito had presciently written in The Atlantic: “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”

Great point.

28 posted on 11/09/2016 12:21:55 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Red Badger

Is that bitch still alive? If so, too bad.


29 posted on 11/09/2016 12:25:27 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Red Badger

Maureen should let her brother Kevin write her column. Sounds like he has some sense.


30 posted on 11/09/2016 12:28:32 PM PST by carolinablonde
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To: Red Badger

Thank you! Laz just went va-va-va-voom!


31 posted on 11/09/2016 12:28:49 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Red Badger

I never would have guessed Maureen Dowd’s brother would provide the most succinct response to media-driven fears. Thanks for sharing MoDo!


32 posted on 11/09/2016 12:31:20 PM PST by Oratam
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To: Red Badger
Ok. I will hand it to her. When she puts her mind to it, she can write, unlike a lot of the hacks around.

This is perfect:

Hillary’s closing line in the campaign was that she was the only thing standing between her and the abyss. But to my conservative family, Hillary was the abyss while Donald was the baseball bat to smash Washington.

The only thing wrong with that is that a baseball bat is smooth and lightweight. It bruises. I think more of a flail (chain and spiked ball).

Oh, and this part she has wrong to:

“After months of chatter about the implosion of the Republican Party, we are instead witnessing the obviation of the Democratic Party.”

As Trump said, we get it about the Democrats. We know what they are after. It is the Republicans we don't get.

GOPe delenda est. I want a new party, with a new name, after taking out the trash left by the old party and cleaning up the stale beer smell.

33 posted on 11/09/2016 12:31:42 PM PST by AndyJackson
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OK, what’s so bad about those photos?


34 posted on 11/09/2016 12:34:39 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: Milton Miteybad

>>but she explicitly acknowledges that the Clintons are sleazy felons worthy of prosecution<<

And, yet, prefers Clinton over Trump as our next POTUS. Good Lord! I’ve known my share of irrational people, but this goes beyond that to the level of certifiably insane. Surprised her brother still tries to inform her obviously diseased mind. Can you imagine a lifetime trying to love a sibling so bereft of a reasoning mind and moral or ethical compass? Maybe he’s grateful that she doesn’t have anything more deadly at hand than a computer keyboard and an internet connection. Dangerous mind.


35 posted on 11/09/2016 12:37:45 PM PST by torqemada (If you can't accept my values, you can't have my money.)
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To: Red Badger

“Absorbing the Impossible [Dowd Has Lucid Moment]”

No such luck according to the article - it was her brother Kevin that has the lucid moments - she’s still totally clueless, lost in the fog.


36 posted on 11/09/2016 12:37:46 PM PST by aquila48
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“The Clintons remind me of the Universal horror movies where you thought the monster was dead and then the monster would show up in a bad sequel. I’m glad now that they’re finally gone.”

Worth repeating...


37 posted on 11/09/2016 12:39:51 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: DaveA37

Not a damn thing wrong with them?


38 posted on 11/09/2016 12:40:39 PM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Red Badger; All

“Trump came onstage at the Hilton looking subdued — and perhaps terrified?”

After reviewing the video of Trumps entrance, it seems to me that the look on his face was that of overwhelming emotion; he had the look of a man who had dreamed big and against all odds achieved the dream.

It was a look of humility and gratitude; as if he were simply waking from the dream - only to find out that the dream had become reality...


39 posted on 11/09/2016 12:50:18 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Red Badger
Well, I clicked on the link, and now I have to de-louse myself, having gone to the NYT website.
Thanks though. Some (a few) reasonable comments by Dowd, but I agree with other posters - No, Trump was not "terrified" when he gave his acceptance speech. No, Trump is not a racist. This is just a projection from leftists who use this universal slur against anyone that they disagree. And besides, it was/is totally legitimate to question Obama's eligibility for the office. Obama never actually produced a real birth certificate, and having posted a forgery raised red alarms.

Anyways, a semi-sane Dowd article, but still throwing out some insults based on projections, and not facts.

40 posted on 11/09/2016 12:58:48 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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