Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: Dowd v. Dean

Oh wow. Howard Dean won't answer Maureen Dowd's phone calls.

Love, spurned. Tragic, really, tragic. So now she calls him a phony:

But a race rooted mainly in attacking the president may not take Dr. Dean far enough. Voters want someone who's been through the fire. They care about character. They want to know the evolution of the man, even if it's a myth.

Personally, I'm caught where to come down on this one. I mean, a good slam on Dean that you can't attribute to right-wing bias--how rare. On the other hand, Dowd here sounds like the editor of the high school newspaper who, annoyed that the quarterback she fancied won't take her to the prom, decides to rip into his on-field skills in her next column. You just can't take the woman seriously.

But I can see why he didn't give the lady a date: that fate would be worse. I mean, how silly would Dean look now if a flattering Dowd-piece in the New York Times showed up with scribbles of unicorns and rainbows, with all the i's dotted with hearts?

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Giving The Devil His Due

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Eh, not so rare really. Dean's a favorite target of the Left Establishment as much as he is of the Right Wing (possibly more so in this Primaries stage). I've seen far more paid advertisements attacking Dean for being too Conservative on Medicare, Social Security and even the War on Iraq. Pro-Palestinians activists are very wary of him, given public expressions of support for Sharon and the fact that he took an AIPAC-sponsored tour of Israel. I think this is what a lot of people don't get about Dean ... he's equally a target for the Right and the Left. (Which might explain his popularity amongst the rest of us!)

Posted by: John | January 18, 2004 4:13 PM

I doubt that Dowd would have wirtten much positive about him even if he had bothered to call her (though I was under the impression that politicians like getting in the paper even if in a negative context). John, now that you say Dean has been criticized for being against Palestininas. That is the most positive thing I have heard about him in about a year and a half.

Posted by: Avi Frisch | January 18, 2004 4:40 PM

Pro Sharon? I seem to remember Dean saying that we shouldn't "take sides" in the conflict. It is also funny to me that I consider such a thought as a disqualifier to be President, while others take it to be a positive. Politics are strange.

Posted by: David | January 18, 2004 11:36 PM

Um, is the author of this drivel some kind of influential columnist? Or to put it another way, why should we care?

Posted by: Martin | January 19, 2004 8:05 AM

lol---Unicorns and rainbows.

Posted by: Sean S | January 19, 2004 1:10 PM