Topic: Are Democrats Beginning To Awaken From An Abilene Paradox?

[Pandora]

Can't listen to him or look at him; he makes me sick.  So, I didn't watch the vid.  He really said "thingamajig"?  Might just as well have said "whatzit".  He's a moron.  Really.

[trapeze]

Drudge has headlined that for Maureen Dowd the magic is over.

[John Florida]

Can't listen to him or look at him; he makes me sick.  So, I didn't watch the vid.  He really said "thingamajig"?  Might just as well have said "whatzit".  He's a moron.  Really.

  He's the kind of idiot that you could send out to get a bucket of steam and the asshloe would go for it.

[IronDioPriest]

Drudge has headlined that for Maureen Dowd the magic is over.

When you've lost Maureen Dowd, you've.... lost Maureen Dowd.

*crickets*

[Glock32]

Drudge has headlined that for Maureen Dowd the magic is over.

When you've lost Maureen Dowd, you've.... lost Maureen Dowd.

*crickets*

I'll know for sure it's over when Cwissy Matthews no longer has the tingles.

[Libertas]

Drudge has headlined that for Maureen Dowd the magic is over.

When you've lost Maureen Dowd, you've.... lost Maureen Dowd.

*crickets*

I'll know for sure it's over when Cwissy Matthews no longer has the tingles.

He hates the tingle questions now, he keeps his tingles to himself.  Too bad he didn't come to that conclusion years ago...

But, he is a dumbass after all...

 

[trapeze]

Weekly Standard offers its opinion on Dowd's column.

But impetus of Dowd's column can be viewed in much the same light. She too might be laying down a marker in the event that Obama loses. If Obama loses, she can point to this column in five months and say she saw it coming. Recall that Dowd largely made her bones as a columnist by jumping off of Clinton's ship ahead of many of his liberal defenders when he hit the shoals of scandal.

It's best not to extrapolate too much from a few examples, but it's fair to say that Washington insiders are reading the tea leaves and increasingly preparing for a Romney victory -- especially following Friday's bad economic news. The danger for Obama is that in political campaigns perception can quickly become reality. If influential liberals such as Dowd suddenly have no problem saying Obama appears to be in over his head, pretty soon everyone will be pointing out the obvious. Thus far, Obama's meteoric rise has been largely dependent on a press that went straight from beat sweeteners to beatification. If the press turns on the president, the Obama campaign may not know what to do.

[Libertas]

"If the press turns on the president, the Obama campaign may not know what to do."

 

This of course assumes Obama & Co know what to do even when the press isn't turning on them!  But it will be funnier to me!

 

[Weisshaupt]

Roger Simon: Are Liberals the New Squares?

So we are in an era of desperation. A certain class of people who staked their lives on being cool ever since high school — whenever that was, the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, who knows — are beginning to be confronted with the truth – that their ultra-conventional received wisdom, that which they thought was cool, is a bunch of hooey. (I was one of them, so I know.)

Of course, most can’t countenance this. They continue to believe that government spending is cool, that it is a good thing (how square is that?), but out of the corner of their ears they are beginning to hear a different song....

What makes modern liberalism the mess that it is today is that it is mainly composed of people who desperately wanted to be cool in high school – wanted to be Abbie Hoffman or Eldridge Cleaver – but never were. Their longing – this need to be Abbie – has clouded their thinking and their ability to perceive reality, placing us all in a mess along with them.

Meanwhile, Bob Dylan became a conservative.

When MichelleO and I started putting in the Solar and the Greenhouse we were told by some resident liberals that once we were done we would be the "cool kids" on the block.  Even back then, I took it as an insult.

[Pandora]

I'd have been insulted as well.  "Cool" is an adolescent concept that one discards as one matures in favor of integrity, character, and honor and self-reliance.

Perhaps, for those who have never grown out of that phase, "cool" is personified by those qualities.