New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says "Conquistadora" Hillary Clinton will "finish off" Republicans in 2016.
The top rated columnist says that Republicans are getting weaker every presidential election cycle because of their refusal to change.
In the piece entitled "A Lost Civilization," she compares the end of the world prediction in 2012 by a Mayan prophecy to the self-destruction of the Republican Party.
She says, "The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys.
"Just another vanishing tribe that fought the cultural and demographic tides of history."
She goes on to say the decline of the Republican party "will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count."
Dowd says President Obama's victory over Romney didn't stop on election night. She says Obama is still beating him.
"The G.O.P. put up a candidate that no one liked or understood and ran a campaign that no one liked or understood — a campaign animated by the idea that indolent, grasping serfs must be kept down, even if it meant creating barriers to letting them vote," she says.
Continuing her analogy, she ends saying, "But history will no doubt record that withering Republicans were finally wiped from the earth in 2016 when the relentless (and rested) Conquistadora Hillary marched in, General Bill on a horse behind her, and finished them off.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.tom00001 | Dec 15, 2012, 10:22 PM EST
The "Great Communicator" a.k.a.Thacthers lackey is the one who brought this mess down on the country with his relentless pursuit of less taxes on the richand business and the weakening of government regulation of finance.
misneac | Dec 14, 2012, 06:02 PM EST
I wish the likes of Stevenstar would keep out of Irish affairs . For his information Gerry Adams seems to have gotten somewhere ,he sits in the National Parliament ! As for poor Madeliene she seems to have a problem with spelling !!!!
seanomelb | Dec 14, 2012, 05:32 PM EST
Madeliene you are an unfortunate human being and I use the term lightly.
Madeliene | Dec 13, 2012, 08:01 PM EST
Hillary Clinton is a LIAR and a TRAITOR and willl finish off NO Republican Conservatve In America ! We want our Country resored form the ignorant, greeddy, envious liberals, and NO MORE Kennedy's, and NO MORE CKLINTONS!
pilib04 | Dec 13, 2012, 06:07 PM EST
Someone tell Stevenstar not to shout please! Also doubt very much StevieS has ever even been to Ireland. If he was familiar with Ireland he would know that Gerry Adams is quite popular and topped the poll in Louth/East Meath!
pilib04 | Dec 13, 2012, 06:03 PM EST
Writing the obituary for the Republican party might be a tad early. Predicting that the Republicans will repeat the mistakes of 08 and 12 is just common sense.
HotGlobe | Dec 13, 2012, 04:27 AM EST
That's the story, but don't worry, Republicans aren't capable of seeing themselves and doing something about it. You can show a bulldog a mirror, but it won't make him wipe the slobber off his jowls.
plynchhayes | Dec 12, 2012, 08:09 PM EST
One can only hope!
seanomelb | Dec 11, 2012, 06:41 PM EST
Autotarveler fails to balance his pro GOP sentiments by naming any 'Polarizing" republicans like Boehner and co. and the Teaparty wannabes who lost their seats in the 2012 election. As far as Rice is concerned she was the subject of a vicious attack by "polarizing" senators (Cain and Grahame). Republicans find POTUS a "polarizing" figure therfore using the emotional term "polarizing" means little or nothing.
STEVENSTAR | Dec 11, 2012, 01:59 PM EST
IRISH REPUBLICANS ARE A DYING BREED THANK GOD AND NOW WE ALL WANT TO LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE.. IM IRISH I LOVE MY COUNTRY AND I LOVE MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN THE UK ... I WISH AMERICANS WOULD KEEP OUT OF IRISH AFFAIRS... EVEN WITH PEOPLE LIKE GERRY ADAMS WHILE HIS GOTTEN NOWHERE HERE IN IRELAND HIS STILL POPULAR IN AMERICA AND THAT TELLS ME ALL AMERICANS SHOULD MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS UNLESS YOU WERE BORN HERE IN IRELAND
feeneycj | Dec 11, 2012, 10:40 AM EST
in saying the GOP world would It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. Bobby Jindal is Indian American, Marco Rubio is Cuban American, Herman Cain is black, etc. Maureen is in fact the one who refuses to change and demonstrates selection. Maureen likes to hawk the mantra of the day which of course is believed by those who voted for Obama. But I can assure you, zero interest rates are NOT normal. We're $16.3 trillion in debt and Democrats are pushing for more debt and that is NOT normal. 47 million people are on food stamps. True unemployment is around 20%. We have a savings rate that around a pitiful 3.7%. At least half the country is shocked and dismayed by the irresponsibility of the Democrats, the other half of the country voted for Obama and is passing marijuana laws by state.
