Maureen Dowd (NYT) Trashes John Kerry

[Aristotle]

Woah. This totally blew me away. Maureen Dowd, the ultra liberal Bush bashing New York Times columnist recently had the following things to say on the Don Imus show:

"I know a lot of Democrats I've talked to are really resigned," Dowd told radio host Don Imus. "They've sort of moved on in their heads to Hillary in 2008."

"Kerry's problem seems to be a Gore-like problem," she complained. "He's a loser even when he's winning. Kerry won all three debates but then he somehow is behind Bush in the polls afterwards. That's not who you want as your candidate, you know, a winner who's a loser."

"[Maybe] Kerry would have done better if he chose Biden as his running mate. I mean, he's dragging Edwards along now."

"[Kerry] just seems to say what will be politically viable. ... I think that's at the core of what bothers people about him. And that's what he did with Iraq."

"I think [his vote against the first Gulf War] is really sort of sinking him. Because he can't make the case against this war, then. Bush and Cheney can just chortle at him."

"I think that it was wrong and stupid to drag [Mary Cheney] into it. ... It just seemed smarmy to me."

"I think Joe Biden actually would have been a better [presidential] candidate. He's like Howard Dean - at least he spits it out."

Ouch.

[Miromina]

I am obviously not following the debate as closely as those living in the US, but what I read between the lines is that she believe Kerry have a whole lot of flaws but is still a far better candidate than Bush.

Or have I misunderstod your post?

-Peter

[Aristotle]

Originally posted by Miromina
I am obviously not following the debate as closely as those living in the US, but what I read between the lines is that she believe Kerry have a whole lot of flaws but is still a far better candidate than Bush.

Or have I misunderstod your post?

Maureen Dowd is an unabashed, bed wetting liberal who blames George Bush for everything from global warming to her toast getting burnt.

Dowd wouldn't know objectivity if it ran over her in an SUV, backed up, and ran her over 100 more times.

The amazing thing is that despite that fact, she still said those things about John Kerry.

[Frobozz]

I think her problem, and a problem that is running through the upper echelon's of the democratic party right now is the sentiment:

"OhmyfuckingodweregoingtolosetothisguyagainClintonw hereareyou?" mentality.

Even my friends back home in new york are already conceeding a Bush victory.

So it's time to start bashing Kerry for losing, passing the blame, etc.

[Bagsohaks]

or ... I'd rather stick it out with Bush for 4 more years so we can get Hillary in the office instead of having the possibility of Kerry for 8 yrs... Which I'd like to think would leave the Republicans in the Oval office for a nice stretch, since I'd have a hard time believing that Hillary would actually win. BUT , that's down the road and not now so who knows.