Bush strategist looks back in sadness - Views Bush with anguish and contempt

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Bush strategist looks back in sadness

Matthew Dowd helped win the White House. Now he views the administration with a mixture of anguish and contempt.

By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

November 14, 2007

WIMBERLY, TEXAS -- Matthew Dowd knows sorrow and loss. He has been divorced twice. A daughter died two months after she was born. And then there is the added heartbreak -- a word he uses -- of his split with President Bush.

Dowd, 46, is one of the nation's leading political strategists, a onetime Democrat who switched sides to help put Bush in the White House, then win a second term. He spent years shaping and promoting Bush's policies -- policies that Dowd now views with a mixture of anguish and contempt.

He began expressing his disillusionment, tentatively at first, at a UC Berkeley conference in January. Since then, he has grown more forceful.

I hope he can't look in a mirror without retching.

He is looking for his place in the world now, I believe...

Fascinating article!

you are officially stained with the red W.

Musta been somebody else who helped install this nightmare. Twice.

Burn in hell jerk....

Fuck guys like this that didn't see through jr upfront.

Nah, burn in hell.

"Do you lose sleep at night knowing that you gave this country probably the worst administration we've ever had?" asked a young man. "I mean, have you thought about maybe trying to save your soul by calling for impeachment?"

Dowd tensed and leaned forward. Rather than defend Bush, he spoke of the oldest of his three sons, an Army language specialist then facing deployment to Iraq. "Now, am I a person who stays up at night thinking about that? Yeah. . . .

A completely transparent sign of the times here. He must not dissent to keep his son alive. And this is the person who worked FOR Bush.