Coulda, woulda, shoulda ... right MoDo? Burn your heart out with envy, ya nasty skank.
Posted on 11/09/2016 11:59:47 AM PST by Red Badger
I sat watching in astonishment. The one who couldn’t bear to show up to concede was not, as expected, Donald Trump, but Hillary Clinton.
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The Republican establishment couldn’t stand Trump. The Democratic establishment mocked him. The Republican nominee didn’t even really seem to have much of a campaign. He spent more on “Make America Great” hats than on polling. When I visited his campaign headquarters this summer, there were more pictures, paintings and cardboard cutouts of Trump around than Trump advisers. If you don’t count Newt Gingrich — and I don’t — only one major political historian, Allan Lichtman, had predicted that Trump would win.
But then the impossible happened. 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.”
When the Apocalypse came at midnight and the TV analysts — even on Fox — were scrambling to reverse their analyses and justify their bad polling data; and the stock exchanges had to temporarily halt the futures market because it was falling too fast, and the world was spinning off its axis, I called my conservative brother to see what the heck was going on.
“As flawed a candidate as Trump was, he had his finger on the pulse,” Kevin said. “The polls were off because nobody wanted to admit that they were going to vote for him. But it’s a populist revolt and a lot of people believed in Trump’s message: too much regulation, too much government. The whole thing is a bunch of guys getting rich on Capitol Hill and not paying attention to the people who elected them. They stay in Congress a couple years, then move on to K Street and call on the same people who replaced them.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“IF YOU CAN SEE THE INVISIBLE, YOU CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE”.
Dowd is, unfortunately BLIND.
I think that she was using those terms as examples of what has been written by others. She should have put them in quotes............
Irrational? Not sure about that, myself. For Maureen Dowd and others (Milton Miteybad’s sister, to be specific) it may merely be a matter of preferring the evils they know, rather than the ones they don’t. Did you really expect MoDo to support Trump? Seriously? I certainly didn’t. But she clearly knows what reprobates the Clintons are, and she has gone on record in her column as acknowledging that fact. I’m willing to give her credit for recognizing and being willing to say out loud that the Clintons probably ought to be in jail.
A great quote from the same column in which Dowd’s brother explained why he voted for Trump:
“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.”
OK, if that was the case, then her article was not as schzoid as it came across. Yes, quotation marks would have helped.
Even wonder why ZOMBIE movies are so popular?................
I think it was written, partially, as tongue-in-cheek..................
Coulda, woulda, shoulda ... right MoDo? Burn your heart out with envy, ya nasty skank.
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