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Arkansas Granny

(31,476 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 11:49 AM Feb 2017

The Downfall of Kellyanne Conway

As Kellyanne Conway sleepwalks her way through a series of increasingly embarrassing interviews, it’s been hard not to feel sorry for her. It was difficult not to feel bad for her when “Saturday Night Live” depicted her as a craven hack driven to “Fatal Attraction”-style debasement by a desire to appear on the news. When the cast of “Morning Joe” pointed out that Ms. Conway’s recent appearances on news shows proved her a useless source of information, when they sneered at Ms. Conway’s apparent White House ostracization, it was difficult to not feel stirrings of sympathy.

But I can’t feel sorry for her. Not anymore.
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I liked watching her speak then. I watched her the way a person might stand at the kitchen window and watch a raccoon abscond with the first tomato of spring. I didn’t agree with what she was doing, but I admired her chutzpah.
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Ms. Conway made her bed. And now it’s time for her to get some sleep.

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The Downfall of Kellyanne Conway (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Feb 2017 OP
Really? Lotusflower70 Feb 2017 #1
Conway is no victim. She relished those moments when she could "punch down." Eyeball_Kid Feb 2017 #3
Agreed Lotusflower70 Feb 2017 #4
I hope she will be a victim of her 25 year vendetta against the Clintons. Kahuna7 Feb 2017 #2
Same here.. 2naSalit Feb 2017 #5
Thanks for the welcome, but I'm not new. I had to Kahuna7 Feb 2017 #7
Ahhh! 2naSalit Feb 2017 #8
She went the Joe McCarthy route Zambero Feb 2017 #6

Lotusflower70

(3,077 posts)
1. Really?
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 11:51 AM
Feb 2017

I never felt sorry for her. There is no reason to. She is absolutely insufferable. She is all look at me, look at me. But when you look, you see how clueless she really is.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,398 posts)
3. Conway is no victim. She relished those moments when she could "punch down."
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 11:59 AM
Feb 2017

She's a bully who goes ecstatic when she can shove hatred into the faces of the vanquished.

Lotusflower70

(3,077 posts)
4. Agreed
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:21 PM
Feb 2017

She seems bitter and angry to me. She would step on anyone who tries to get in her way. She looks the exposure in regard to publicity but then she is exposed as the twit she really is. She spews hate and venom like a reflex.

Kahuna7

(2,531 posts)
2. I hope she will be a victim of her 25 year vendetta against the Clintons.
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 11:57 AM
Feb 2017

She hasn't truly suffered enough to satisfy me.

Kahuna7

(2,531 posts)
7. Thanks for the welcome, but I'm not new. I had to
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:26 PM
Feb 2017

register after the election day hack because I couldn't remember the email address I registered with 15 years ago.

2naSalit

(85,639 posts)
8. Ahhh!
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:32 PM
Feb 2017

That makes sense, I remembered mine because I don't stay logged in and require login each time I reopen my browser. All I had to do was create a new password.

Zambero

(8,953 posts)
6. She went the Joe McCarthy route
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:56 PM
Feb 2017

At first people would listen to her. Little by little her credibility slipped away. It's game over, no redemption, and no going back.

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