NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Should Maureen Dowd Be On Aricept?
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has this to say about the revelation that the McCain campaign outfitted AK Gov. Sarah Palin with pricey duds before she made her debut to the nation as the GOP veep nominee:
McCain advisers have been scathing about the “sexism” of critics who dismiss Sarah Palin as Caribou Barbie.
How odd then, to learn that McCain advisers have been treating their own vice presidential candidate like Valentino Barbie, dressing her up in fancy clothes and endlessly playing with her hair. …
[W]ith the economy cratering and the McCain campaign running on an “average Joe” theme, dunderheaded aides, led by the former Bushies Nicolle Wallace and Tracey Schmitt, costumed their Eliza Doolittle for a ball when she should have been dressing for a bailout. …
Palin made her big speech at the convention wearing a $2,500 cream silk Valentino jacket that the McCain staff had gotten her at Saks. …
Palin should have been savvy enough to tell those doing her makeover that she was a Wal-Mart mom.
This would be the same Maureen Dowd who mocked Palin (third item) as “our new Napoleon in bunny boots (not the Pamela Anderson kind, but the knock-offs of the U.S. Army Extreme Cold Weather Vapor Barrier Boots)” And then there’s the inconvenient fact that when the Dems and Repubs mounted their respective nominating conventions, Lehman Brothers and AIG were still solvent for all any of us knew.
Dowd has never been known for her consistency of logic, but the poor dear is getting on in years and it’s becoming increasingly clear that her memory has started to slip – not only she’s forgotten her date of birth, she can’t even remember what she’s written in her recent columns.
Jealousy is a thing to be pitied. Dowd is sad.
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