Maureen Dowd, whose high school photo still accompanies her New York Times column, went off on a very revealing rant in her Sunday column.
The subject was those awful Republican women, but the column said much more about the columnist than it did about its supposed subject.
Call us armchair psychologists if you wish, but we believe Dowd’s column titled “Republican Mean Girls” was really about the angst of her high school years:
“Jan, Meg, Carly, Sharron, Linda, Michele, Queen Bee Sarah and sweet wannabe Christine — have co-opted and ratcheted up the disgust with the status quo that originally buoyed Barack Obama,” Dowd says.
“Whether they’re mistreating the help or belittling the president’s manhood, making snide comments about a rival’s hair or ripping an opponent for spending money on a men’s fashion show, the Mean Girls have replaced Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold.”
And here’s the money line: Those Republicans women are “grown-up versions of those teenage tormentors who would steal your boyfriend, spray-paint your locker and, just for good measure, spread rumors that you were pregnant.”
How bad were your high school years, liberal nerd girl? Why is it still so important that you were you a member of the audio-visual club, that you went to the prom with your cousin and that you never got to sit at the cool kids’ table in the cafeteria?
Oh, and one more thing: How long did that “Maureen is pregnant” rumor go on?
Source: New York Times
