Comments on: Bush Inner Circle Defection

by: marijam

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:19:20 +0000

What a stupid fool. I knew from the moment I saw Bush sneer at Karla Faye that he wasn’t what he was made out to be by his campaign.

by: John Palcewski

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:14:58 +0000

You’ll notice that Dowd clams up when it comes to Karl Rove. Everyone knows–including the editorial board of The New York Times–that Karl is behind every single immoral, illegal, and traitorous move the administration has ever made. What does Karl have on Dowd and virtually everyone else? It must be something big, and important. I mean really big. Otherwise how can you possibly explain Karl’s embarrassingly horrid public display the other night? That’s how a man acts when he KNOWS there’s nothing in the world anyone can ever do to him. That’s what we’ve come to. Allowing fat fascists to get away with murder.

by: biggerbox

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:21:12 +0000

I submit that the first step in actually trying to re-establish gentleness in the world would have been to actually try talking to Bush and Rove, to bring them toward the light? I’d believe his conversion declaration more if he’d actually tried to influence his co-conspirators. But he admits he hasn’t spoken about this to the President, and hasn’t spoken to Rove in months.

I mean, I know it wouldn’t have done any good, but Dowd claims he actually believed W was a compassionate conservative, so it seems odd to me he didn’t even try appealing to Bush’s ‘better side’.

He also seems awfully slow on the uptake. It wasn’t until W snubbed Cindy Sheehan that the coin dropped? And what, exactly, has he been doing since then? Come on! He’ll have to do a lot better than this lackadaisical “my bad.”

by: RevmarOK

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:42:55 +0000

Here comes the expected vilification of Matthew Dowd (as it did with David Kuo with the publication of his book, Tempting Faith.)
Woe to anyone who exposes (further) the absolute ineptitude of the Bush administration.

by: Swami

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:14:37 +0000

He’s a day late and a dollar short. If he really wants an effective repentance maybe he should publicly detail a full accounting the frauds and deceptions he was a party to. He might delude himself think it was only Kerry who he screwed over, but in order to get to Kerry he had to consciously screw over America. His repentance seems based more on his political failing than his moral failings.

by: whig

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:45:33 +0000

A good example I thought of for someone who repented and made good is David Brock.

by: The Gun Toting Liberal™

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:20:02 +0000

Trusted Bush Advisor Mathew Dowd Challenges The Administration.

In a display of leftist defeatism, former Bush chief campaign strategist Mathew Dowd, active member of Mr. Bush’s political brain trust and dedicated company man, has publicly expressed opposition to Mr. Bush’s leadership, denial of the validity …

by: c u n d gulag

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:06:51 +0000

Here’s where I differ from most of you:
Where we are at as a country is not the result of incompetence, but of design and neglect.
I’m not saying it was ALL planned. Some of it was just allowed to happen. “Jazz” politic’s by, and for, the crazy theocrat’s and corporate interest’s. Their improvised riff’s still fill the air and drown out all logic…
Dowd was a new member of the band. He was told what notes to play. He wasn’t told about the whole piece. Where it was going. He was told, “Hit the cymbal (symbol) here!”. And he did…
Now, with his own skin in the game (his son), he realizes that it’s not Satchmo’s Band that he’s joined, but the Cotillion for Corporatism, War, and Profit Band that he’s shilling for…
A late rude awadening is better than none…
Still, I have no respect for him. It didn’t take a trainspotter to see this trainwreck coming…

by: whig

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:14:55 +0000

I agree with justme that those who make mistakes have a responsibility to correct him. I always consider an apology a good start, and from there it remains to demonstrate true repentence through action. I will not condemn or judge him so long as he does that. If he thinks he is entitled through dint of his misaligned experience to run for office of trust or profit, I would say no, absolutely not, and nor should he take a position which will compensate him for having been wrong. Do what is right, and then build from there.

by: justme

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:57:47 +0000

Ok, so we all know I tend to have a low tolerance for BS….but these people take the friggin cake.Mr.Dowds sudden awakening is indeed quaint ….but that don’t cut it with me.

These “people” know what the hell is going on.They have the inside info to stop this administration in their friggin tracks and yet they choose to come out with this whiny wussy hand wringing crap???..If your an administration insider and you think supporting bush or a party is more important that saving the country with the information you could bring forward don’t expect anything from me but being spit upon as you pass me.

Saying “oops I made a mistake and trusted a jerk” is nice and all but it is not enough.The reality based crowd understands that once you made a mess like bush it isn’t enough to say “oops” , YOU HAVE TO THEN CLEAN UP THE DAMN MESS!!!!!Any idiot can make a mess, but don’t tell me about it until you have fixed it.Talk to the hand, dowd.If you want credit for having courage you actually HAVE to show some.

Dowd doesn’t need to tell us how bad the bushies have screwed things up.. we already know that..we need to know how those who enabled him intend to mend this nation