Maureen Dowd called Paul Ryan the 'Irish Undertaker"...it is an apt fit

[Demonaut]

He fits my imagination as looking like an undertaker

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miss-spelled words ruin the intent


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[Cha]

1. Who's this Nacy Dowd I agree with? A wannabe Irish Undertaker..

Mahalo, Demonaut

[dweller]

2. Maureen Dowd

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/donald-this-i-will-tell-you.html?_r=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F10028853160

[Cha]

5. Oh, Maureen.. Mahalo, dweller!

[NanceGreggs]

3. Paul Ryan is ...

... who Eddie Haskell grew up to be.

[Warpy]

4. He'd rub his hands together and giggle whenever someone died

so he'd starve to death as an undertaker. Undertakers need to act lugubrious and sympathetic.

[OnDoutside]

6. That's so accurate ! In his Ill fitting suit....

[Generic Other]

7. I am more inclined to think of him as the undead (no soul)

[Mdoherty]

8. Dowd's stolen undertaker

Maureen Dowd stole the line from the Irish writer/journalist Dermot McEvoy. When she first used it 5 years ago, she gave him credit. Here's the original Dowd usage. (Sept 3, 2012)

"As the writer Dermot McEvoy noted, Ryan has “the so-sincere, so-phoney air of a gloomy Irish undertaker standing outside the funeral parlour where you’ve come to plant your mother, shaking his head consolingly and giving you that firm two-handed Irish handshake.”

She's a good enough writer on her own without having to take others' lines. Dermon McEvoy has the perfect description of Ryan, though. It's just great.