Maureen Dowd has a few words for Paul Ryan....

[jillan]

[img][/img]

[snappyturtle]

1. K&R Perfect! nt

[spanone]

2. k&r...

[LuckyLib]

3. K & R! Go Maureen!

[avebury]

4. K&R nt

[lunatica]

5. Though I may hate doing so, I have to agree with her

Maureen Dowd lost me when she talked incessantly about what Al Gore was wearing before the Supreme Court selected Bush.

I'm sure she was witty at some point in her life, but it's turned into nasty bitterness over the years.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. I love her and hate her by turns...

Sometimes she's spot on, and other times I just scratch my head and wonder what she's thinking.

[jillan]

7. I'm with you. I'm not a fan of hers either. But this time she was spot on.

[calimary]

12. I hated that, too.

She mocked him mercilessly.

But sometimes she does make a lot of sense.

That said - she doesn't like paul ryan? She doesn't like what he stands for? Well, maureen, YOU helped enable the ascent of Neanderthal bastards like him. Every time you take your snarky little potshots at liberals and Dems, you further the ambitions of beasts like him.

[steve2470]

8. k&r nt

[longship]

10. Spot on.

Unlike some here, without equivocation.

R&

[Honeycombe8]

11. No one writes like Dowd. The most clever, artistic person with a pen I've ever read. nt

[WCGreen]

15. you should read more....

she's good, I'll admit, but she depends too much on "Hey, look at me" instead ot using that great platform she has for more than being snarkalisous

[Honeycombe8]

17. I read plenty. She's one of the best. If her name were "Maury" Dowd, you'd agree. nt

[WCGreen]

18. I hope you jest and am not calling me a misogynist because I disagree with you...

Because that would be kind of a personal attack.

[Honeycombe8]

19. You mean like your personal attack on me that I obviously don't read much?

Because I have an opinion on someone's creativity that differs from yours? You mean a personal attack like that?

Yeah, I agree you should watch that tendency to attack people personally just because you disagree with their opinion on mundane things like a columnist's writing ability. You're gonna end up with a heart attack if you get that upset by such mundane things.

[CBHagman]

22. I really doubt that!

I know you weren't directing that comment at me, but I want to jump in here and agree with those who have essentially said that Dowd has been at the very least inconsistent both in her focus and her writing. An op-ed writer is a lot like a comedian: You can judge him/her by the targets he/she chooses and the spirit that informs the material.

As for her writing skills in general, some days she's on top of things, crisp and bitingly funny, and sometime she crashes. Of course that's to be expected (I can't count the number of times I've read something a male columnist seems to have phoned in), but frankly I wouldn't rate her as one of the more memorable op-ed writers. I think of Molly Ivins' warmth and good moral sense, as well as her fully operational bullshit detector, and of Mary McGrory's fundamental decency and her carefully crafted prose.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. I like her writing style, too, but her positions on things sometimes seem a little random.

[Rowdyboy]

13. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day....Ms Dowd? Meh...maybe once-on a good day

Still, she 100% right in this instance and I give her full credit for it!

She does photograph well though.

[K Gardner]

14. Nobody preaches it like Maureen. n/t

[fascisthunter]

16. he's just another sociopath

and right wingers who adore people like him are probably sociopaths or victims who have embraced sociopathy in order to survive mentally.

[jsr]

20. And that was before his despicable convention speech