Dowd Approvingly Quotes New Republic's Leon Wieseltier: Hillary Is "Like Some Hellish Housewife"
October 1, 2007 -- 10:51 AM EST // //
In her latest column on Hillary, Maureen Dowd quotes New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier as follows:
Others do not underestimate her relentlessness. As Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, once told me: “She’s never going to get out of our faces. ... She’s like some hellish housewife who has seen something that she really, really wants and won’t stop nagging you about it until finally you say, fine, take it, be the damn president, just leave me alone.”Hellish housewife?
You don't have to like Hillary -- a Yale law grad and twice-elected U.S. Senator who is the first woman with a reasonable shot at becoming President -- to find this a tad off-putting. To the likes of Dowd this will sound soooo earnest and soooo tedious. But it really is worth marveling at that America's premiere female political columnist is quoting this approvingly.
Of course, this isn't all that surprising when you consider that in the same column Dowd also wrote:
The town is divided into two camps: those who think that, after 16 years of Hillary pushing herself forward, the public will get worn out and reject her, and those who think that, after 16 years of Hillary pushing herself forward, the public will get worn down and give in to her.Yuk-ity-yuk-ity-yuk...yuk...
...yuk...
Mightn't voters make up their mind whether to back Hillary based on, like, you know, what she's saying about the issues during the campaign, rather than based on their reaction to her "nagging"? Naaah. Not possible. Not possible, at any rate, to anyone in Maureen's "town." Remember, your D.C. pundits can always be relied on to confuse their own vapidity and frivolity with that of the public. Standard operating procedure, ladies and gents.
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