Maureen Dowd, queen bee liberal, is caught in junior high school. Poor Maureen never grew up. She has the perspective of a teenager rather than the post-middle-aged woman that she is.
She writes about "Republican Mean Girls" with all the angst of a 13-year-old.
We are in the era of Republican Mean Girls, grown-up versions of those teenage tormentors who would steal your boyfriend, spray-paint your locker and, just for good measure, spread rumors that you were pregnant.
These women — Jan, Meg, Carly, Sharron, Linda, Michele, Queen Bee Sarah and sweet wannabe Christine — have co-opted and ratcheted up the disgust with the status quo that originally buoyed Barack Obama. Whether they’re mistreating the help or belittling the president’s manhood, making snide comments about a rival’s hair or ripping an opponent for spending money on a men’s fashion show, the Mean Girls have replaced Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold. They are the ideal nihilistic cheerleaders for an angry electorate.
No one is more of a tormentor, no one is more snide, no one is more cold than Dowd.
Funny that the ultimate Liberal Mean Girl would be ripping on women playing in what's still a male-dominated world - politics.
Dowd has zero tolerance for conservative women.
Like her fellow Leftists, she wants to destroy them. Dowd, however, is using a different approach than her comrades. So far, most of the attackers smear the conservative female candidates as extremists and nuts. Dowd tries another angle, probably because those slurs haven't been effective.
Dowd attempts to dip into a sensitive psychological place and manipulate memories she hopes will resonate with the public. She casts the Republican candidates, those strong and talented women, as Mean Girls.
I don't know if Dowd really sees them as Mean Girls. Is she that immature and insecure and screwed up?
Could be.
Dowd actually criticizes the Mean Girls while simultaneously being one herself.
...“Man up, Harry Reid,” Sharron Angle taunted him at their Las Vegas debate here Thursday night. That’s not an idle insult, coming from a woman who campaigns at times with a .44 Magnum revolver in her 1989 GMC pickup.
With casino red suit and lipstick, Angle played the Red Queen of the Mad Hatter tea party, denouncing career politicians and ordering “Off with your head!” and “Down with government benefits!” Even sober and smiling beneath her girlish bangs, the 61-year-old Angle had the slightly threatening air of the inebriated lady in a country club bar, tossing off outrageous statements and daring anyone to call her on them.
The debate between the former boxer and the former competitive weight lifter, the soft-spoken Mormon and the outspoken Christian, was a source of fascination because the rivals perfectly represent the two caricatures of the midterms: The Washington incumbent and master of back-room deals who’s been around forever and lost touch with people versus the wacky new-breed Tea Party challenger who’s hiding from and hating on the press, spouting a lot of weird stuff and vowing to do what Barack Obama didn’t: Shake up Washington.
...Angle has been pressing the case, underwritten by Karl Rove’s operation and other conservative groups that have made the majority leader their No. 1 target, that Reid must be punished for being in a socialist triumvirate with Nancy Pelosi and President Obama. In the debate, she went for the jugular, asking him how he became “one of the richest men in the Senate” after coming from Searchlight “with very little.”
Reid, who cloaks his ambition and brass knuckles under a mousy facade, looked as if she had slapped him. He called her “my friend,” but clearly did not think of her as his “pet,” as he unfortunately dubbed Chris Coons, the Delaware opponent of the bewitching Christine O’Donnell.
He said that was “really kind of a low blow,” adding that he had been a successful lawyer before becoming a pol, and “did a very good job in investing.”
Aside from their political differences and policy positions, Dowd should be championing these strong women.
Doesn't she admire them for fearlessly taking on their male opponents rather than cowering, weak and defenseless?
It seems Dowd wants women to revert to being seen and barely heard. (Actually, she wants only conservative women to be silenced.)
She also employs a sickening double standard when it comes to judging Republican women. Compare that with her tolerance for the behavior exhibited by male candidates.
Dowd didn't call Obama a Mean Boy when he went for the jugular on John McCain. She doesn't call him a Mean Boy when he goes for the jugular as he attacks "the other side" now.
Obama has made the demonization of his political opponents an art form, yet he doesn't get the label Mean Boy. His cruelty and divisiveness don't earn him that title from Dowd.
Dowd is inconsistent. She doesn't make sense. In short, she's true to form.
Speaking of Republican Mean Girls, to my knowledge the candidates cited by Dowd haven't resorted to physical violence like Democrat Mean Girls.
Oh, yes. Democrat girls can be very, VERY mean.
One example: Democrat Cynthia McKinney.
When McKinney was in Congress, she verbally slapped around a Capitol police officer and actually punched him.
That's mean.
Another example: Democrat Milele Coggs.
Alderwoman Milele Coggs of Milwaukee's 6th District hit a poll worker with her car after she got into an argument with him.
That's really mean, much worse than girls who would "steal your boyfriend" and "spread rumors that you were pregnant."
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