MAUREEN DOWD: Daddies in a Panic, and Mommy, Too

[kevinmc]

-SNIP-

This could explain why many Republican women are so frustrated. They have been deprived of the bristly excitement of hearing their men on the stump delivering great speeches for quite some time now.

The Daddy Party, sick with desire for a daddy, is like a lost child. John McCain, handcuffed to the Surge, announced yesterday he has the support of Henry Kissinger. Why not just drink poison? As the Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi slyly said, “Leave it to Mitt Romney to shoot himself in the foot with a gun he doesn’t own.”

Rudy Giuliani, already haunted by the specters of Bernard Kerik’s corruption and Judy Nathan’s conjugal confusion, yesterday made things worse. He did the same thing John McCain did in South Carolina in 2000, a sickening pander the Arizona senator told “60 Minutes” Sunday that he did “for all the wrong reasons.” As Marc Santora reports from Montgomery, Rudy said he would leave the decision about whether to fly the Confederate flag over the Alabama State Capitol to the people of Alabama.

Even cable news showed little interest in President Bush’s big speech on Iraq yesterday, as he continued to excoriate Democrats for hurting the troops by trying to get an exit strategy, a day after Moktada al-Sadr’s spokesman denounced the Liberator as “the father of evil, Bush” while Sadr thugs burned and shredded American flags and shouted, “Leave, leave occupier.”.........

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/04/maureen-dowd-daddies-in-panic-and-mommy.html

[silverweb]

1. A very good piece.

I loved these lines:

"John McCain, handcuffed to the Surge, announced yesterday he has the support of Henry Kissinger. Why not just drink poison? As the Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi slyly said, 'Leave it to Mitt Romney to shoot himself in the foot with a gun he doesn’t own.'"

Indeed!

:D

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Now that's good writing !

"John McCain, handcuffed to the Surge, announced yesterday he has the support of Henry Kissinger. Why not just drink poison?" LOL :}

[DeSwiss]

3. Oh I love this!

A couple of other nuggets from the piece:

"Mr. Nagourney and Mr. Broder quote Mickey Edwards, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma who now lectures at Princeton, saying that the party does not have any candidates who are compelling. “I just don’t know,” he adds, “how they can run hard enough or fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of the Bush administration."

(Gravitational pull? Try "black hole.")

"Hillary has been wielding Bill as a bludgeon on support and money. If you were ever behind him, you’d better fall into line behind her. But doesn’t that undermine her presentation of herself as a self-reliant feminist aiming to be the first Madame President? If you can only win by leaning so heavily on your man for your muscle, isn’t that a benign form of paternalism?"

(A benign form of paternalism? I don't think its all that benign.)

A really great post. K&R!!! :thumbsup: :)

[Demeter]

4. Good Snapshot of the Political Moment

I can't wait for the feature film!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. That's okay, Maureen. Just send those white folk to my county

where white men are encouraged to release their hostilities against their neighbors in their pursuit of manifest destiny. It's written into the adverse possession laws.