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Matthew Dowd's conversions from democrat to republican and then back to democrat, smacks of political opportunism of the worst kind. Where was his moral meter when he unleashed republican dirty tricks, what did he ever see in George W. Bush while governor of Texas, that convinced him that Bush was the man for both democrats and republicans? Did he not know that during Bush's tenure as governor, capital punishment reached its ugly zenith? Did he not know that Texas was on its way to a prison economy as George W. Bush crowded jails, prisons and penitentiaries with offenders (mostly minorities) that kept the capitalist engines greased with free labor? And was "every child" really living a tenth of Bush's opportunities? When I read his mea culpa in the NYT I had to barf. Who was he trying to assuage but the mean spirited republicans who saw welfare mothers as freeloaders while cheerleading the freeloadings of Kenneth Lay and Enron at the expense of the taxpayers; the demonizing of the Arab world while expediting the "rapture" for the second coming, so christians could bring "democracy" even if they had to kill every last Islamist in Iraq and Afghanistan; Oh please Matthew Dowd, people like you should just go away and find fame and fortune elsewhere. Who knows where he will hang his hat should the democrats remain spineless and let the republican machine mow them down again.