barneyjo | Dec 11, 2012, 02:51 AM EST
You Guys are all missing the trick here!! Oh sure Hilary would like to be President; but who says that its automatically the chair in the Oval Office. Why not the chair in the Aras? Why has she made the unique offer to the people of Ireland to be their advocate when she leaves her current office? Watch this space :)
jetsnoone | Dec 11, 2012, 01:11 AM EST
If the Republicans can nominate somebody that can express their positions in an intelligent manner, they could win.... McCain and Romney could not speak at all. The two Bushes made it despite speech problems...Speaking well could be Chris Christie. All you gotta do is listen and learn from The Great Commmunicator Ronald Reagan.
connemaragirl | Dec 11, 2012, 12:30 AM EST
i have my doubts that Hillary will run in 2016,though I know many people want her to, as for finishing off the Republicans turn about would only be fair-play,they certainly tried very hard to finish off Bill Clinton and almost destroyed his marriage.Boy has he disappointed them,he's more popular now than ever.
autotraveler | Dec 10, 2012, 06:46 PM EST
Then there's the US mid-term elections in 2014. They might well follow the 2010 elections which put the US House of Representatives strongly in GOP control. If the US economy doesn't recover, expect that not only will the House stay in GOP hands, but the lessons learned in 2012, with respect to putting up poor candidates in Senate races, the US Senate is likely to fall into GOP hands as well. Then there's the little issue that Ms. Kelly seemed to ignore, that 30 of the 50 state governors are Republicans and many state legislatures are in Republican hands. Far from being dead, as Ms. Dowd would seem to suggest, the GOP will lick their 2012 wounds, learn from their mistakes, and most likely come roaring back in 2014, as they did in 2010, and be well positioned for the 2016 presidential elections. Ms. Clinton is a flawed candidate, one who carries much of the same baggage that Gov. Romney did in 2012. She represents the past and if found complicit in the Libyan cover up, she will be all but unelectable in 2016. Plus there are many younger potential Democratic candidates waiting in the wings, like candidate Obama did in 2008, that will have no reservations in taking her down as he did in 2008. Richard Truesdell California, USA
autotraveler | Dec 10, 2012, 06:45 PM EST
I'll try to post my comments in shorter bits. The next time you make a prediction like this, find someone other than Maureen Dowd to base it on, and someone who knows something about the politics of US elections. First, Secretary Clinton is a very polarizing politician, almost half the US population won't vote for her under ANY circumstances (the same problem faced by Gov. Romney in the just concluded election). Second, she will be grilled in January over her involvement in the Libya cover up and it's likely that she will have been found to be complicit in the cover up as many Americans question why it was Ambassador Rice, not Secretary Clinton that was the Obama Administration point person in the days following the attack. Secretary Clinton is a shrewd politician and was smart enough to know that what Ambassador Rice was saying was a fairy tale, and wanted no part of it.
autotraveler | Dec 10, 2012, 06:43 PM EST
The writer has little knowledge of US election politics. I have three times tried to post a multi-point detailed response to this ill-conceived article, but it won't load, maybe because it is too long.
mairint | Dec 10, 2012, 06:01 PM EST
Same colour, same feminasties, same pro-aborts, same unbridled ambition, sure why would'nt they prop each other up?
seanomelb | Dec 10, 2012, 04:28 PM EST
The good old teaparty guttersnipes types are having a field day. Maybe if they ponder on the essence of what O'Dowd wrote and took an intropsective look at there party they may then realise they are on the wrong side of history. The GOP hymn book needs updating,but who has the guts to do it.
