Hillary Clinton mocks columnist Maureen Dowd for forgetting 2016 presidential ticket had a woman and man
Earth to Maureen Dowd: Hillary Clinton is a woman and her running mate, Tim Kaine, is a man.
The two-time Democratic presidential candidate and her wingman skewered Dowd on Saturday for apparently forgetting all about them in a New York Times column about mixed-gender White House tickets.
Dowd’s column was designed to point out the sexist absurdity of women being so scarce on the presidential campaign scene, as Biden is poised to choose a woman as his running mate for the 2020 election.
Clinton jokingly accused the New York Times writer of eating “too much pot brownie before writing her column.”
Kaine quoted the Stephen Sondheim classic “I’m still here” to make his point.
Dowd originally claimed that the Biden ticket would be the first Democratic ticket including a man and a woman since Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro for their losing 1984 White House bid.
“To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite expression, ‘Gimme a break!‘” Dowd exclaimed in the column.
That account inexplicably left out Hillary Clinton’s more historic bid with Kaine at her side in 2016. They lost to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
Dowd later tweaked her column to clarify that the 2020 race would be the first time a man has chosen a woman as his vice presidential candidate since Mondale did so.
But in 2008, John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate on the GOP ticket.
The column gaffe is the latest black eye for the Gray Lady’s opinion section.
Opinion editor James Bennet quit a few months ago after running a much-criticized column by right-wing Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) advocating for a military crackdown on racial justice protesters.
Then conservative columnist Bari Weiss resigned last month, claiming her views made her a target for intolerable abuse from liberal colleagues.
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