Awww: Maureen Dowd Does Not Like Progressive Puritans

[SweetSue92]

Folks I knew this Democrat Civil War was bad....but now we have Maureen Dowd calling out the "Progressive Puritans" in her own party.

WHOA

Seems the criticism of a party she threw for high-fliers like Pelosi and Schumer really got to her, which launched the article below. So far her article has not made a dent: she's getting ratio'd on Twitter as I type this.

My my my. Whatever will the Democrats do to solve this dilemma??

This entire article is worth the read:

WASHINGTON — After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good pumps.

Then this week, lefty Twitter erected a digital guillotine because I had a book party for my friend Carl Hulse, The Times’s authority on Capitol Hill for decades, attended by family, journalists, Hill denizens and a smattering of lawmakers, including Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins.

I, the daughter of a D.C. cop, and Carl, the son of an Illinois plumber, were hilariously painted as decadent aristocrats reveling like Marie Antoinette when we should have been knitting like Madame Defarge.

Yo, proletariat: If the Democratic Party is going to be against chocolate, high heels, parties and fun, you’ve lost me. And I’ve got some bad news for you about 2020.

The progressives are the modern Puritans. The Massachusetts Bay Colony is alive and well on the Potomac and Twitter.

They eviscerate their natural allies for not being pure enough while placing all their hopes in a color-inside-the-lines lifelong Republican prosecutor appointed by Ronald Reagan.

The politics of purism makes people stupid. And nasty.

My father stayed up all night the night Truman was elected because he was so excited. I would like to stay up ’til dawn the night a Democrat wins next year because I’m so excited to see the moment when the despicable Donald Trump lumbers into a Marine helicopter and flies away for good.

But Democrats are making that dream ever more distant because they are using their time knifing one another and those who want to be on their side instead of playing it smart.

Spare Me the Purity Racket

 

[JoeB131]

Maureen Dowd is one of those people who must have pictures of an editor in a compromising position, it's the only way to explain why her drivel gets printed.

 

[SweetSue92]

Maureen Dowd is one of those people who must have pictures of an editor in a compromising position, it's the only way to explain why her drivel gets printed.

And as if to prove her point, here comes Joe with the metaphorical pitchfork.

Man oh man. 2020 looking better and better.

 

[gtopa1]

Maureen Dowd is one of those people who must have pictures of an editor in a compromising position, it's the only way to explain why her drivel gets printed.

I agree but she's usually driveling on your mob!!! lmao

Greg

 

[JoeB131]

And as if to prove her point, here comes Joe with the metaphorical pitchfork.

Man oh man. 2020 looking better and better.

Not really. Once the Democrats pick a candidate, we'll all be behind him. So will a lot of sensible Republicans who want to end the daily insanity.

 

[cnm]

Maureen Dowd is one of those people who must have pictures of an editor in a compromising position, it's the only way to explain why her drivel gets printed.

She always seemed unhappy with Obama, to me. Why was that do you think, was he too progressive?

 

[SweetSue92]

And as if to prove her point, here comes Joe with the metaphorical pitchfork.

Man oh man. 2020 looking better and better.

Not really. Once the Democrats pick a candidate, we'll all be behind him. So will a lot of sensible Republicans who want to end the daily insanity.

Oh that remains to be seen for sure.

Joe Biden--a LOT of purist Progressives will not be behind him

Bernie Sanders--a LOT of Americans will not be behind him

And etc right down the line. You have big problems.

 

[JoeB131]

Maureen Dowd is one of those people who must have pictures of an editor in a compromising position, it's the only way to explain why her drivel gets printed.

She always seemed unhappy with Obama, to me. Why was that do you think, was he too progressive?

My problem with Dowd's writing is that she was generally vapid overall. So I had just as many problems with her when she ripped on Bush for generally shallow reasons.

 

[JoeB131]

Oh that remains to be seen for sure.

Joe Biden--a LOT of purist Progressives will not be behind him

Bernie Sanders--a LOT of Americans will not be behind him

And etc right down the line. You have big problems.

Not really. When people look at the prospect of another four years of crazy racist Twitter on the Shitter, they'll get behind whoever the Dems put up.

