Dowd: Dudgeons and Dragons

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Dudgeons and Dragons

DES MOINES--I went to Iowa hunting Howard Dean. His campaign said he might give me five minutes. On the phone.

At first, five minutes sounded pretty cursory. But I decided to be philosophical. Out of his 15 minutes of angry fame, Howard Dean was willing to devote a third of it to me.

How best to figure out someone who comes out of nowhere and wants to lead the world in five minutes?

I quizzed Tom Harkin, Mr. Iowa, about why he had endorsed Dr. Dean, even though it infuriated his spurned Senate buddy John Kerry and disappointed fellow Midwesterner Dick Gephardt. Senator Harkin didn't seem especially close to the Vermont governor. At the 2002 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner here, he twice called the Democrat John Dean (as Martin Sheen did in a speech here last week).

"He's a fire hydrant," Mr. Harkin said over dinner at Bambino's in Cumming. "If you kick it, it's going to hurt you. But it's stable and secure and there when you need it."

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Dudgeons and Dragons

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[aquart]

1. Golly, Maureen, maybe you should have been paying attention.

Five minutes isn't long enough for anything but the hatchet job you were obviously planning.

"Out of his 15 minutes of angry fame." Well, isn't that special.

So she's going to Clintonize Dean. What a girl.

She's already Hillaried his wife.

[The Zanti Regent]

7. The Whore Can't Help It!

WHORE ALERT!

"Dr. Dean has certainly proved he's tough. The press critiques on him — "hotheaded," "arrogant," "mercurial," "a jerk" — echo the knocks on W., back before "the Roman candle" of the Bush family ran for Texas governor and transformed himself into a disciplined and genial campaigner."

ONCE AGAIN WHOREEN HAS THE HOTS FOR BUSH.

DEVELOPING--DOES WHOREEN HAVE A BLUE DRESS???--DEVELOPING!

[Eric J in MN]

8. Dowd is writing about George W.'s campaign presentaion, she's not

Maureen Dowd is writing about George W.'s campaign presentation, she's not calling him wonderful.

[The Zanti Regent]

9. She called Bush a "DISCIPLINED AND GENIAL CAMPAIGNER"

What has that liar called Dean and Clark?

[boxster]

2. I'd say that she was much more relatively positive than most people,

particularly Dean supporters, were expecting. She didn't even really complain about not getting her five minutes, and she made a couple of reasonable arguments/suggestions.

The people who jumped up and down on her mercilessly based on Drudge's early posting of a portion of this article obviously had very little to worry about.

[papau]

3. I agree - Mo was nice for Mo!

:-)

[pansypoo53219]

4. if only Clinton had made a pass at her

she wouldn't be such a flaming bitch.

[Cocoa]

5. this line is a classic

While I was waiting for him to call, I grew more and more afraid that he'd get angry at me for wasting his time with piffle.

I bet Dean was smarter than that, I bet he just saved himself the irritation and decided to blow her off. :-)

[DrBB]

6. Yeah, but Mo, what was he WEARING???

I've been enjoying her slams against the Chimp and Co, but now that the Dem primaries are getting underway she's back to her old self. Last week's piece on Clark's sweater was classic "earth tones" crap.