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Liberal NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd had this to say on Letterman last night (no link – transcribed from a recording):
Dave: Just tell me your thoughts generally about the Democratic candidate first. What about John Kerry? What comes to your mind there?
Maureen: Lame. I think – just very very lame. [Laughter, applause.]
Dave: You said “lame”, is that right? Lame? Uh-huh. And what about him is lame?
Maureen: Well, he, for instance the swift boat thing—you’ve got a President who spent the Vietnam war defending Texas from Oklahoma, [laughter] and a Vice-President who got four deferments because he had other priorities, most of which seem to be making his wife pregnant so he could get more deferments, and somehow they’ve managed to paint the war hero as a war criminal, and it took him weeks and weeks to respond. And even now he’s not as mad as he should be.
... Dave: And what will come of this issue now as the campaign goes forward? Anything? Is it done? Is it finished?
Maureen: The swift boat? No. they just seem to be stuck, the whole campaign is stuck in the 60’s
... Dave: But i do notice now that we don’t hear much from [Teresa]. Do you think that they’ve muzzled her?
Maureen: No. No. There was a big Kerry fund raiser in the Hamptons last weekend and Teresa is always called upon to introduce her husband and, but sometimes she forgets to mention him or forgets he’s onstage and she gets lost in the thicket of her own fascinating background. [Laughter.] So she was going on about herself for 20 minutes. And after 20 minutes she finally said, oh, oh, and now i’d like to introduce my husband John Kerry. and someone in the audience screamed out, “Well go ahead, already!” [Laughter.] So I think she’s gonna be a barrel of fun.
... Dave: Do you think, looking at it right now, John Kerry can overcome his “lameness”?
Maureen: Looking at it right now, I don’t think so, no.
Dave: Is that right?
Maureen: I don’t know. Unless he can really pick up the pace.
You know the Kerry campaign is in serious trouble when Maureen Dowd finds it necessary to shoot holes in it.