Smyrnian | Dec 10, 2012, 03:42 PM EST
Yes, Sean, and her years as NY State senator produced absolutely nothing for the people of NY!
seanofeic | Dec 10, 2012, 03:09 PM EST
Theres many a slip twixt a cup and a lip. Hopefully some fresh blood will come along instead of tired old hillary baggage. Hillary and her carpetbagger friends and big money corporate sponsors and her grade c journalist hacks at publications like irish central will not be enough to "install" her into the white house in 2016. Shes had her day in the sun and had no real positive impact as Sec of State. Put her out to pasture please...
Smyrnian | Dec 10, 2012, 02:28 PM EST
She is a waster.
PhlutiePhan | Dec 10, 2012, 01:22 PM EST
As a conservative Navy vet who voted for McCain and Romney, it is more than obvious that Howdy Dowdy is more than right. Malachi Brendan Martin foretold the truth of the deterioration of the morality of a once proud nation in the name of world socialism. Hillary is a radical thespian on the world stage who is dictating to the "opiate of the people" and Gerry Adams is one of her disciples.
tom/peggy | Dec 10, 2012, 12:18 PM EST
Dowd is a far left ideologue. Her opinion is irrelevant. Hillary finished off Obama in 2008, no wait he rolled over her.
Joe Kelsall | Dec 10, 2012, 12:12 PM EST
Demographics have seen off the Republicans!
FastEddy | Dec 10, 2012, 11:28 AM EST
She is done, she if toast ... Gun walking to the towelheads, too much baggage
irishman70 | Dec 10, 2012, 11:09 AM EST
Typical Dowd. Come 2016 MD will still be a BAG, but HC will be a OLD BAG. And BHO will be Dictator In Chief
handsome68 | Dec 10, 2012, 10:49 AM EST
It appears from this article that Ms. O'Dowd wants a Nazification of America. One Party Uber Alles. Her naiveté is why she keeps getting her thoughtless articles published in the newspaper which prints "all the liberally slanted news that fits we print". I know well she is a favorite of many of youse liberal omadhauns.
johnozed | Dec 10, 2012, 10:12 AM EST
Yes yes, Republicans get all freaked out. Fun to watch. Perhaps if Maureen is correct the meltdown on the right will be spectacular. True, not all Democrats like her, but they will vote for her before they vote for any tea party/GOP lackey. And Katieherk, she bothers to write because she has a column and that is what she does. And gaelicpiper, don't hold yer breathe it would make playing the flute that much more difficult.
jamieLM | Dec 10, 2012, 09:58 AM EST
What rock is Dowd living under? Almost half (47.9%?) of the country voted for Romney and not ALL Dems love Hillary. What a stupid thing to say about Hillary "finishing off" anyone. Politics is more complicated than that and no one knows what the financial/econmic climate will look like by 2016: meaning how far in debt we'll be by then. If, as a country, we're in worse shape than we are now, Hillary won't be "finishing off" anyone. If she chooses to run, she'll have to work her a** off just to get the Dem nomination.
Irishphotograph | Dec 10, 2012, 09:54 AM EST
Gaelicpiper----the same buthead that the Americans voted twice to be their President? Both political parties are two sides of the same coin. The USA need Leaders not Politicians. I think once the Mexicans made their Right to Return to California. That a Latino whose first language is Spanish with broken English. Should be President of the USA. This would be good for all in America. Displaying tolerance and diversity, true American values. :). Otherwise Gaelic lead the European Americans back to Europe and live the life as immigrants in our countries. :)
katieherk | Dec 10, 2012, 09:45 AM EST
Why does she even bother writing? Ms. Dowd is so irresponsible and ultra liberal that she'll say anything to get her name in print. What a loser.... along with the Clintons and Nobamas. Oh, BTW, what about Malia's trip costing over 1 million bucks? And we're going over the cliff.... puleeze!
Gaelicpiper | Dec 10, 2012, 08:55 AM EST
Dowd is an idiot. The OLD COW, Hillary, will not even enter the primary. Her connection to Buthead O'Bumma has destroyed her political future.