Word: dowd
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McCain's top aide rejected outright the notion that McCain had been changed by former handlers of President George W. Bush, like Steve Schmidt, the McCain strategist who had worked with Karl Rove in 2004. "This sort of Maureen Dowd nonsense, comic-book theorizing about the Bushies who hijacked McCain - she can never write a serious column," he said of the New York Times columnist. "It's just nonsense. Everybody, everybody felt a personal responsibility to protect McCain's reputation...
...American. And I choose to fight." It is impossible to say what McCain's fate would have been if he had taken this tough but traditional tack and also chosen Senator Joe Lieberman, the Vice President he really wanted, as former George W. Bush strategist Matthew Dowd suggested he should have done. No doubt, given the political tides, Obama would still be ahead, but McCain would seem a more plausible alternative and still have his honor intact...
...ago” as “lizards of Satan” with the manifest destiny that they would die and become “petroleum products.” Bloggers and pundits quickly picked up on this and continued the buzz. The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, in a September 9 column asked, “Does she really think Adams, Eve, Satan, and the dinosaurs mingled on the earth 5,000 years ago?” Matt Damon added to the debate, and an Internet rumor was off and running.However, this rumor is much different than...
...realize there's a contradiction in that. Unlike the vast majority of critics, I don't want to affect people's opinions. Take a George Will column or a Maureen Dowd column. I don't see either as having any benefit whatsoever to anyone. I think they're actually trying to stop people from thinking critically. I'm interested in hearing every side to an issue, but it's strange when somebody seems to be working from a position of certitude. It bothers me how - and now more than ever - that's rewarded by the media. When I got into...
...Comprehensive immigration reform was the centerpiece of his effort to court the Latino voters whom strategists like [Karl] Rove and [Matthew] Dowd considered crucial to the party's future fortunes," Brownstein wrote. "It was also Bush's best chance for an important second-term legislative achievement after the collapse of his Social Security plan, not to mention an opportunity to make substantive progress against an entrenched problem. But Bush's overriding priority on unifying Republicans prevented him from achieving any of those goals. Instead, he was left with an immigration policy built solely around enforcement and symbolized by an exclusionary...