{"id":1603,"date":"2012-09-10T09:55:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2012-09-10T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:55:21","slug":"far-from-the-maddening-dowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"FAR FROM THE MADDENING DOWD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Dowd is not exactly a conservative.\u00a0 Actually, she is pretty much the voice of the liberal left and has a well-deserved reputation for slamming conservatives.\u00a0 That makes the following editorial even more devastating:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/dowd-playing-now-hail-to-us-chiefs.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/dowd-playing-now-hail-to-us-chiefs.html?_r=1&amp;hpw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This provides first hand proof that Obama\u2019s re-election campaign is in shambles.\u00a0 Please note that Ms. Dowd still hates Republicans, particularly conservative Republicans.\u00a0 She isn\u2019t exactly singing Mitt Romney\u2019s praises.\u00a0 But she finally gets Obama.\u00a0 What has been obvious to us from the start is suddenly obvious even to her.\u00a0 Obama himself is the problem.\u00a0 He is an extreme narcissist, incapable of evaluating his own performance.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t mind him blaming Bush, she enjoyed that.\u00a0 She also didn\u2019t mind him blaming Republicans, she agrees with him on that too.\u00a0 But Obama blames everyone and Maureen Dowd finally figured out that he blames her too.\u00a0 That, she cannot tolerate.<\/p>\n<p>In 1965, Lyndon Johnson said that if he had lost Cronkite, he has lost the country.\u00a0 He was right about Cronkite, but probably wrong about the American people.\u00a0 If Obama has lost Maureen Dowd, he has lost a significant portion of his base, the highly educated liberal woman.<\/p>\n<p>Listen carefully.\u00a0 That sound you hear is that of Democratic strategists all over the country throwing up.\u00a0 With friends like this, enemies are an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Dowd is not exactly a conservative.\u00a0 Actually, she is pretty much the voice of the liberal left and has a well-deserved reputation for slamming conservatives.\u00a0 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&amp;hpw This provides first hand proof &hellip; 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