07.13.2009 5:47 pm
Maureen Dowd needs to do some soul-searching
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
After reading Maureen Dowd’s satire, “Sarah’s secret diary” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (7/9/09), which I found to be ugly, caustic and humorless with a tinge of jealousy, I spent some time reading Dominican Fr. Walter Farrell’s “Companion to the Summa” Vol. IV, which references St. Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica.”
I came across the following which I think is apropos. During Christ’s public life, “Men were not anxious to give up the things that the perfection of the Lawgiver and His law demanded. Something of this crops up in the daily life of every age when the pure are mocked by the impure, the just by the unjust, the truthful by liars, the merciful by the pitiless, the wise by the stupid, the industrious by the lazy, not that those things are not valued; rather, because the recognition of them in others constitutes a stinging and constant rebuke”
Maureen needs to do some soul searching. We all do.
E. Franzen
Chesterfield
Bill:
“Does being a Republican grandmother to an illegitimate grandson count as “family?””
Of course it does Bill, but had that illegitimate grandson been aborted at the end of the third trimester and tossed into a dumpster behind a clinic, her party registration would have to be changed to Democratic.
“What happened to those Republican “family values?” Ask Mr. Sanford!
When will we practice what we preach? The Neocon Party is in shambles!”
This is too silly for comment when awareness must be raised when a Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse habitat is threatened or Herb or Walter, whichever is more effiminate, is preparing to toss the wedding bouquet.
The modern Republican party began with the election of Ronald Reagan and ended with John McCain’s nomination of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Republicans should run away from her as fast as they possibly can.
EJ Robert, You’ve got to be kidding!
Are you talking about the same Maureen Dowd that couldn’t remember reading someone else’s column when she plagerized it?
Maureen hates successful conservative women because it goes against everything she believes in. She may claim to be a feminist but apparently it does not make her immune to jealousy of other women.
jmas… So Dowd might have lifted from another writer. When it all boils down to it, who doesn’t, in some form or fashion? Who really ever has an original thought? Few, if any. At least Dowd would do her own writing and, I’m sure, is able to string together coherent sentences when speaking.
Well hopefully Caribou Barbie will take her rightful place in the neocon trinity.
Rush
W.
Milfy Wolf-Huntress
And people wonder why the Republics are the new Whigs.
Peggy Noonan’s WSJ article on Sarah Barraquitter…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html
— Lisa12
11:33 pm July 13th, 2009
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Wow!
Guess we can add Noonan to the growing list of right wing columnists getting death threats for dissing Mrs. Palin.
Pass the popcorn!
Amazing that those posting criticism of Maureen Dowd and Peggy Noonan are men. The woman see Sarah Palin for what she is. Regardless of their party affiliation. Kathleen Parker a moderate republican and Peggy Noonan a conservative until she appeared on Oprah last fall seems to have slipped more to the middle. Last fall Kathleen Parker wrote an editorial on Sarah Palin and received death threats. Could be their own parties actions created their shift to the middle. I believe Sarah Palin scares most woman and does not represent any females with conservative views.
To the “holier than thou” E. Frazen using quotes from the bible to compare to the criticism Palin receives is another attempt of spinning the “morals and values lie” the conservatives like to believe they hold above others.
The values of Cheney and his torture and above the law mentality do not help their cause.
Sarah Palin is out for Sarah only. She is now coveted by the conservatives because they have no other politician to represent them.
She can now make millions writing a book and making speeches to ensure Todd and Sarah can retire to the good life in Alaska. Bye Bye Sarah!
“Palling around with Terroists” like she accused Obama of came back to bite her in the Ass.
Juanita,
Hey Girl! Caribou Barbie just cannot decide what to do or what to wear. Cute fishing outfit or the business suit. Decisions, Decisions!
Have you done any “soul searching” lately?
I could search my soul till the “cows come home” and still would not think much of Sarah Palin. She does not respresent many females in this Country.
So the Bible can critique her critics, but can it defend her?
Its obvious that Palin couln’t handle the situation she put herself in - so she took the easy way out and had an abortion - not a medical one, but one just as convenient - she chose an abortion to end her obligations to take care of the lives of Alaskans.
And boy did she use those people - she quit because she has a “higher calling” as if the “little people” who elected her suddenly don’t count anymore.
She’ll find out that throughout history, great American have taken responsibility for their actions and persevered. No one gets ahead in this country by quitting.
Well said David!
QUITTERS NEVER WIN AND WINNERS NEVER QUIT!
I use that line with my children all the time!