My guess, the Dems will probably meet somewhere in the middle and nominate Warren.

 

[SweetSue92]

Maureen Dowd is one of those people who must have pictures of an editor in a compromising position, it's the only way to explain why her drivel gets printed.

She always seemed unhappy with Obama, to me. Why was that do you think, was he too progressive?

My problem with Dowd's writing is that she was generally vapid overall. So I had just as many problems with her when she ripped on Bush for generally shallow reasons.

Her writing may be "vapid" but her premise is not. The Democrats have a Civil War going on; it's much discussed. She's been the target of it and she's discussing it openly here.

 

[karpenter]

So will a lot of sensible Republicans who want to end the daily insanity.

HA-HAA !!

Do Tell Of The Announced Candidates
Which One That Could Be

You Have Someone In The Wings
With A Different Platform Than All The Rest ??

 

[pknopp]

It isn't bad. We need more than one party which is what we have had now for a long time.

 

[SweetSue92]

Oh that remains to be seen for sure.

Joe Biden--a LOT of purist Progressives will not be behind him

Bernie Sanders--a LOT of Americans will not be behind him

And etc right down the line. You have big problems.

Not really. When people look at the prospect of another four years of crazy racist Twitter on the Shitter, they'll get behind whoever the Dems put up.

My guess, the Dems will probably meet somewhere in the middle and nominate Warren.

Democrats are convinced Trump is racist. They believe EVERYONE thinks Trump is racist.

"Everyone" does not. The problem with Democrats is that even AFTER Trump won--which should have really shocked them into something sensible--they still think in a bubble. They believe either people see Trump the way they do, or they are insane or Morally Flawed.

Please just keep that up, I mean it, straight through Nov. 2020. Because that's a guaranteed win for us no matter who you nominate.

 

[pknopp]

Oh that remains to be seen for sure.

Joe Biden--a LOT of purist Progressives will not be behind him

Bernie Sanders--a LOT of Americans will not be behind him

And etc right down the line. You have big problems.

Not really. When people look at the prospect of another four years of crazy racist Twitter on the Shitter, they'll get behind whoever the Dems put up.

My guess, the Dems will probably meet somewhere in the middle and nominate Warren.

I am no fan of Trump and I will never vote for him but I'll not vote for just anyone either. There is a growing number like myself.

 

[SweetSue92]

It isn't bad. We need more than one party which is what we have had now for a long time.

Okay but that's not going to happen. Not for 2020. Not for 2024, in all likelihood.

 

[pknopp]

It isn't bad. We need more than one party which is what we have had now for a long time.

Okay but that's not going to happen. Not for 2020. Not for 2024, in all likelihood.

If you wish to run Republican lite, count me out

 

[JoeB131]

Her writing may be "vapid" but her premise is not. The Democrats have a Civil War going on; it's much discussed. She's been the target of it and she's discussing it openly here.

Yawn, people say this every time a nomination is contested... and at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter.

 

[JoeB131]

Democrats are convinced Trump is racist. They believe EVERYONE thinks Trump is racist.

"Everyone" does not. The problem with Democrats is that even AFTER Trump won--which should have really shocked them into something sensible--they still think in a bubble. They believe either people see Trump the way they do, or they are insane or Morally Flawed.

Please just keep that up, I mean it, straight through Nov. 2020. Because that's a guaranteed win for us no matter who you nominate.

That's true. Other racists don't think Trump is a racist.

Most sensible people listen to "Shithole Countries" and "Rat-infested Neighborhoods" and "Send her back" and yup, they see a racist.

But then again, you claim to be a Christian and think it's okay that Trump fucks porn stars and pays them to keep quiet... just like Jesus would have done!

 

[karpenter]

It isn't bad. We need more than one party which is what we have had now for a long time.

Libertarians Have Been On The Ballot Of All 50 States
For Over 25yrs
Why Are There No Libertarians Holding National Office

 

[JoeB131]

Libertarians Have Been On The Ballot Of All 50 States
For Over 25yrs
Why Are There No Libertarians Holding National Office

Because they are right wing hippies?