James Moore has a trenchant essay on Matthew Dowd's departure from the Bush camp at Huffington Post. Moore's main argument is that what Matthew Dowd loved about George Bush was the thought that Bush would serve as Dowd's own vehicle to power. In my opinion, Bush looked like an attractive blank slate for people like Matthew Dowd, Mark MacKinnon (Bush's other chief pollster for 2000, now working for John McCain), Dick Cheney, and Condoleeza Rice to write on. As a result, they all hitched their ambitions onto their love of George Bush.
My main thought about Dowd, however, is that his phony apostasy from Bush is a reflection of the renewed power of liberal narratives in American political life. Sensing that he was on the losing side of the moral debate and political struggle, Dowd decided to bolt back to the liberal side.
As far as I'm concerned, Bush can have him.
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