To quote a colleague: “The does-the-candidate-bowl-and-drink-
beer-in-a-masculine-seeming-way? approach to political punditry is [Maureeen Dowd’s] one move—never mind that it’s been shown, as clearly as possible, to be facile and destructive. But really, what does that matter when you’ve got a New York Times column to write?”

Yeah.

Back in March, Dowd’s Obama was “effete.” Today, she goes for something more vivid, likening him to a “diffident debutante.”

Not yet up to Al Gore is “practically lactating” snuff. But give her time. There are a lot of Wednesdays and Sundays between now and November 4.