Anti-Dowdist movement

If you think that George W. Bush and Sarah Palin received fair treatment from the press in the past, you need read no further.  If you saw treatment even resembling 'fair,' stop here.

The Dowd in the blog title refers to Maureen Dowd, who does a regular op-ed for the New York Times.  Read her pieces and you will see the ultimate in snooty, mean-spirited, elitist, bitchiness, with a touch of arrogant, nose in the air, humor. You don't have to believe me.  The elitist press and her friends describe her the same way.  They are proud of Maureen and love to feed her gossip at Upper Manhattan cocktail parties.

I believe, and I predict, that Sarah Palin intends to gather the popular sentiment of America into a new movement that I call Anti-Dowdism.  Palin is the perfect leader for such a movement.   Sarah Palin is a mother, deeply blue collar working class and good looking. She already has the support of roughly 40% of the public based on 2008 polls.  If she runs on an anti-Dowd platform, I believe she will become the modern version of Andrew Jackson.

I think she only needs to start each speech with a selection of the previous week's venomous attacks on her. She can be the tar baby that the hatred of the Left punches and finds that it only destroys them.  

The American public does not like the bile that comes out of the mainstream press when it is attacking the American military, decent hard working people or American religiosity.  That American distaste for the media is, I believe, more than enough to build a modern movement.  I believe it has been tapped before by Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Perot and G. W. Bush.

Comments

[David]

Resigning as governor is a definite huge negative. But Palin can redeem herself by becoming the leader of the opposition, the anti-Obama. And she can do that by becoming the leader of the tea party movement, the way that Gore took over leadership of the anti-global-warming movement.

Palin and Obama are similar enough that they would be seen as natural opposites ("opposites" are usually similar in every way but one). I think that the media would love to go along with the plan, and make the next three-and-a-half years into a Obama/Palin duel.

I haven't seen this echoed anywhere on the web - and I've looked. Am I missing something?

[Ayrdale]

You are right. The venom and hatred of Palin is directly proportional to the fear the left feel about her appeal. She can use that hatred, and she will, as the institutions that belittle and fear her are in turn despised by the electorate.

[Mo MoDo]

Maureen Dowd is funny and nails Palin perfectly. To say otherwise is just petty sour grapes that Ann Coulter is a shriveled unfunny shrew.