I'm no fan of Maureen Dowd's but . . .
Oct. 8th, 2008 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthog. . . the concluding sentence of her NYT piece the other day about Sarah Palin's various homicidal attacks upon vocabulary, grammar and (in the larger sense) syntax deserves mention. It is a very simple observation that should be made more often:
True mavericks don’t brand themselves.
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Date: 2008-10-09 01:26 am (UTC)Ah but Louie, you underestimate me. I did in fact know this.
Furthermore, the descendants of Samuel have put up a website in which they bitterly condemn the use of their family name by the McCain-Palin ticket. Apparently Samuel (or perhaps his son; it was a few weeks ago I exoplored the site) was a radical politician who'd have spat on right-wingers of any stripe.
*cocky omniscient swagger*
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Date: 2008-10-09 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 01:47 am (UTC)"I keep waiting for Palin to get a dose of unaccustomed honesty and say, "Maverick? Maverick? I can't even spell the word . . ."
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Date: 2008-10-09 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 02:04 am (UTC)I'll not mis-underestimate you again ;-)
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Date: 2008-10-09 02:24 am (UTC)"I'll not mis-underestimate you again ;-)"
You betcha!
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Date: 2008-10-09 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 01:11 pm (UTC)*bows*