Maureen Dowd is not exactly a conservative.  Actually, she is pretty much the voice of the liberal left and has a well-deserved reputation for slamming conservatives.  That makes the following editorial even more devastating:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-playing-now-hail-to-us-chiefs.html?_r=1&hpw

This provides first hand proof that Obama’s re-election campaign is in shambles.  Please note that Ms. Dowd still hates Republicans, particularly conservative Republicans.  She isn’t exactly singing Mitt Romney’s praises.  But she finally gets Obama.  What has been obvious to us from the start is suddenly obvious even to her.  Obama himself is the problem.  He is an extreme narcissist, incapable of evaluating his own performance.  She didn’t mind him blaming Bush, she enjoyed that.  She also didn’t mind him blaming Republicans, she agrees with him on that too.  But Obama blames everyone and Maureen Dowd finally figured out that he blames her too.  That, she cannot tolerate.

In 1965, Lyndon Johnson said that if he had lost Cronkite, he has lost the country.  He was right about Cronkite, but probably wrong about the American people.  If Obama has lost Maureen Dowd, he has lost a significant portion of his base, the highly educated liberal woman.

Listen carefully.  That sound you hear is that of Democratic strategists all over the country throwing up.  With friends like this, enemies are an improvement.

TDM