"...the Democrats fear the Bushies are capable of any level of deceit."

MoDowd is at least in touch with that reality.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/opinion/16dowd.html

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ere's how bad off the Democrats are: They're cowering behind closed doors, whispering that if it should ever turn out that Republicans are behind this, it would be so exquisitely Machiavellian, so beyond what Democrats are capable of, they should just fold and concede the election now - before the Republicans have to go to the trouble of stealing it again.

There's no evidence - it's just a preposterous, paranoid fantasy at this point. But it speaks to the jitters of the Democrats that they're consumed with speculation about whether Karl Rove, the master of dirty tricks and surrogate sleaze, could have set up CBS in a diabolical pre-emptive strike to undermine damaging revelations about Bush 43's privileged status and vanishing act in the National Guard, and his odd refusal to take his required physical when ordered.

In this vast left-wing conspiracy theory, Mr. Rove takes real evidence on W.'s shirking and transfers it to documents doomed to be exposed as phony (thereby undermining the real goods), then funnels it through third parties to Dan Rather, Bush 41's nemesis on Iran-contra. A perfect bank shot.

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The Democratic paranoia is a measure of the intimidation the West Wing is wielding in a race where John Kerry can't seem to take advantage of any of the Bush administration's increasingly calamitous blunders.

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She's absolutely right about Democrats cowering behind closed doors but she fails to mention her own contributions to this situation.

Anytime a Democrat makes a strong stand, one of the first columnists that we can count on to make snarky comments about it is Dowd. With her you're definitely damned if you do and damned if you don't.

"Iraq is a vision of hell, and the Republicans act as if it's a model kitchen. The president and vice president brag about liberating Iraqis and reassure us that they are stopping terrorist violence at its source and inspiring democracy in the region by bringing it to blood-drenched Iraq.

But what they haven't mentioned is that they have known since July that their rosy scenarios are as bogus as their W.M.D. That's when the president received a national intelligence estimate that spelled out 'a dark assessment of prospects' for stability and governance in Iraq in the next 18 months, as Douglas Jehl wrote in today's Times. Worst-case estimates include civil war or anarchy.

Unlike the president, THE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TRYING TO STAY ALIVE IN THE UNRAVELING CHAOS OF IRAQ CAN'T COUNT ON THEIR DADDIES TO GET THEM OUT OF THE LINE OF FIRE."

she just has a funny way of showing it at times. I would have enjoyed her column much more without her proclaiming that we are "cowering." She's in a position of influence and would best serve her own/our cause by taking those concerns directly to the Democratic leaders. There's a big difference between her, and say any of us, being so openly critical of the Party.

in about every column, especially zingers at Bill Clinton. I e-mailed her once about a particularly good column, but pointed out that some Clinton zingers seemed added on, had nothing to do with the subject, and disrupted the flow of her writing, to the detriment of the piece.

Whoreen could care less about Democrats since she pisses on Hillary, Bill, Al Gore and the Kerrys all the times. AND she always kisses the Chimp's ass in the end. Reading her columns proves she's addicted to the brown lipstick that comes from the Chimp's ass!

She's every bit the liar that Judith Miller is and more.

calling out the President consistently when no other Op-Ed writer will, and a poster (the first, in fact) making "snarky" comments about it.

You seem to be emulating your own example of "whore extraordinaire."

common sense, writing for me to buy the NYTime again. The only one left to read that has been consistent and realistic has been Krugman. I was a faithful Dowd reader until she shacked up with the drug addict and began writing fluff.

huh?

for those of us on the outside.......

who?

thx

and say things that nobody else will say...or hasn't thought to say..