Now, Sarah’s Folly [Maureen Down In Psychiatric Breakdown Mold!]

NYTimes ^ | July 04th 2009

[Steelfish]

Now, Sarah’s Folly

By MAUREEN DOWD Published: July 4, 2009

WASHINGTON

Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president.

Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.

Usually we don’t find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they’ve been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate (Nixon), gnawing problems like Vietnam (L.B.J.), or scary threats like biological terrorism (Cheney).

When Lyndon Johnson was president, some of his staff began to think of him as “a sick man,” as Bill Moyers told Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Moyers and his fellow Johnson aide Dick Goodwin even began reading up on mental illness — Bill on manic depression and Dick on paranoia.

And so it was, Todd Purdum learned, as he traveled Alaska reporting on Palin for Vanity Fair, that the governor’s erratic and egoistic behavior has been a source of concern for people there.

“Several told me, independently of one another,” Purdum writes, “that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’ — and thought it fit her perfectly.”

The White House can drive its inhabitants loopy. So at least Sarah Palin is ahead of the curve on that one.

As Alaskans settled in to enjoy holiday salmon bakes and the post-solstice thaw, their governor had a solipsistic meltdown so strange it made Sparky Sanford look like a model of stability.

[healy61]

Using the DSM for diagnosing ones associates, friend or business. That is rich. Let me try. Let me. Maureen Dowd is bipolar type II. This is easier than I thought.

[Bratch]

[Mr_Moonlight]

When Lyndon Johnson was president, some of his staff began to think of him as “a sick man,” as Bill Moyers told Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Moyers and his fellow Johnson aide Dick Goodwin even began reading up on mental illness — Bill on manic depression and Dick on paranoia.

Sounds like a regurgitated scene out of "Caine Mutiny" ... please MoDo, regurgitate some more .... /shrug

[BigCinBigD]

One word. Sounds like...runt.

[thecabal]

Cupid Stunt?

[airborne]

Can’t Understand Normal Thinking

[SolidWood]

I stopped reading at Maureen Dead.

[airborne]

I love these threads, if only for the CZJ photos!

But I didn’t recall what Mo Dowd looked like so I did a search. Yikes!

No wonder Mike dumped the frump!

[ninonitti]

See you next tuesday?

[BigCinBigD]

Bingo!

[gov_bean_ counter]

There remain only two reasons I ever click on a MODO thread. I appreciate it when I don't have to stay on the thread any longer than necessary.
Thank you.

[alexander_busek]

[Maureen Down In Psychiatric Breakdown Mold!]

Don't you mean "Psychiatric Breakdown Mode"?

Regards,

[gov_bean_ counter]

I dunno, MODO is getting pretty long in the tooth, so there may be some mold involved too...

[carcraft]

Who cares what MoDO writes, doesn't she write in a left wing laying piece of trash bankrupt paper that can't even pass the muster as fish wrap ?

[killer_rat]

Would you expect anything less from this catty, insecure bitch? I mean, for God’s sake, she couldn’t even hold on to the incontinent Michael Douglas. He’s older than the dirt he sleeps in.

[elhombrelibre]

I assume they were looking up narcissistic disorder because of Obama, correct, Ms Dowd?

[abigail2]

You wish she was one nutty puppy, because your type can’t understand anything else...and that will be your downfall!

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Prepare yourself for that other pseudo-intellectual, inside-the-beltway, elitist, mental-midget, RINO, Parker to weigh in on this either today or tomorrow.

That loony B*tch has been attacking Palin unmercifully since she was tapped for VP and this will not doubt give her ammo to write yet another hit piece.

While NO ONE but the moonbats take here seriously, she has been elevated to "Star Status" by the left cuz she poses as a Republican.

All I can say to everyone, is why not take a deep breath and give this some time to play out before joining in on the vultures who are picking her bones already as I am CONFIDENT, Sarah is far from having expired, and she is in fact, going to be a much greater force for the Liberal-Loons and RINO's to contend with.

[freekitty]

ROTFLOL These people have absolutely nothing to say. They all bleat the same tune. No wonder how country is trouble.

[BILL_C]

gnawing problems like Vietnam (L.B.J.)

The liberals still haven’t figured out that LBJ and Hoover killed JFK, have they? Come think of it, FREEPERS haven’t either. Everybody is still waiting for the US Government and the lapdog press to tell them the “truth.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpHSyuueMU

And you wonder how Obama got elected?

[Howie]

“Hell hath no fury like a burned out old w _ _ _ _”

Clue: the word isn’t woman.

[personalaccts]

her newspaper is going bankrupt................

[melsec]

Has Maureen ever heard of Cognitive Disonance. Maybe she needs to have a chat to a professional ‘friend’.

Mel

[lowbuck]

I also think Sarah is far from done. By stepping back she can use her popularity to get other good Republicans elected in the lower 48 in the 2010 cycle. Plus, she builds her base and organization.

I think that she connects with people (Republican, Democrat, whatever) at a gut level and these people are desperate to find someone who talks their lingo and promises to go to Washington to represent them.

Also, she is young. Even is she shoots for the bottom of the ticket in 2012 after eight years as VP no one can say she doesn't have the qualification.

However, as we have seen the folks will go for a half term senator, what the heck, I guess a half term governor is qualified enough.

[Dahoser]

I'm sure the rules say more than one is required.

[TheOldLady]

Alan Funt?

[BilLies]

The Dowdy Mo is like an old whore trolling the streets trying to recapture the time she had something to sell. Go away strega.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The dowdy one is just mad because no man is interested in her. Perhaps if she would lose the fangs and vicious bitter anger an occasional man would talk to her once in a while.

[carcraft]

MoDO having hit the big time with plagiarism is expanding her fields by attempting to write for a newspaper that aspires to achieve the status of bird cage liner and fish wrap!

[Venturer]

She really needs to get laid.

Something to take her mind of her insane jealousy.

[UltraKonservativen]

YOU DA MAN!!! THANKS.

[Rumplemeyer]

And very badly it seems.

[KC_Conspirator]

Indeed, Can’t Understand Normal Thinking.

[6SJ7]

I seem to have, thankfully, forgotten what the article was about.

[sonic109]

I don’t know who the F she is ? who cares, why even bother posting an article from whoever this ass clown is anyway.

[Ditter]

Apparently MoDo doesn't realize how funny it is for HER to call someone else a “nutty puppy”. ha!

[Howie]

Speculation: She especially resents Sarah because she knows she could be a REAL writer if she wanted to be and just may do something with her newfound fame just like that. (TV?)

[randita]

Play into Sarah’s hands, Mo. You and all the other rabid liberal women pundits will show us all that you really don’t care a whit about women and women’s issues. Your main goal in life is to destroy conservatives.

By attacking Sarah, you will endear her to a majority of American women who identify with her.

[conejo99]

Since the first step is winning the Republican primaries, what we think is much more important than what Ms. Down thinks. At this point Obama looks like he will win a second term (I hope not!). Any number of player's could decide to sit this race out until it's too late to jump in. I think the Republican nomination is Sarah's if she wants it. Then the presidential race should be a referendum on Obama’s 1st term.

[EggsAckley]

meltdown mold?

[Steelfish]

That’s no Maureen Dowd look-alike.

[Steelfish]

yes- correction accepted. Thanks

[RichInOC]

Quick, who’s saner: Maureen Dowd or Sarah Palin? Don’t think about it too long.

[TwoSue]

Better yet, email a picture of CZJ to Dowd whenever she writes idiotic things.

[chiefqc]

MAUREEN DOWD - an old, ugly bottom feeder who talk like she has a mouth full of shi*.

[trisham]

I wonder what Dowdy’s screen name is here on FR? I've seen a number of posters recently that appear to be good candidates.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

“Several told me, independently of one another,” Purdum writes, “that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’ — and thought it fit her perfectly.”

I just read that far-fetched and outlandish lie in another article, and now Maureen Dowd is repeating it? Figures. They all take their talking points from one another. One makes up the lie, and all the others spread it - like mud. It's what they know best.

[Yankee]

Poor old prune-faced Maureen.

Even her vibrator won’t go near her anymore.

[Snurple]